Maya to 3dsmax

[Syclone1]

Can anyone advise on the best ways to get a file from Maya to 3dsmax? I have both programs and can use the send to from Maya to Max but the rig doesn't convert at all which isn't too big of a deal but the materials dont come over at all. The Maya materials are in Mental Ray and was hoping if I could get them to import then I could convert to V-Ray from there.

BTW my experience with Maya is limited to the last 8 hours lol.

-dave

[Morbid Angel]

well, it doesnt work this way. You pretty much can never send rig from maya to max and back. It has to be a specific kind of rig to even remotely work.

you either rerig in max, or animate in maya and bake the cache out.

For materials, mental ray materials should come through if you use fbx, as default lamberts, but at least they preserve their assignments and some basic textures.