glTF exporter for Maya on Mac OS

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Hey folks,

Just wondering do we have the plan when to rolled out a Mac version of glTF exporter for Maya?

Our dev env in is on Mac, so if we can have a mac version of it would be awesome :slight_smile:

Many thanks!
Tawibox

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Not that I am aware of, cc @Guillaume_Pelletier

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The exporter is build with the .Net API.
Maya .net API is not compatible with Mono therefore not OSX nor linux.

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Makes total sense

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Gotcha. Thank you so much for the explanation guys!

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Btw do we have plan to roll out a Mac gltf exporter in any form?

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I would hope GLTF becomes so mainstream it becomes a standard export in 3d tools but @bghgary might know more about this space.

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We don’t have any plans to support Mac. We’re hoping Autodesk will have something eventually and can replace our exporter, but this will probably take a while. Maybe you can nudge them via feedback. The more people who ask Autodesk to do something, the more likely they will do it. :slight_smile:

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Just voted in their community! And I am surprised there are only very few vote for this feature there…5 request and request got most votes are 12… :sweat_smile: but yeah I agree this should be the official support. Blender starts supporting it from a while ago. I will try to get more ppl to vote in maya community.

Anyways, thank you so much for replies guys.
Appreciate it.
Tawibox

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I have maybe missed something, but this python one seems decent:
iimachines/Maya2glTF: Maya to glTF 2.0 exporter (github.com)

not free, but you can try fee with watermark:
Verge3D Features - Soft8Soft

There’s an interesting blog post from Exporting glTF from Maya - Mati Codes (matiascodesal.com) for yet another plugin on why he chose Python (portability). His plugin though I don’t think is as feature complete.

edit: I should add as well that you can run .NET framework on Parallels or VM. I used to run Visual Studio for Windows on my Mac :smile: I suspect you don’t want to go that route, but that’s two ways to run the babylon exporter on a Mac.

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Thank you so much for these info! @brianzinn I was looking at some of linked you mentioned before. But had concerns they might have risk losing support at any point in the future. Verge3D is a good option as well as Parallels.

Appreciate it again!
Tawibox

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I just tried Simlab 3D Plugins - GLTF exporter for Maya
And it worked. Although it looks like it’s spyware.

And there are 122,777 validation errors. Which is something i notice with the Babylon exporter from Maya (on Win) as well.

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