G’day to all

I am attempting to take a file in Maya and putting it into 3ds Max. I have only recently started using the FBX converter and am not sure what I am doing wrong. When I import it into 3ds max Nothing appears or I get an error saying “ polygon index error “.

Does anybody know what I might be missing here?

I use 3DS Max 2011 and 3DS Max 2012
Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E MB, Socket 1366, X58, 6xDDR3, RAID, 3-Way SLI, CrossFire
Processor: Intel Core i7 930 Processor LGA1366 2.8GHz 8MB Cache CPU
Hard Drives: 2 x Samsung 1TB HD103SJ Spinpoint F3
Video:  Nvidia GeForce 460 GTX 1Gb
Operating System: Windows 7
Memory: 2 x Corsair CMX6GX3M3A1600C9 6GB ( 3x XMS3 2GB ) PC-12800 ( 1600MHz ) XMSP DDR3 (so 12GB in total)
Case: Lian Li PC-B10B Black Aluminum Case
Power: Thermaltake Litepower 700W ATX PSU

G’day CarlosC

You would not believe the amount of head banging I have done recently haha. I was searching the net for days and following all instructions to the letter and was getting NOTHING. I was going insane with this haha. And you would not believe what the problem was.

I have 2 computers, one is my workhorse and one is the internet connection. I do not hook up my work pc due to that pc is my money maker and I can not afford to have any viruses or spyware added to it that shouldn’t be.

So I was taking the files out of maya as an fbx file on my internet pc and putting them onto a usb stick to then be transferred over to my work pc. It tuns out that after all my frustrations in trying to get maya files into max it was my usb stick that was the problem. The usb stick was corrupted and therefore any file I put onto it was corrupted.

I changed usb sticks today and am now able to load fbx files from maya into max :D

Thanks for your reply :)

I use 3DS Max 2011 and 3DS Max 2012
Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E MB, Socket 1366, X58, 6xDDR3, RAID, 3-Way SLI, CrossFire
Processor: Intel Core i7 930 Processor LGA1366 2.8GHz 8MB Cache CPU
Hard Drives: 2 x Samsung 1TB HD103SJ Spinpoint F3
Video:  Nvidia GeForce 460 GTX 1Gb
Operating System: Windows 7
Memory: 2 x Corsair CMX6GX3M3A1600C9 6GB ( 3x XMS3 2GB ) PC-12800 ( 1600MHz ) XMSP DDR3 (so 12GB in total)
Case: Lian Li PC-B10B Black Aluminum Case
Power: Thermaltake Litepower 700W ATX PSU

But in answer to your question I was

beginning in Maya and exporting my file as FBX, then importing this FBX file into Max.

I use 3DS Max 2011 and 3DS Max 2012
Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E MB, Socket 1366, X58, 6xDDR3, RAID, 3-Way SLI, CrossFire
Processor: Intel Core i7 930 Processor LGA1366 2.8GHz 8MB Cache CPU
Hard Drives: 2 x Samsung 1TB HD103SJ Spinpoint F3
Video:  Nvidia GeForce 460 GTX 1Gb
Operating System: Windows 7
Memory: 2 x Corsair CMX6GX3M3A1600C9 6GB ( 3x XMS3 2GB ) PC-12800 ( 1600MHz ) XMSP DDR3 (so 12GB in total)
Case: Lian Li PC-B10B Black Aluminum Case
Power: Thermaltake Litepower 700W ATX PSU

Actually, if you don’t mind ‘I am having one minor question still :)

When I try to import the file into Max the Model is gone. The animation and some dummy’s are there but I’m not sure why the model is missing.

Thanks very much for your help in this matter and apologies if these questions have arisen here a few million times before I did :)

regards

Ttandc

P.S. Sorry I can’t attach the file as even compressed in a .rar file it is still too big for this websites limitations.

I use 3DS Max 2011 and 3DS Max 2012
Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E MB, Socket 1366, X58, 6xDDR3, RAID, 3-Way SLI, CrossFire
Processor: Intel Core i7 930 Processor LGA1366 2.8GHz 8MB Cache CPU
Hard Drives: 2 x Samsung 1TB HD103SJ Spinpoint F3
Video:  Nvidia GeForce 460 GTX 1Gb
Operating System: Windows 7
Memory: 2 x Corsair CMX6GX3M3A1600C9 6GB ( 3x XMS3 2GB ) PC-12800 ( 1600MHz ) XMSP DDR3 (so 12GB in total)
Case: Lian Li PC-B10B Black Aluminum Case
Power: Thermaltake Litepower 700W ATX PSU