Is it possible to open 64bit file in 3d max 32bit?
I've created some easy object in 3d max 64 bit. But I'm on holiays right now and I forgot that my laptop has Windows 32bit and 3d max 32bit.
Is it possible to open this 64bit file in some way?
The file contains simple geometry without textures etc..
Is it possible to open this 64bit file in some way?
The file contains simple geometry without textures etc..
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I would highly assume that the 32 and 64 bit max versions themselves don't relate to such issues but then again I never tried it.
Gerbeiter: I take it you've tried which means its not working for you directly. If you like you can PM me, swap emails and ill convert it to an OBJ for you(im working in 2011 64bit).
Like a lot of software it does have a problem with forward compatibility, (newer versions in older) but again that isn't a 32/64bit thing its a version issue. That is pretty common for a lot of apps.3dsmax 2011 included an option to save back to 2010 format but that's as far as the backward compatibility goes at this point. Moving forward they've said they will keep the feature alive meaning all future versions will save back to previous file formats back to 2010.
Ever since they included 32 and 64bit modes I've been switching back and forth freely without issues. Our render farm runs on 32bit and it accepts and converts 64bit jobs without a problem.
The only difference that I know of is that if you run in 32bit mode it will fail to access all of the memory in your system and cap out at the old 32bit settings. Which if you have a really heavy scene that works with 16gb of ram it might slow to a crawl in 32bit mode but that's not surprising and not a version missmatch issue.
They actually mentioned an Ascii file format for max as part of XBR. That'd be damn awesome.
Could anyone do sthg I could open it in 3dmax 32?
3dsmax4
3dsmax5
3dsmax6
3dsmax7
3dsmax8
3dsmax9
3dsmax2008
3dsmax2009
3dsmax2010
3dsmax2011
Removed the TS modifiers and exported it to an OBJ. that'll open in anything. you'll need to redo your cages.
Out of interest what does max say when you try to open that max file?
These 'TS modifiers' were problem probably.
Mark Dygert - I needed in 3dmax9 or 3dmax2009
If those versions you mentioned are the ones you tried to open the file with then that is the problem, You seem to have created the max file in max 2011(im guessing that as i didnt get an obselete file format warning). like Mark said opening old max files with new releases of max is fine but it wont work in the other direction.