Converting boned LW to B3D?

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t3K|Mac (Posted 2006) [#1]

Hi! Has anyone yet successfully converted a boned lightwave animation to b3d? the use of terabits lwdeform does not work (can't see the anim, in lw it shows up). any other tools aorund for this issue?

Naughty Alien (Posted 2006) [#2]

I did that over PolyTrans for MAX plug in (I import everything in to 3DSMAX) and then export over B3D pipeline as B3D...working fine here...as I mentioned before, every single cent I spend on very expensive plug in like Polytrans, is worth...

Mustang (Posted 2006) [#3]

TB's tool works just fine for me (boned/skinned .LWO)... be sure to have weightmaps, uvs and triple the ngons. You're doing something wrong if it doesn't work for you... Also note that there are two tools, one for "rigid" and one for "deformable" models.

scribbla (Posted 2006) [#4]

#edit: beat me to it ;) terrabits lwdeform works fine, infact better than fine it must be your lightwave scene file 1: does the mesh convert and show up in the converter window 2: have you key framed and used weight map only

Avrigus (Posted 2006) [#5]

I find that exporting to directx then convert to .b3d in unwrap3d works well for Lightwave bone anims.

Craig H. Nisbet (Posted 2006) [#6]

terrabits lwdeform is the bomb! I love it!

t3K|Mac (Posted 2006) [#7]

yeah, it works now. weightmap was the problem. thanks for the help guys!!