what needs to be linked to the frame object 4 a rigged biped?

theres a problem with that... i tried to do that before and the jms exporter thing said there are too many characters to export. thats y the original question was asked about the frame object.

Link the mesh to the root node, "bip01 pelvis" or whichever the root node is
cyborg linkage looks kinda like this in max:

I did, it just has the same error........

06.10.08 11:54:37 tool pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
06.10.08 11:54:37 reference function: _write_to_error_file
06.10.08 11:54:37 reference address: 42ca20
06.10.08 11:54:37 Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
06.10.08 11:54:37 EAX: 0x00163820
06.10.08 11:54:37 EBX: 0x0020F701
06.10.08 11:54:37 ECX: 0x001605AC
06.10.08 11:54:37 EDX: 0x001605C8
06.10.08 11:54:37 EDI: 0x0012F160
06.10.08 11:54:37 ESI: 0x00000000
06.10.08 11:54:37 EBP: 0x0012F038
06.10.08 11:54:37 ESP: 0x0012F028
06.10.08 11:54:37 EIP: 0x7C90EB94, C3 8D A4 24 ?????
06.10.08 11:54:37 EXCEPTION halt in .\intermediate_geometry.c,#444: triangle->material_index>=0 && triangle->material_index<old_material_count

what does this mean?

You have triangles with material IDs not in the material list

what i do then?

for each mesh in your scene,
1. select it
2. Under the Selection rollout, select Face mode, the red triangle between Edge and Polygon
3. click Unhide All in the same rollout
4. de-select Faces mode
5. press m. In the materials browser dialog that pops up, click Pick
6. pick the mesh you're working on

7. for each Sub Material listed in the Multi/Sub-Object
7.1 click the Select By ID button in the Surface Properties rollout
7.2 enter the ID and click OK
7.3 click Hide

when you've hidden all faces with IDs listed in your multi/sub, select all (edit menu). If you've selected anything, those faces need new sub materials in the multi/sub, or their IDs need to be changed to one(s) that are in the multi/sub
If no faces were selected, move on to the next object, from line one, above

please start you own thread.