As the author of said book, seems like a reply might be good. Unfortunately, I just didn't think to save the files as .ma format... do'h! They are Maya 6 .mb files and cannot be opened on earlier versions. However, full-version Maya 6 files ARE openable on the provided Maya 6 PLE... but not vice versa. At least, that's…
Hm. Well, can't argue with the logic, though I don't enjoy HAVING to use Maya 6 PLE when I've already got Maya 5 working fine. I guess it's not a big deal since I'll only be using up time and hard drive space to install 6 PLE. NoSeRider, I'm unfamiliar with using ASCII files. Can you explain? The files from the cd are all…
Alright. I haven't installed 6 PLE yet but I'll get on that. Once a file is saved as a .ma format how do you go about converting it to ASCII? Converting it is probably more trouble than it's worth though... at least after getting 6 installed in the first place.
The files have to have the *.ma extension when saved in Maya. You'll have to find Maya 6 and convert them to ASCII....then bring them home and edit them with notepad to be accessable for Maya 5.
Wait a minute, wait a minute....WAIT A MINUTE!! You can access Maya 5 files from Maya 6 and vise versa if the Maya files are saved in ASCII format! It requires editing the ASCII file in a text software like notepad. I'll give you an example, if you have ASCII files.
Hey there, since Polycount is where I first saw the information about this book I figure this is a good place to ask a question about it. I just got the book delivered from Amazon yesterday but have found that none of the Maya files that came on the cd are working for me. I'm assuming at this point the reason is that I'm…
Nope, sorry. 3D format files for major applications are rarely backward compatible. I do remember you mentioning in a previous post that you were focusing on low-poly modeling for games at the moment. You can always install the latest edition of Maya PLE to take advantage of these example files. You don't have to uninstall…
[ QUOTE ] I'm assuming at this point the reason is that I'm running Maya 5 and these files will only work with Maya 6 (full version or PLE). [/ QUOTE ] Can't use PLE, has to be full version of Maya. When you open the ASCII file with Wordpad or some text editor, this what it looks like: <font class="small">Code:</font><hr…