This add-on has potential, but at the moment, it's difficult to work with. One of the biggest issues is the scaling. Imported models often come in at incorrect sizes, and adjusting them inside Blender doesn't seem to fix the problem. Rotating or transforming them is also frustrating, as the objects can suddenly become extremely large. When dealing with complex models, they often get broken into multiple separate pieces, which disrupts their structure. Another downside is that the imported models do not include materials, so you need to spend extra time setting them up manually. I really appreciate the effort put into developing this tool and hope future updates will resolve these problems. If improved, this add-on could become amazing and valuable.
There is an option to set a scaling factor before you can import. 3ds max has also sometimes some axes flipped, there is also a conversion option for that. Not all materials are supported, only standard, vray or corona materials can be imported. If you got problems with a specific file, you can use the issue page on github to upload it so I can check the issues, without the file I can not solve the problem because every .max file is different dependend on version, renderer or plugins.
thanks!
good
Sadly not importing uv's and materials assignment :(
This should usually work. Is there an error output in system console? Would be nice if you can use the issues page, best would be to upload the not working file
This thing is really nice and an unbelievable help! But I've noticed it won't import shapes inside a .max file. I have an old .max file that I used to organize shapes for moldings profiles, the addon does import meshes from the file, but it skips the spline shapes. Is it possible to accommodate the add-on for this type of import?
As the description says only meshes are supported yet, there is no documentation online about where the shape info is located in the file. You can upload the file on my issues page so I can have a look, but I doubt that I can solve it without any information about the parameters I should search for.
Excellent Work - thanks so much for your efforts. I did some test imports - the UVmap is nonexistent - I did have it selected on the interface. Is there something else I need to do? Will this work with animations as well?