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EpicGames ActorX Exporter for 3ds Max and Maya 2012+
« on: February 18, 2012, 14:55 »

As you probably know, EpicGames has discontinued ActorX support in favor for more advanced FBX format. ActorX plugins are still available in UDK distributions, but Epic is no longer building it for newer version of Max and Maya. However ActorX is still popular not just in Unreal Engine community, but even between Unreal engine licensees for some reasons.

Important note from 29-Mar-2016

Recently I've asked Epic Games for permission to publish ActorX plugin with source code, and the company decided to license plugin source to me under terms of BSD license, with possibility to distribute sources and binaries without changing the license.


Downloads:

Binaries: ActorX_All.zip

Source code: GitHub.


Changes:

For full changelog, please see this link:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gildor2/ActorX/master/readme.txt


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Re: EpicGames ActorX Exporter for 3ds Max and Maya 2012+
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2012, 14:43 »

I've added Max2013 support. There was a lot of changes made to the code (because Max SDK was switched from ANSI API to unicode starting with Max2013) so some testing is required. Both 32 and 64 bit versions available.

Also I've compiled Maya2012 and Maya2013 versions of ActorX. Unfortunately I've got x64 SDK only so 32-bit versions are not available at the moment. If somebody have Maya2012/2013 (32-bit) installed it would be great if you will provide me SDK from them - I'll need "include" and "lib" directories from Maya installation.

Feel free to post results about functionality of ActorX plugin in these programs.
P.S. The download link is in the first post in this thread.
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Re: EpicGames ActorX Exporter for 3ds Max and Maya 2012+
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2012, 05:44 »

G'day there Gildor

I am an aspiring game developer on UDK and have great interest in your actorx exporter plugin for 3DSmax to export custom weapons into udk. Having not done a lot of 3DS before i find myself with your file but no idea where to put it or how to use it. Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Evan
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Re: EpicGames ActorX Exporter for 3ds Max and Maya 2012+
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2012, 10:52 »

Hi.
I'd suggest you to read these pages:
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ActorX.html
http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/ActorXMaxTutorial.html

In short - to install .dle file you have to copy appropriate file to your "Program Files/Autodesk/Autodesk Max [version]/plugins" directory.
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Re: EpicGames ActorX Exporter for 3ds Max and Maya 2012+
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2013, 19:42 »

Hi is there any chance you could compile a version for Maya 2013 on Mac OS. Im having a terrible time trying to export .ase files from my Mac and i cant install any 3D software on my PC, i have tried these versions but they are locked for a windows machine. I would really appreciate it if you were able to do it.

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Re: EpicGames ActorX Exporter for 3ds Max and Maya 2012+
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2013, 19:54 »

Hi. Sorry, I think Epic has no MacOS support for their plugins. Perhaps porting Maya's exporter to Mac is possible, but for me this will require
1. Mac-compatible PC
2. a lot of time

If someone will provide me (1) for free that will be quite realistic task Smiley (that's a joke, of course ...)
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Re: EpicGames ActorX Exporter for 3ds Max and Maya 2012+
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2013, 05:12 »

Dear Gildor and Community,

Here is my 7+ min video tutorial on using Gildor's awesome updated verson of Epic Game's ActorX plugin for max

http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/972300-VIDEO-How-To-Import-Multiple-Animations-in-One-Timeline-Choose-Frame-Range-3ds-Max


Thank you Gildor!


Enjoy!

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Re: EpicGames ActorX Exporter for 3ds Max and Maya 2012+
« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2013, 07:38 »

Hi there,

This is a great resource! Thank you very much for keeping this plugin alive. However, I noticed it doesn't work for Maya 2014. Any chance for an updated version? Or just pointers as to what needs to be done; I'm not very programmer-savvy myself but if I can explain the problem, I've got someone who can probably figure out the rest.

