I found the perfect model, already textured. But it was created in something else and in FBX. So I imported it into Maya. All seemed good... until I tried to convert it. There's no placed2dtexture. How do I add this?

hummm I very new to maya too, but from what I saw, it could be that there's no material on your model (after import).

I saw "placed2dtexture" "attributes" created on materials.
In maya you have a graph looking like this :
placed2Dtexture -> texturefile -> materialTexturetype(bump/color/transparency) -> material

btw...

go into Hypershade (window -> rendering editors -> hypershade), hypershade is the material library in maya, don't ask why they don't call it "material library".
from now you can create a new material for your mesh (something like : create -> material -> lambert).
I don't know if the material type is used at runtime ingame, but lambert is supposed to be matte, blinn or phong is shiny.

add a texture (from file) to your material "color", and that should be ok.

a small tutorial I found when writting this : http://ucbugg.github.io/learn.ucbugg/shading/

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IF, you allready have a material on your model, maybe "placed2dtexture" is the name of it (named like this at import).
you have to declare your material in body.ini and tell filemaker how to render it.

in your body.ini, copy


and rename it to match your material name. (or rename you material in maya to match the ini file :AA_body)
in your case it could be


look where this material is used within the body.ini file. (ctrl + F -> aa_body)
it's used here (line 1715):


and replace with the material name you have in maya...

if it's not that, sorry, I don't know. maybe xpadmin can help

I know right i keep pressing M and waiting for my Material Library to pop up

If a shader has a file it needs a placed2dtexture for the fileMaker to convert it.

You should see the shader name in the error. Select that shader (type in select ShaderName; in the script editor).

Now open the Hypershade and expand the shader using >> in the top menu.

Now you will see the shader fully expanded and the elements that are connected to it.

Most likely you will see a shader that uses a file but the file has no placed2dtexture.

You can delete the file element and recreate it by clicking on the color attribute and selecting file.

Now the shader should have a placed2dtexture.

the fast way

I was not so far

Thanks, xpadmin. Very few .ma/.mb models for what I want.