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invisible
03-23-2003, 07:02 AM
Tried opening a lw model with the maya2lwOBJImport plugin but I get an error, is it possible to use lightwave geometry in ple?

skigil
03-23-2003, 11:13 PM
sure.

the sure fire way that it will work is to save your LW geo. as a .dxf file, rather than an .obj file. next, just import your .dxf file into maya. make sure your dxfimport plugin is turned on in your plugin prefs.

btw - to make this work properly, you have to make sure your LW geo. is all polygons, and to make sure that all those polys are 4 sided. it MIGHT work if you have all of them 3 sided, but i know it works with 4 sided.

so you can't have any 5 point polys.

hope this helps.

-skigil

invisible
03-25-2003, 09:35 AM
aargh I have no dxfimport plugin. its not part of the ple install..

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