WooHoo Wings At Work Now.. =)

#1

Heyas everyone.
It’s been a dream of mine for sometime now that I get Wings3D installed where I work. ( I don’t 3D model as a job ).

Well today I figured out how to do it… (getting past my user permissions on the network that is).

I’m a lightwave guy… and I love that app. But I think constantly modeling in Wings at work here will be good for me to increase my skills. (And fall in love with edge control).

Just a couple questions…

  1. What is the preferred method for getting you models from Wings to Lightwave? — OBJ format ?

  2. When I select a couple points, edges or faces in a straight line and I want to select in that straight lines all around the model is there a hotkey or tool I can use to do it? – (Bandsaw select for you lightwavers).

Lovin Wings so far… and the comunity looks great too! — I’m very excited to start using it everyday…

#2

I don’t know anything about lightwave but to select an edge loop just select an edge and hit “L” on the keyboard…

#3

Good to see you here Minus :cool:

  1. Yeah. I use obj getting stuff from Wings to LightWave. The FBX plug-in is another option that works well. You don’t have to have MotionBuilder. Just get the fbx plug for Wings and LW.

  2. Lots of options here :slight_smile:
    Select an edge and hit “L” to select the edge loop.
    Select an edge and hit “ALT+L” to grow the edge step by step toward the loop.
    Select an edge and hit “G” to select an edge ring.
    ((also see SELECT | EDGE LOOP for more options))

edit: oops… Tunames beat me to #2 :slight_smile:

#4

Edge-loops select gets a whoa from me. :scream:
Very nice.
I will check out the FBX plugins too… that’s a good idea… :thumbsup:

#5

Also, if you have a face selection - pressing L will return the perimeter / boundary edge loop of that selection. (and shift + L gets the face selection back)

Since this works - irrespective of whether you have a ‘proper’ edgeloop or not - it can be (very) useful sometimes - imo :slight_smile:

pp

#6

Minus.
Looks like we’re in the same boat, where I work the permissions are locked down tighter than a duck’s *ss. Luckily I’m an “expert user”, it’s meant to be for my Autocad work, but somehow Wings3D found it’s way onto my machine :beer:

Gotta love the way that you can switch selection modes and the selection changes to take this into acount (select a quad face, switch to vertex mode and the 4 corner points are selected).

#7

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