I must be doing something wrong then. I watched many tutorials I didn't see any that detail the lightwave workflow.
The one that was mentioned earlier in the thread used the PTEX meathod. I always used the per pixle workflow. Is the PTEX better? I wouldn't think so, at least not for what I'm doing. Also I imported a Sub patch object, in the video it looked like regular polys. I never had any problems with other sub patch objects, could it be different since version 4 came out?