Thank you Mark
I'll give that a try next week when I have a little more time.
David
"Ma3rk" <m3dwhitney@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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]
> wrote in message
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>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Not much action around here lately!
>>>
>>>
>>>let's all post a question to the group!
>>>
>>>
>>>My question I'm still on LW 5.6 should or is it advisable to upgrade to
>>>9.2
>>>
>>>
>>>Regards Rossmcd
>>>
>>>
>>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.
>>
>>I've tried asking questions here, but not much response.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>If it hasn't improved, why not?
>>Why can't Newtek build it into Lightwave?
>>
>>David
>>
>>
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