This tutorial explains how to export a Maya scene including animated objects with simple keyframes. It uses the Virtools plug-in directly loaded in Maya. The Scene in Maya Load the “mountains.ma” scene in the tutorial’s “scenes” file into Maya. To do so, place “mountains.ma” directly in your Maya “/scenes” directory. Then place the 4 textures in “/sourceimages”. Here is what you should see: Activate Display/Polygon Counts to see the number of faces in the scene, i.e., 474 (quads or triangles). Note a certain number of specific characteristics before exporting this scene. - the vertex lighting & the triangulation.

In the Custom Polygon Display Options, set Color to Color in Shaded Display and the Color Material Channel to Ambient+Diffuse. Then click Apply. You will see in smooth shaded or smooth shaded & textured mode that the main scene is in vertex lighting. These values will be exported in Virtools.

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