Reading MAYA format

I''m currently doing most of my modeling in Maya but I can''t seem to find a "right" way to read it into my game. I am not a expert programmer so I have no idea how to read the file directly. I have however, found an alternative in exporting the Maya file into the halflife format then importing that into Milkshape 3d and reading that. However, that only works for characters so I still have a problem working with the levels I''ve created in Maya. Can anybody help me on this? I''ve spent a lot of time getting the characters to work so hopefully, I don''t hit the gutter with no levels Any help is greatly appreciated himan2002 himan5000@hotmail.com