Max 5 -> Max 4 Skinned Character

[Aaron Moore]

hmm... mesh won't be a problem ... but bones... don't think u can easily....

[bibi5000]

why? why would you do that to yourself?

because I'm a stuuuupid and desperate man, KingVance. :) But that's another story.

That's the way I did it:

My Character was rigged with a biped, the face was rigged with bones (don't ask. This was stupid to begin with...).
I saved the .bip and the .fig file and also the .phy file of Physique, then dumped the mesh with the forementioned script, opened it with Max 4, created a bip, loaded my .bip + .fig file, assigned a Physique Modifier to the Mesh, loaded the .phy file and... Voila, my character mas bipped again! Then I found out that Max 4 crashes, if I try to load a envelopes file that was generated in Max 5 (my face crashed, haha :hmm: )

But anyway, now I am wiser: The game I am working on supports EITHER Biped OR Bones. So I will rig my character again, this time I will include the facial bones in the bip. I don't know how to do that, but I will find out or I will ask again (short: I rely on your help :D ).

[Bobo]

Originally posted by bibi5000
Hello People,

I need your help! I want to import a skinned and boned character from Max 5 to Max 4. The BackFromFive Script of Borislav Petrov doesn't seem to to the job.


I have some future plans to support skin and bones between 5 and 4 with BFF, but cannot help at the moment - I am swamped with work for at least a month. :o(

[bibi5000]

I have some future plans to support skin and bones between 5 and 4 with BFF, but cannot help at the moment - I am swamped with work for at least a month. :o(

That's good news! Thank you for your script!!!! :applause:
You saved my life! You did a great job!

[Null_Object]

Bobo nice plug you have there tut is horrible though lol I'm going to bump an old thread up for yah bibi. Bobo's script is really sweet. As he informed and I state in the tut it doesn't seem to allow for bones to be taken across to max 4.

-Null

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