Cheers!
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Re: EpicGames ActorX Exporter for 3ds Max and Maya 2012+
« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2013, 11:27 »

I'll need Maya 2014 SDK (both 32 and 64 bit, if available).
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If somebody have Maya2012/2013 (32-bit) installed it would be great if you will provide me SDK from them - I'll need "include" and "lib" directories from Maya installation.
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Re: EpicGames ActorX Exporter for 3ds Max and Maya 2012+
« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2013, 12:56 »

Aha, of course! I seem to have only installed the 64-bit version, do let me know if you'd like 32-bit versions of 2012/2013/2014 - I can arrange that without too much difficulty.

Here is a .zip where I extracted those two folders. Do let me know if you need anything else! And thank you very much!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14467358/Maya2014%20%2864%29.zip
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Re: EpicGames ActorX Exporter for 3ds Max and Maya 2012+
« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2013, 13:11 »

Thank you, but you accidentally placed "bin" instead of "include" into archive. Could you upload "include" as well, please?
... do let me know if you'd like 32-bit versions of 2012/2013/2014 - I can arrange that without too much difficulty.
That'd be nice Smiley
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« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2013, 13:30 »

Woops! Silly me. Here, https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14467358/lib.zip

I'll get the 32-bits later - tonight I should have time.

Thank you so much, again!
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Re: EpicGames ActorX Exporter for 3ds Max and Maya 2012+
« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2013, 13:43 »

Thank you.
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Re: EpicGames ActorX Exporter for 3ds Max and Maya 2012+
« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2013, 16:30 »

I've uploaded new zip with Maya2014/64 support. Please try it.
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« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2013, 18:37 »

Hmm. I can load it now, and run the "axmain" command without errors. But nothing actually happens - no pop-up appears. I enabled echo all commands in Maya script editor, this is what it says:

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axmain;
//  command AxMain executed.
 //
string $currentRendererName = currentRenderer(); renderer -query -rendererUIName $currentRendererName;
// Maya Software //
toolButton -q -ann $gNonSacredToolWidget;
string $currentRendererName = currentRenderer(); renderer -query -rendererUIName $currentRendererName;
// Maya Software //
toolButton -q -ann $gNonSacredToolWidget;
string $currentRendererName = currentRenderer(); renderer -query -rendererUIName $currentRendererName;
// Maya Software //
toolButton -q -ann $gNonSacredToolWidget;
string $currentRendererName = currentRenderer(); renderer -query -rendererUIName $currentRendererName;
// Maya Software //
toolButton -q -ann $gNonSacredToolWidget;
string $currentRendererName = currentRenderer(); renderer -query -rendererUIName $currentRendererName;
// Maya Software //
toolButton -q -ann $gNonSacredToolWidget;
string $currentRendererName = currentRenderer(); renderer -query -rendererUIName $currentRendererName;
// Maya Software //
toolButton -q -ann $gNonSacredToolWidget;
string $currentRendererName = currentRenderer(); renderer -query -rendererUIName $currentRendererName;
// Maya Software //
toolButton -q -ann $gNonSacredToolWidget;
string $currentRendererName = currentRenderer(); renderer -query -rendererUIName $currentRendererName;
// Maya Software //
toolButton -q -ann $gNonSacredToolWidget;
string $currentRendererName = currentRenderer(); renderer -query -rendererUIName $currentRendererName;
// Maya Software //
toolButton -q -ann $gNonSacredToolWidget;
moduleDetectionLogic;
loadModule -scan;

It then keeps doing the toolButton -q thing over and over again.

The first lines, that is,
Quote
axmain;
//  command AxMain executed.
 //
is all that appears without the echo command on.


Any advise?


Edit: perhaps it's nothing, but weird. When I type "axmain", it says "AxMain" is executed. When I type "AxMain"...
Quote
AxMain;
// Error: line 1: Cannot find procedure "AxMain". //


Edit#2: also, I'm sorry. I thought I would be able to get you the 32-bit versions easily, turns out we don't have them any more. I will keep an eye out, though.
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