3DS MAX 9 Error When Exporting to MDL?

[Heer_sturmfuhrer]

Ok well ive just linked all my volumes and clicked export to MDL and i get this error message:
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/3218/errorf.jpg


Does anyone here know what/why I got this error message? It wont let me export my model, only the PLY file is a full file (8kbs) whereas the mdl and mtl files are both 0kbs and empty.

cheers
Sturm

[Ackyth]

Helpfull Error isnt it. :huh:


Sadly it gives me nothing to go on.

Only advice is to go though the steps in the wiki tuturials one by one and see what it is. :(

[MrDorf]

I had this a couple times when I left an eclipse material with a non-dds texture on it during the export. I'd often load up my test materials as jpgs or tgas.

Might be worth a look to double check.

[Heer_sturmfuhrer]

Im sorry Mrdorf what do you mean? are my textures in the wrong format?

cheers
Sturm

[MrDorf]

If you set up an eclipse material in max, but assign it a texture file that is not in .dds format, the export will crash like what you're seeing.

That may not be your exact issue, as there's a lot of reasons the export could crash, but that one got me a few times before I tracked it down.

If all the textures you're using in your eclipse materials are in .dds format, then you'll be ok.

[Heer_sturmfuhrer]

Yey!, mr dorf you where right, it was becasue my texture was in PNG format, i changed it to DDS and its exported fine.

Thanks alot mate, now just need to alter the attributes and get this baby working in game.

Cheers
Sturm

[herr_today]

I get an export problem in Max8. Simple says module export error. All I do is load up Max, load up one of the sample models (the one of the MG, german machine gun). Then I run export as mdl. The error pops up every time.