Maya Effects. One more bad news..

I've been doing some research on Maya effects as well, trying to learn how to create explosions and all that. Found this good reference:
http://petershipkov.com/development/overburn/overburn.htm

Kaboom!

This guys was kind enough to share some very interesting animations, but unfortunately, I could not manage to export it to an animation that we can use for the game. When I tried to load it using the utility that i wrote previously, it showed nothing.

So I played around with Maya, try to create a simple fire effect, which is quite straight forward:

And this is how it looks when you render it:

Cool huh?
Wait until you see it running on XNA:

Oh nooooooo! Again, the Animation component is the culprit... I think it doesn't know how to read or interpret the fire effects information stored in the animation...
So for now, it seems we couldn't use the fancy effects which are included in Maya...until I found out another way, the solution now is to create explosion/ fire animations using simple shapes with textures which we move around or somehow manipulate using simple transformations...

So sad..