Hi, Is there a sollution to export a walktrough?

Can you tell us a lot more detail about exactly what you are trying to do?
For a start, export to what or where?

OK, that depends on how you need this to work, there are two main ways, not sure which you want.
One is interactive, so the client can walk around the building and control his movement like in a game. This means exporting the model to a program/game engine that will do this. To be honest, that’s not the sort of work I’m into, don’t know much about that, but the subject has been discussed here before. If that’s waht you want, seach the forums, or someone with more experience with that may help.
The other way is to render out an animation of a walkthrough. That’s more about rendering than exporting. You will animate the camera along a path you define through the building. Then render it to an image sequence. After rendering you can encode the frames into a video file (AVI MOV MPG WMV MP4 etc...) that your client can play, or encode and burn it to DVD or other media.

If you are looking for the game type, one great program is Unity.
There is a $200 solution that has everything you would need,
though for some more advanced type stuff there is a pro version ($1500).
You can download a thirty day trial of the Indie version or the Pro (write the sales department of the company).
There is also a great forum with lots of help.
And good online documentation and resources.

Max 2012
Windows 7 64 SP1

is there not a simpler way to do this?

G4u1 17 June 2009 01:52 AM

is there not a simpler way to do this?

We still don’t know which type of export you need.
If it is a rendered walkthrough video you want, there is nothing simpler. Rendering your models is a simple everyday process that all Max users do, except those working in games, who will export the other way, to a game engine.
If you just want to export a 3D model to a format anyone can view, not an interactive game-like walkthrough, there is the Autodesk .DWF format. Max can export these and they can be viewed by anyone with the free DWF viewer software installed, I think they call it Design Review now.
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=4086277
With this the client can view a model, rotate it in the viewport, zoon in/out, show/hide parts of the model. It’s sort of like a read only 3D equivelent of a PDF.