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Chapter 12. exporter.xml

For details on our Maya exporter, see the document Content Tools Reference Guide's section 3ds Max and Maya Exporters Maya.

Located under bigworld/tools/exporter/maya<version>, the grammar of exporter.xml is listed below:

<root>

  ?<unitScale>   float         </unitScale>
  ?<exportMode>  integer       </exportMode>
  ?<allowScale>  [true|false]  </allowScale>
  ?<bumpMapped>  [true|false]  </bumpMapped>

</root>

Grammar of bigworld/tools/exporter/maya<version>.exporter.xml

The list below describes the tags in bigworld/tools/exporter/maya<version>.exporter.xml:

  • allowScale

    Determines if transforms should be exported with scale (if set to true), or if transforms should be normalised before export (if set to false).

  • bumpMapped

    Determines if additional information should be exported in order to allow object's use with normal mapping.

  • exportMode

    Mode in which the object was exported last time.

  • unitScale

    Scale used to translate Maya units to metres. Default is 0.1, which means that each Maya equals 0.1 metres.