3ds Max - Gmax Bridge

Facilitates exchange of geometry and associated key-frame animation between 3ds-max and gmax.

The intended use of this utility is to exchange mesh-geometry between 3ds-max and gmax and acts as a replacement to the 3ds or obj data transfer workflow.
This utility supports only mesh-geometry and the corresponding keyframe-animations for exchange between 3ds-max and gmax. Objects other than mesh geometry will be exported as dummys but would retain the animation.

Supported for exchange :
• Heirarchy
• Mesh - Geometry
• Face Smoothing - groups (vert-normals are calculated from it)
• Face material - Id
• UV texture - coordinates
• Animations (keyframe) [except euler-XYZ rotation controller]

Not supported for exchange :
• Materials (planned for next release version)
• Non geometry/mesh objects [bones, dummys, cameras etc.] (exported as dummys)
• Modifiers [Skin modifier, etc.] (collapsed to editable-mesh before export)

The utility can also be used to transfer mesh/animation data from newer versions of 3d-max to older versions of 3ds-max where other formats of data exchange like FBX are unavailable.
(Some game-engine exporter plugins are written for older versions of 3ds-max and are not updated to work with newer versions of 3ds-max).