What sort of plug-ins will I need for...

[Traxis]

Using Maya 5 Unlimited to model and export static meshes, player models and weapon models? I have access to Maya at school, and I wanted to know what plug-ins I would need to download so I can export models into Ued.

 

[Radiosity]

I'm assuming Maya 5 is advanced enough by now that they have .ase export functionality by default with the program - that's the format you need to for Statics. For skeletal stuff you need ActorX, found at the UDN:

http://udn.epicgames.com/pub/Content/ActorX/

 

[Traxis]

I don't think Maya 5 has built in .ase support; I looked in the documentation and these were the only supported data output formats:

Maya Ascii
Maya Binary
MEL
DXF
OBJ
IGES
StudioTools wire
mov (ascii motion)
VRML2
GE2
RTG

If anyone knows where I could get a plug-in that would allow me to export to .ase in Maya 5, I would greatly appreciate it.