3dsmax: Transfer Meshes Between Scenes

jocose

I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to transfer meshes between two open 3dsmax scenes (I have two instances of max open) without having to export a file to the HD.

Anyone know of anything?

monster

Sorry man, it's not possible.

r_fletch_r

edit: overlooking the obvious.

what are you tring to achieve. perhaps theres a simpler solution

rumblesushi

I think you can just select import from scene or something, select a max file, then pick a model from the scene.

MoP

Yeah, File -> Merge will do this (unless they renamed it in recent releases). It gives you a list of all the objects in the scene and you can choose any selection of objects to import directly from the scene.

rumblesushi

That's right MoP. It's on the Import tab, then Merge.

renderhjs

I guess it was Borislav Petrov (bobo) who suggested once about writing a maxscript (or he did somewhere, sometime) that would transfer 3d meshes or models through maxscript in max as maxscript seems to be more backwards compatible as the *.max and *.3ds formats that max comes with.

Neox

i think it was initially called "bff" back from five and you could save your max 5 files into scripts and run those in max4, not sure if he worked further on it

Eric Chadwick

BFF did work great, but has gathered a bit of dust since then.

Another way would be to save the source Max file, then create a Container or Xref in the target scene. Everytime you save the source, the target Container would be updated. If Xref, IIRC you have to manually refresh the target .