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Gentle Fury

10-24-2002, 11:26 PM

I have a client that needs us to finish a project that was started in Lightwave. We use maya here, is there a way to convert an entire scene (lights, textures, geometry, animation curves) into a maya compatible scene (mb, ma)?

This is an urgent question as we have a sharp deadline.

Any help would be really appreciated!

CIM

10-25-2002, 08:21 AM

There are no conversion programs out there that work perfectly--not even close. Most of these programs only convert a few things over.

gmask

10-25-2002, 09:15 AM

At best you can import the models but it woul dhelp if you had lightwave to sort out the models or export them as OBJ from LW.

bentllama

10-25-2002, 01:15 PM

I am not sure about the compatibility with LW, but see what the Kaydara Filmbox plugins can do for you...

www.kaydara.com

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EDIT: Here you go...
http://www.kaydara.com/partners/sdk/fbx/index.php?filename=compat&source=LW70&dest=Maya40

MasonDoran

10-25-2002, 01:19 PM

all you need to do is a little bit of research

:)

http://www.3danim.de/pages/free_stuff/maya2lw/maya2lw.html

wedge

10-25-2002, 01:23 PM

2byts: i dont believe he is trying to convert from Maya to Lightwave, he's trying to go from Lightwave to Maya.

MasonDoran

10-25-2002, 03:02 PM

:D "DOH"

dwalden74

10-25-2002, 05:14 PM

Try Deep Exploration (www.righthemisphere.com). Converts between most 3D formats, plus you can download a full-working demo. A great app, although I´m not sure if it´s even possible to convert deformations among 3D packages. Might require some re-rigging and such.

:beer:
david

Munson

10-25-2002, 05:58 PM

Gentle Fury, I have the beaver project and it should import Light, Camera`s and Objects into Maya 4 and 4.5. I don`t think the textures would come thru the import process and I`m not sure about any deformations. But the basic objects and the scene contents should work. I could try a scene for you if you like?

edit : the object and or light animation should get baked into the Maya scene. It should do key-per-frame. which is no worries in Maya cos u can reduce keys.

Cheers,
M

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