error -- "Failed loading fbx importer"

Unity Engine
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Hi everyone,
I just installed unity3d on my G4 (mirror door model running 10.3.9), demos run fine, but i made a few models in maya and when i try to import any of them either as .mb or fbx, i get an error saying

“Failed loading fbx importer”

I tried restarting the computer and still get the problem. any ideas?

thanks,
-Chris

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Don’t know if this will work, but did you try leaving Maya running and then launch Unity and load the files? Sounds like Unity isn’t able to launch Maya to load your files? Just a wild guess…

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I think Unity can’t read files of the newest maya version (Maya 8.0) :?

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Hi guys,
thanks for your help. it turns out that i had maya 6 installed in a directory other than the applications folder. i moved it to the applications folder and unity correctly finds the app now.

The problem that i am having is that i cant seem to add any models to the scene. i tried dragging the model into the scene view as well as the heirarchy panel and they just bounce back to the project panel and do not show up in either the scene or the heirarchy panels. i tried creating an empty gameObject and adding it to that as well but that didnt work.

I also noticed that when i click on any 3D file, it doesnt give any information on the file in the inspector panel, and am not sure if that is right.

thanks again for all your help. I really appreciate it.
-Chris

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I am also having that EXACT same problem!! No matter what i do, i cant get the .fbx importer to work, and my maya files bounce back nto the main project window!! what am i doing wrong?!

Maya 7.0, with fbx plugin for maya 7.0, on a dual g4 tower runnin OS X 10.3.9

please!!! someone HELP!!

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Nope it can, I use Maya 8 with Unity.

Can’t you just import the .ma or .mb files with Unity?