importing entire scene from Maya?

[ilmostrog]

Hello all, I have a potential job and one of the sticking points is that I work in Maya and the org works in XSI. They would ultimately like to import the model, materials and lights into a scene without having to re-create in XSI. I know from my limited experience that you can export models easily enough using either OBJ or FBX but that other elements of the scene get lost from application to application. Any ideas or solutions that you know work? And to all of you who are about to reply with 'yeah, use XSI' that isn't an option at the moment but thanks in advance! :)
greg

[Helli]

Search for "Crosswalk" in this forum here. This exporter/importer might do the job.

http://www.softimage.com/downloads/Crosswalk/default.aspx

http://community.softimage.com/showthread.php?t=801

[ilmostrog]

Thanks Helli, very helpful.