max<-->UEditor

[xarius]

I've only been here for half a day, and I've already seen far too many topics on this. Perhaps this calls for sticky post?

If you are trying to import or export something from 3d Studio Max, here's what you do:

From Unreal Editor to max -
1. Open whatever you're exporting
2. File->save as-> filename.obj (make sure you've got .obj and not .t3d)
3. Once you have the file in obj format, open Max (or maya) and do a file->import and import the obj. Voila.

From Max to UE -
Export your object as an .ase file. Open Unreal, go to your static mesh browser. import.

[phOny]

Yep, I agree, Thanks for taking the time to do this

[xarius]

just doing my part to give back to the comunity

[Klarth]

Hello
im a complete noob in max but ive got a mesh and i cant get it into ued

What i did:
Exported as a .ase file
tried importing and also opening in ued

result:
nothing!

what am i doing wrong?

oh i also tried doing this with a cube, nothing happned as well

any help would be great ^_^

[Klarth]

well my mistake was trying to import directly into ued 3 not the sm browser
well although the info above is correct a more detailed tut can be found at the address below

http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/kelbeau/.../contents.html

thanks to fordy for that one ^_^

[Barathrum]

"Rendering to textures"

Is this feature only available in 3dsmax 5?
And not somewhere in version 4.2?

[KinDread]

Even when I export to .ase I can't seem to get the object into UE. This is UT2003 and max 4.3. Is there some special way you have to import within UE, cause when I try to just open it from the file menu it gives a 'general protection fault' and quits.

[dochogan]

Originally posted by KinDread
Even when I export to .ase I can't seem to get the object into UE. This is UT2003 and max 4.3. Is there some special way you have to import within UE, cause when I try to just open it from the file menu it gives a 'general protection fault' and quits.

Look 2 posts above yours.

[KinDread]

yeah, thanks. I saw that right after I posted. I didn't recognize it as the same problem when I first read through.

[KinDread]

Anyone ever had this problem: when importing a texture into UE (either bmp or pcx), the dialog with package, group, etc shows up, but after that nothing happens, no error message or anything.