One shortcut

Pick meshes of your project — press the Harbor hotkey and it’ll open in Maya. Multi-group will ship one after another, each into its own Maya group. Helper sub-collections (high, low, bake, move) stay in Blender.

‼️Only the clean parent groups and their visible meshes make the trip

• Select from 3D View or Outliner — Harbor reads both

• One group, many groups — same hotkey

• Only visible meshes travel; hidden variants are skipped

• Existing Maya groups refresh in place. Missing ones are created

"I press the hotkey and my whole character is in Maya"

Work with skeleton

With skeleton + skinned meshes Harbor works the same way. Tweak weights, press the hotkey, test in engine, tweak again.

💡The mesh can be replaced on the same rig over and over without touching anything else in the Maya scene

• Skeleton + skinned meshes delivered to scene root in one press

• Clean transforms — no unwanted scale/rotation in Unreal or Unity

• Iterate on weights → export → engine test → repeat, in seconds

"Paint weights, hotkey, engine — the rig-test loop is finally as fast as the modeling one!"

Texture features

Assign textures to your materials in Blender once — Harbor's Auto Texture Linker finds them by material name and wires Base Color, Normal, Roughness, and Metallic into the BSDF automatically.

On the Maya side, the same materials come through set up the way they should be: normals in Raw colorspace with tangent-space bumps, diffuse dialed to 1, reflected color off. 

💡When you re-export, materials aren't duplicated — Harbor reuses the same one every time, so your Hypershade stays clean no matter how many revisions you push.

• One click links Base Color · Normal · Roughness · Metallic in Blender

• Separate modes for Bake · Textures · Skins — pull from the right folder for the pass you're on

• Colorspaces and normal-map interpretation set correctly on the Maya side

• Diffuse, reflected color, and bump wiring fixed automatically after import

• Same material every time — no Material.001, .002, .003 pile-up in Maya

• Suffix conventions (_d, _normal, _r, _m, or your own) fully configurable

"In Maya the textures just look right — no washed-out normals, no wrong colorspace, no manual fixing after every import"

Bad geometry never reaches Maya

💡Harbor won't let broken meshes through and will notify you about the problem

N-gons, missing materials, duplicate material names (Material.001), or the wrong UV map name — the export stops at Blender with a clear reason, so the FBX is never written and Maya is never touched. And on the way out, Harbor applies Shade Smooth so your mesh doesn't land in Maya with faceted shading. 

💡Every check is a toggle: keep the ones that match your pipeline, turn off the ones that don't

• Blocking — N-Gons · No Material · Duplicate Material (.00x) · UV Map Name

• Warning — Unapplied Rotation · Pivot Not At Origin (you're informed, not stopped)

• Auto-fix — Shade Smooth applied to every exported mesh (toggle in Export tab)

• Every check individually toggleable in Preferences

• Expected UV name is configurable — map1, UVMap, or whatever your studio uses

"I know that if Harbor let it through, it's clean — I stopped double-checking before I hand off"