An Executive Overview

PolyTrans has set the standard for conversion technology over the last three decades, being used as the tool of choice for all well known Fortune 25 to 500 corporations, engineering and manufacturing companies, defence agencies, industrial design studios, movie/film/production/digital-effect studios and 3D game + VR/AR developmers. Using PolyTrans you'll never again have to spend hours hand-tweaking or 'fixing up' a translated model. Just load the translated model into your favorite 3D program and start your production work - nothing could be simpler. More times than not, the lives of our new 3D production users are changed completely by the introduction of this software into their conversion pipelines. PolyTrans also provides the most cost effective and highest quality selection of native CAD importers, with no need for a native CAD program license.

One such Okino engine is utilized to preserve all rendering-related information during file translation, including geometry smoothing (normals), bump mapping (U/V tangents), (u,v) texture coordinates, vertex colors and vertex opacity/transparency data, where applicable. The geometry engine is also used internally to perform exact translation of all texture mapping information, including bitmap filenames, scaling, offsetting and all texture projection methods. When combined with its ability to convert all material information, lights, cameras and geometry hierarchy, PolyTrans is truly the most unique 3d data translation program currently available. It can be equated to a real human doctor who has seen 10's of thousands of patients for 30 years, for which that doctor can offer immediate, expert and highly reliable 'solutions' + advice.

A most important aspect for those who are new to PolyTrans, and its capabilities, is to understand that this software is used daily by a huge user base of 3D professionals, covering such varied groups as engineering, aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, government, military, production studios, digital effects houses, animation studios, 3D content developers and most major 3D game & VR/AR development companies. As such, it is heavily tested by our established user base. In addition it is very well supported and maintained by the developers of PolyTrans at Okino.

PolyTrans-for-3ds-Max and PolyTrans-for-Maya are specialized plug-in versions of the PolyTrans converter technology that run natively and directly inside the 3ds Max and Maya user interfaces. These are highly developed and refined versions of PolyTrans favored and used all throughout the 3D industry. They allow all of the supported PolyTrans DCC, CAD and VisSim file formats to be imported/exported from within 3ds Max or Maya. Over the last 2 decades they have been refined as mirror twins of each other so that complete scene data, animation data and skeleton/skinning data can also be bidirectionally converted between 3ds Max and Maya using the Okino .bdf file format (click on the image to the right to view a flow chart diagram outlining this conversion process). Equally important to our user base is the similar PolyTrans for Cinema-4D conversion system. These modules are now primarily used as the defacto CAD to 3ds Max, Maya and Cinema-4D conversion systems.