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To the .max About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. To the .max // Archive: Tech Forum 1  |   Order by default Post by btspro // Aug 13, 2007, 8:41am btspro Total Posts: 45 Is there away to import a .max object in to true space 7.51 or do you need some sort of plug-in. If so which one do I need? Post by Jack Edwards // Aug 13, 2007, 8:54am Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 From everything I've read, .max is a proprietary format and I don't think Autodesk is allowing it to be licenced for use in other apps. So the short answer is that no app can import .Max files except 3dsMax. -Jack. Post by TomG // Aug 13, 2007, 11:09am TomG Total Posts: 3397 As posted, .max is proprietary, and contains lots of info unique to Max (not just geometry etc, but scene sets ups and things). There are some conversion applications that will load and save out a .max scene, polytrans I think is one, but here is the catch - it has to have 3DS Max installed on the machine to do it. This is true of any application that can load and process .max scenes, they have to have Max installed to do it. So in other words the only way to convert a .max scene to something else is to have 3DS Max installed. Best conversion route in that case is to work with a colleague who has Max and ask them to save / export to OBJ (or perhaps .3ds). HTH! Tom Post by nowherebrain // Aug 13, 2007, 1:40pm nowherebrain Total Posts: 1062 Or, if you are made of money...you could nab "Right Hemispheres'" "Deep Exploration"...of course you will still need MAX. You also need to worry about what version you need it converted from. The .max format gets updated to keep up with the new features in the package itself. Some .max stuff for v.9 does not carry over into v.5 etc...(hair/cloth for example). Post by nub // Aug 13, 2007, 3:58pm nub Total Posts: 10 btspro, I could help you out with your conversion. Would you feel comfortable sending me the file? Rick Post by btspro // Aug 14, 2007, 9:44am btspro Total Posts: 45 Hay Nub Yes I would love the help on the conversion. Let me know how I can get it to you. Post by nub // Aug 16, 2007, 1:28pm nub Total Posts: 10 Go ahead and e-mail it to me at rbolman at hotmail dot com. We'll try that one first.

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