Maya .smd (Source Engine) export problems

rabscuttle

Hello everyone

I'm trying to export from Maya to the Source Engine. I tried to install the .smd exporter that comes with the Source SDK. The instructions on the Valve Wiki say to edit the path to the location where your copy of maya.exe is located. I'm not sure if I'm doing this right. Can anyone confirm?

set Path=C: \Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2011\bin;%Path%

many thanks

passerby

what version of maya are you using, the exporter source provides wont work on 2011 or 2012 and i think not even 2010.

there is a community made script around too, but it is also shit.

even know maya is my main package, when it comes to source i pretty much always just export to 3ds Max or Blender to do the smd export.


edit: ya check out valves vdc page on maya https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Maya

there plug-in s olny for 2009, and the prall smd export scrpt listed there is very slow, and doesn't always work, so just use blender or max since they both got decent smd exporters.

rabscuttle

Thanks for the info. I'll switch over to one of those packages and try out their exporter.

passerby

if using max the best smd tools are these http://wallworm.com/projects/utilities/docs/ http://www.wunderboy.org/

in the case of blender there is http://code.google.com/p/blender-smd/

Archimedes

I have been struggling with exactly the same problem. I am trying to make an item for the Dota2 Workshop. Will this method also work for my scenario?

DemoSama

http://www.northcapestudios.com/blog/?p=45#Part1

How to get it to work with 2011 - 2012