Maya FBX plugin does not support materials?

[Anonymous]

Hi, I am pretty new to maya, and have been trying to export my model to FBX format in order to use it in my XNA game.

Problem is, whenever I export, maya gives me an error window saying "Warning: unable to export some materials", and "The plug-in does not support the following material types: Material mia_material_x_passes14 will be exported as a grey Lambert material" 7 times in the 'description' part of the error window.

This is really annoying and I couldn't find any solution or work around for this in the internet.
Does anyone know a solution or the cause of the problem?
thanks.

[Anonymous]

you can only export maya material (lambert) mental ray is not supported so with baking method you can export all the final result in fbx ,this method is used for game environment , and work well.

http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/846-Baking-Light-Maps-for-Game-Environments-in-Maya-and-mental...

hope this can help you

[tony.su]

I believe Microsoft XNA don't support mental ray materials. And mia_material_x is a mentall ray materials. So change it to another materials which XNA supported is a good idea.