converting vray lights and physical cameras from max 2009 to max 8

[3dfabrique]

Hi

 

does anyone have any experience converting vray lights and physical cameras from max 2009 to max 8 (backwards conversion) ?

 

any ideas ...?

 

cheers

[BOXXLABS]

You might try parsing the scene file in a a hex editor. There may be a string of text near the begnning of the first header that defines the version of 3DSMAX the file was created (or updated) in.

 

You could try changing it from version 11 back to version 8.

 

I have successfully done this in Maya and a few other programs - not sure if it will work in this case.

 

Also, and this may be a case of the obvious, but for the future, you might want to save files opened in a later version of an app as a different file name - saving the "original" file in it's "older" state.