This document aims to be a comprehensive introduction to writing Maya-exporters. Using code-fragments of gpExport, a General Purpose exporter, we explain the reader how to obtain the most important information out of Maya.

If you just want to write your own exporter, without really understanding the internals of Maya, you can reuse gpExport, and skip directly to section Extending gpExport.

This exporter has been started as a school-project. It's original specification and report can be found here and here.

gpExport (the source) can be found here.