[brodie_geers]

I currently have a SketchUp model of a hospital and site and want to do a fairly simply camera animation. I can bring the model into 3ds Max, reassociate the materials and create the camera path but I'll have to reassociate those materials any time there's a change in the SU model.

What if I export my SU model to an MXS and then create a camera path in 3ds Max which I can export to a series of .MXS's which have the camera path but no actual geometry. Could I thru a script or something combine those somehow? What would be ideal, I think is if I could bring in the geometry in the form of the new maxwell proxy. That way if there are changes later I could update the proxy and rerun the animation.

Any ideas? Or maybe there's some other way?

-Brodie

[numerobis]

the proxy thing sounds interesting... and should work i think... or not?!?
If you place your linked mxs in max you should be able to start your animation from there even if you store a new mxs from sketchup.
...or directly from the mxs as you said.

[brodie_geers]

ooo...can you you bring an MXS proxy into 3ds Max? That would be perfect. How is that done?

-Brodie

[brodie_geers]

aw, found it on the toolbar. Too bad the proxies don't view correctly in 2012 yet. I'll have to go back to 2011 for now I guess. Thanks for the tip numerobis.

-Brodie

[numerobis]

Too bad the proxies don't view correctly in 2012 yet. I'll have to go back to 2011 for now I guess.

yes... i hope this will be fixed soon...
but i think the problem occurs "only" with Nitrous, so you can switch to directx in max2012

[Bubbaloo]

They display fine for me with DirectX.

[brodie_geers]

Thanks, I'll do that.

-Brodie