3DS Max - Free commercial use exporter?

Troubleshooting General Help
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I’m at wits end. I’m not a programmer, I just know how to mesh and texture. I’m trying to get a model that is textured and animated into SDK. The only exporter to OgreXML that I can find is through OgreMax, which I am not interested in paying $250 just to export a file.

So I tried installing Blender. I exported an FBX file from Max into Blender in hopes of exporting THAT as an XML. However, now I am reading that I have to download a script for Python, install that, and run it through Python?

Max > Blender > Python > JMonkey? I know I’m mistaken here because that’s ridiculous.

I have no bones to bring in. It’s entirely environmental and possibly a particle system. I need to somehow get at least the meshes and textures into JMonkey.

Is there an explanation without treating me like I’m knowledgeable in scripts? I appreciate the help.

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Max blender jme works mostly as well, thanks to kaehltras

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So far, I have not been able to go Max > Blender > JME. I can easily get an FBX file into Blender from Max, but from there it doesn’t seem to work. There doesn’t seem to be a plugin that allows me to just select XML when I export from Blender.

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Try collada/dae works fine mostly, just make sure the file path in the dae are relative. else blender will abort with an erro in the console.

jme can import blend files

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In SDK:
RightClick on *.blend file → Convert To j3o.
This way will be ok.