Exporter Maya
When exporting from Maya you need to use the Ogre Exporter which will export export .mesh, .skeleton and .material files.
Installation Instructions
Follow these steps to install the Ogre Exporter for Maya:
1. Stop Maya if it is already running.
2. Download the Ogre Exporter for Maya as a Zip file from here. This version of the exporter is compatible with Maya version 7.x.
3. Un-zip the file into a temporary directory
4. Copy ogreExporter.mll to the Maya plug-ins directory: C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya7.0\bin\plug-ins
5. Copy all the files from the dll directory to the Maya bin directory: C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya7.0\bin
6. Copy ogreExporter.mel from the "mel" directory to the maya scripts directory: C:\Documents and Settings\LOGIN_NAME\My Documents\maya\6.5\scripts
7. If you already have a userSetup.mel in your scripts directory: C:\Documents and Settings\LOGIN_NAME\My Documents\maya\6.5\scripts, open it with Notepad.exe and append this line: ogreExporter.mel;
If you don not have a userSetup.mel file in your scripts directory, copy userSetup.mel from the mel directory to C:\Documents and Settings\LOGIN_NAME\My Documents\maya\6.5\scripts
8. Start Maya, load a test model and export it.