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May 21, 2025
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Managed to import .map into AE 2025

  • May 21, 2025
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How can I get the file to display? I want to animate 3D models in AE and managed to import a .map from the game halo 2. It was all black though, after messing around the interface a bit I managed to get some VR features up which made a 3D scene and camera and stuff but it was still black.

 

If you guys are curious how I did this I renamed the .map to .json then AE told me to rename the file to .jsx then after that I imported both those filles, played with them, and then I was like I wonder if I can just directly import the .map, and I go to file, import, file, and its there in my project panel, I drop it into a composition and nothing, it's black. 

 

I want a version of AE that fully supports the import of these files. I was looking through the halo infinite files in their folders and I saw that there is a .json file, that's what lead me on this wild chase. It appears like AE was used to create some of halo infinite. 

 

My point is, I need these features to do what I want to do for my gaming community. We're getting killed by CoD editors and it's embarrassing, this would open the doors to so much for us and bring halo back ;_; 

Correct answer nishu_kush

Thanks for writing in.

After Effects doesn't support this file format and won't be able to read it. I'd recommend creating a feature request in the Ideas section of the Community.

Feel free to reach out if there are any other questions.


Thanks,
Nishu

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pTw4shortAuthor
Participant
May 21, 2025

BTW I can't reimport the file because I told support about it before coming here and they basically patched it. I'm sure I could crack it again though. Regardless, I deserve a year 2000-2005 version of AE with all modern features that I can also import my .map files into. 

nishu_kush
nishu_kushCorrect answer
Legend
May 22, 2025

Thanks for writing in.

After Effects doesn't support this file format and won't be able to read it. I'd recommend creating a feature request in the Ideas section of the Community.

Feel free to reach out if there are any other questions.


Thanks,
Nishu

pTw4shortAuthor
Participant
May 30, 2025

If it doesn't support it then how did I almost manage to get it to display big felluh? Here's the reality, there is a developer version of AE with a ton of experimental features that I want access to. I don't appreciate all this secrecy, I've been using AE for 15+ years don't insult my intelligence. 

 

AI will tell you exactly how I managed to do this if you explain to it the steps I took. Any way, sorry did not mean to be rude but I want access to the extra tool bar in 2025 AE.