OT - opening a maya file

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Hello
this is so OT, I apologise but I know some of you use Maya and I don’t know who else to ask :slight_smile:
I have been sent a rigged character as an mb file and need to open it in Cinema 4D - preferably with the rig working if poss which I imagine means exporting it from Maya as an fbx.open
Would any Maya users be willing to open it up and save it as an fbx for me?
Much much obliged if you can help
Cheers
Boxy

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Maya 7.0 okay?

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Hey thanks a lot for the reply yellowlabrador - pm’d you back
Boxy

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Boxy,
file is .mb version 8.5, my version is 7.0 got errors opening file

I got an error opening the file, my Maya is version 7.0 and the error I got from the maya console is your file is version 8.5 and my version can not read it.

I know Ethan has the latest version of Maya try to PM him.

Sorry

Ray

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ill give it a shot my company uses both maya 2008 and C4D so it shouldn’t be a problem converting it for you. although just so your aware if there are any expressions on the rig it wont export, just the joints and the skin weights

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OK thanks for your help anyway Ray
Cheers

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Rob too kind, I love this community :slight_smile: If the worst comes to the worst even just the geometry will be OK but any kind of working rig would save a lot of time. Its just for posing still at this point anyway. Do you want to PM me with an email address?
Cheers again
Boxy

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Check your PM for info :slight_smile:

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Check your email Ive sent the file. Hope it helps

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Fab, thanks a lot for your help, just the job :slight_smile:
Cheers
Boxy