Maybe I can give some feedback to both questions.
For Rossmcd, there've been a lot of major changes with Lightwave since
5.6 of course. And as David replied, only you can decide if those are
of a benefit to you. From my experience & no matter what level of skill
you're at, many of the improvements will be immediately noticed both in
Modeler and Layout. At present, the 9,2 version has broken a few 3rd
party plug-ins & scripts, but all else is pretty solid.
For David, taking posed objects from Poser6 into Lightwave is pretty
simple, but you'll need one shareware utility called AccuTrans. You
ex****t the posed figure from Poser as an .OBJ file. LW can open OBJ's
natively, but it loses the texturing info. With Accutrans, you can
convert to an .LWO object WITH the texture info. Simply make a copy of
the Poser textures for appropriate LW /Image content folder for the new
object.
You won't want to try to perform any deformation type animation to these
objects as they're high meshed polygonal rather than sub-patch objects
of course.
Hope that helps.
M.
David McCall wrote:
>"rossmcd" <rossmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Hi,
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>>Not much action around here lately!
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>>let's all post a question to the group!
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>>My question I'm still on LW 5.6 should or is it advisable to upgrade to
>>9.2
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>>Regards Rossmcd
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>Probably
>There have been a lot of worthwhile improvements since 5.6.
>On the other hand, I'm not sure how much of the improvements, since 5.6,
>I actually use in my work. It's a decision that only you can decide.
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>I've tried asking questions here, but not much response.
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>A recent question was;
>has there been any improvements in the
>process of moving objects from Poser to Lightwave?
>I design sets for community theater and would like to
>pose a character in Poser then load them into my scene.
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>If it hasn't improved, why not?
>Why can't Newtek build it into Lightwave?
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>David
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