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charlie
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Maya exporter problem

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I'm using Maya 7.0.1 Personal Learning Edition. I created a simple cube, assigned a material. And wanted to exported. So I did the Ogre->Export. It showed the error: Cannot find procedure "ogreExport".

Following the installer i copied the file ogreExporter.mll to E:\Programme\Alias\Maya 7.0 Personal Learning Edition\bin\plug-ins.
The two files ogreExporter.mel and userSetup.mel into the scripts directory located under E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\patrick\Eigene Dateien\maya\scripts.

Seems like I totally screwed something up because using the comandline exporter I ran into other troubles (but i think they have noting todo with each other): Here's the output:

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E:\ogreExporter_bin_maya7.0_1.0.2\mel>OgreXMLConverter.exe "E:\Dokumente und Ein
stellungen\patrick\Eigene Dateien\maya\projects\default\scenes\cube.mp"
Creating resource group General
Registering ResourceManager for type Mesh
Registering ResourceManager for type Material
Registering ResourceManager for type Skeleton

-- OPTIONS --
source file      = E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\patrick\Eigene Dateien\maya\pr
ojects\default\scenes\cube.mp
destination file = E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\patrick\Eigene Dateien\maya\pr
ojects\default\scenes\cube.mp.xml
interactive mode = false
lod levels       = none (or use existing)
-- END OPTIONS --

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Post by jfaust »

I'm pretty sure Maya PLE does not allow export plugins. Also, the format it saves to is not readable by anything other than the PLE, which is probably why the command line exporter didn't work.
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Post by charlie »

Too bad, I was really amased by the PLE. It was a great way for "poor" students to get a great tool for learning. But when I can't export anything it's useless for me. Anyway, thanks for the help. I tought I made a silly mistake by the installation of the plugin.
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Post by Falk »

I think there is a student version of Maya available ...
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Post by charlie »

Falk wrote:I think there is a student version of Maya available ...
That's what we are talking about ;)

It's the PLE (Personal Learning Edition) that causes the problems when exporting.
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No, the student version is a regular Maya Complete/Unlimited version. Just for a cheaper price (check Alias Resellers) ...
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