Ok I'm gonna come right out and say it that I am writing one for 3DS Max, Maya and XSI. But it takes a lot of time especially debugging it all.

Thanks for offering, but 3dsmax has a exporter of great quality in the works. If you are still around, maybe helping him out
would be fruitful

Maya and XSI are still needed.

Thanks;)
gm

Ok I'm gonna come right out and say it that I am writing one for 3DS Max, Maya and XSI. But it takes a lot of time especially debugging it all.

EDIDT EDIT EDIT: I wanted to add , that AOI does have a collada plugin > blender > export, so for now I can use that. If all things were equal, I'd be using maya I think, as its cross platform capable, and sure makes things easy ( bend , etc.), but at the price the company wants, no chance charlie <sad face>. I guess milkshape is now free too, and another option for such needs.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone

I think it would be hugely beneficial , to devote 'equal time' to other freeware 3d apps, like art of illusion &/or others
because from my point of view anyway, blender is way too hard to do simple things ( like bend). I don't mean its not capable, its just ridiculously non intuitive, hence why people like maya/max.

Art of illusion would be a great starting position as it does animating & texturing, not just modeling, but anyway the point is we need exporters for other FOSS apps too

If I could program, I'd be on it, but that is not my fate in life, atm, but Im trying to find time, to learn.

cheers
gm

There is a professional studio who developed a 3dsmax export plugin, you can maybe try to contact them :
contact @ medigames-studios.fr

For now, what you can do is exporting your data from 3dsMax or Maya in collada, and just use Blender for exporting.

Much thanks,

MrBlackspoon