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earwax69

06-30-2009, 08:29 AM

Hi, I have to work with a scene from Maya in lightwave... I imported it by fbx, replacing the camera with a cube for avoid rotation problems and everything look fine except the focal length. I could not find a thread about that then I matched it by hand and a 35mm focal in maya give me (by hand) a 21.9mm focal in LW. weird.

Is anyone had already work that way and could give me a more accurate way to transfert the camera zoom?!

thanks.

Here the cam info from Maya:

Horizontal film aperture: 1.417
Vertical film aperture: 0.945
Focal: 35
ratio: 1

ernpchan

06-30-2009, 12:57 PM

Maybe these will help?

http://newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80996&highlight=import+maya+camera

http://maya2lw2.faulknermano.com/

http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/mel_scripts/utility_external/export/Camera-I-O-4768.html

earwax69

07-01-2009, 01:36 AM

You, sir, are my new messiah!

It help indeed. I was thinking maya2lw was outdated but will check it again. The 2 other links are pure gold.

I cant do the test right now but will try this afternoon.

Thanks a lot!:bowdown:

ernpchan

07-01-2009, 06:48 AM

Schweet!

Glad I could help.

E