# Maya and Hl2

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-and-hl2/236249>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [August 18, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-and-hl2/236249 "2007-08-18T22:48:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![zeldafreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/74df32/32.png) [@zeldafreak](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zeldafreak)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-and-hl2/236249/1 "2007-08-18T22:48:09Z")

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Hey guys, I’ve been trying to get hl2 characters into maya for our machinima movies. This tutorial:  
[http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Editing\_a\_hl2\_model\_in\_maya](http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Editing_a_hl2_model_in_maya)  
tells you how to do it step by step, but every time I get to importing the model,(after the 10 minutes of loading, which supposedly is normal. :huh:) I get no dialog box asking how I want to orient the model and everything runs reallllly slow. Also, when I try to get the material view the whole program gives me a fatal error and crashes… :-/

I don’t know if anyone can read the tutorial and make sense of my problem, but I would appreciate it greatly if someone could. 🙂 thanks.