Since the introduction of Maya, PolyTrans-for-Maya has been the premiere CAD and DCC/Animation conversion plug-in system for Maya (Windows) that allows Maya to freely exchange complete 3D scene data with virtually any other 3D software package, such as 3ds Max (via PolyTrans-for-MAX), Cinema-4D (via LW), BVH, Collada, DirectX, FBX, Lightwave, OpenFlight, SketchUp, Softimage-XSI, Wavefront OBJ, VRML2/X3D, XAML-3D and many more. It has also provided the defacto crack-free BREP solids CAD conversion modules for all major Maya production studios since the mid-90's including ACIS SAT, Autodesk Inventor, DWF-3D/HSF, IGES solids, CATIA v4 + v5, DXF/DWG, JT Open, OpenNURBS/Rhino, Parasolid, native Pro/Engineer, Solid Edge, Solid Works, STEP, U3D, VDA-FS, XGL and more.

Polytrans-for-Maya breaks down all previous data translation barriers and truly makes Maya a universally open software package. In the tradition of all Okino 3D data translators, resulting translated files are 'Render Ready' meaning that they can be loaded and rendered in the destination program (Maya, Softimage-3D/XSI, 3ds Max, Lightwave, etc.) with little or no changes necessary. The translation process accommodates polygonal meshes, trimmed NURBS, hierarchy, skeletons & smooth bind mesh skinning, vertex normals/colors/texture-coordinates, material and texture mapping parameters, lights, cameras, object/camera/light animation conversion (file format specific) and automatic 2D bitmap conversion (when necessary).

Since the early part of this decade Okino has pursued active R&D in the area of skeleton and skinning conversion between the most popular 3D character animation software packages or destination file formats, those being Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max, Softimage XSI, Lightwave, DirectX and Kaydara FBX. This WEB page provides a good overview of the concepts behind skeletons and skinning, and why in general conversion of skinning data between these aforementioned software packages is ripe with potential problems.

The mirror twin PolyTrans-for-Maya and PolyTrans-for-3dsMax form the tightest integration available between 3ds Max and Maya, being in use since the mid-90's by every major production studio. Bidirectionally converts 3D scenes including error-free animation and skeletons + skinning, geometry and vertex attributes, lights, cameras, base materials and texturing. Overcomes the hardest conversion problems encountered in years of heavy production environment usage.

PolyTrans-for-Maya consists of the PolyTrans base package (PT-WIN) and the DCC/Pack add-on license.

Download 8 pages whitepaper about PolyTrans-for-Maya.