Hi, I’ve been trying to post this reply to a topic from a few weeks ago, but each time I try to post I get an ‘internal server error.’
Hope this one goes though.  No zip file attached to this yet—just want the message to go through first

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Hi,
I’m trying to import a C4D FBX scene into Flame action in Batch.  (running 2012 Flame now, not sure the version of C4D) So far it only seems to crash my system (unless I turn off models and everything else).  .OBJ files exported from the same C4d scene work fine, but they’re of course limited.  (I’m hoping to get the lights, objects, textures, etc.—but don’t need camera or animation necessarily)

It’s probably just some export options that aren’t hit right, but I don’t know enough about C4d to advise the guy, so any thoughts on this would be much appreciated… Thanks

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Can you post an example that crashes for you?  (use .zip)
Author: Doug Rogers
Replied: 2011-05-26 12:55 PM

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Hello,
I am a QA specialist for flame/smoke. Could you send us a zipped version of the C4D setup that is crashing Flame? Also which version of FBX sdk is C4D using?
Thanks
Yumiko
Author: yk
Replied: 2011-05-31 7:38 AM

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Hello,
I am a QA specialist for flame/smoke. Could you send us a zipped version of the C4D setup that is crashing Flame? Also which version of FBX sdk is C4D using?
Thanks
Yumiko
Author: yk
Replied: 2011-05-31 10:48 AM

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Hello,
I am a QA specialist for flame/smoke. Could you send us a zipped version of the C4D setup that is crashing Flame? Also which version of FBX sdk is C4D using?
Thanks
Yumiko
Author: yk

Zip file attached w/ FBX.
Do you want the original C4D file too?

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auctionroom_chairandtag_v3.fbx_3.zip

Hi, thanks Yumiko.  I’m afraid I know nothing of C4D (I’m a Flame guy) other than the trial and error with this FBX problem recently.  I don’t know how to upgrade the C4D exporter to 2012, and no one around here does either.  Can you show me where to go for that?  I find nothing on the Maxon site, etc…
Thanks!
(It’s fine that there are materials missing on the chair, etc.—this is really just a test to make C4D & Flame talk via FBX…

We also just purchased the Cactus Dan FBX Import/Export plugin for C4D, hoping that maybe it’ll work better, but haven’t tried it out yet…
http://cactus3d.com/CDFBX.html

Also, we are running C4D on Mac, not Windows—maybe that’s why the FBX Exporter is still 2010.2, even though we have the very latest version of C4D as of yesterday…
Should we try it on a PC (if there is one)?

I’ve tried out the Cactus Dan FBX plugin, and it seems to be doing everything I need—embedding textures properly, cameras, lights, etc.—and no crashes!
Thanks for your help