Managed to import .map into AE 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 ;_; 

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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 · Accepted solution]

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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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.