Member Klane Posted January 17, 2018 Member Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 Hi, Now that Lightwave has finally released a new version, is there an export preset from 3dC to LW in our future? Thanks KL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted January 17, 2018 Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 Hi Please follow this thread to ask about any news. Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Member Albertkoenders Posted August 19, 2018 New Member Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 Hello, I'm new to 3d coat. I have installed the lightwave applink version 1.01 in lightwave 2018.06 and i get only errors... What is the best workflow to export/import in lightwave? Or is the applink not working? Greetings, Albert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted August 19, 2018 Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 Hi Albert, honestly I've never used the applink, even though I've been using both programs for many years. I don't think it works anymore, especially in LW 2018. I usually just export the model with textures as an LWO then load it into LW. In 2018 everything seems to load perfectly. In earlier versions of LW you may need to connect the normal map in the Surface editor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Member Albertkoenders Posted August 19, 2018 New Member Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 Hello Philnolan3d, thanks for the fast reply. Oke and with export preset do u use for lightwave 3D? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted August 19, 2018 Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 Just whatever the default is. Sadly there's no specific preset for LW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Member Albertkoenders Posted August 19, 2018 New Member Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 Oke its now working on the normal way. thank you 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Ma3rk Posted August 20, 2018 Member Report Share Posted August 20, 2018 Exporting out of 3DC as an FBX file works quite well for taking items into Lightwave. The file can be opened in either Layout or Modeler depending on what you're needing to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted August 20, 2018 Report Share Posted August 20, 2018 3 hours ago, Ma3rk said: Exporting out of 3DC as an FBX file works quite well for taking items into Lightwave. The file can be opened in either Layout or Modeler depending on what you're needing to do. Why FBX when it exports LWO? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Ma3rk Posted August 21, 2018 Member Report Share Posted August 21, 2018 10 hours ago, philnolan3d said: Why FBX when it exports LWO? Lightwave 2018 uses a different LWO format now than what 3DC writes. Still can use them for 2015. Once you import the FBX, you can then save items as a 2018 lwos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted August 21, 2018 Report Share Posted August 21, 2018 I just did it about an hour ago. I saved out a retopo object as LWO, loaded into 2018 Modeler and continued working with it. With another project last week I exported a textured model from the paint room and used it in Layout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Ma3rk Posted August 21, 2018 Member Report Share Posted August 21, 2018 6 hours ago, philnolan3d said: I just did it about an hour ago. I saved out a retopo object as LWO, loaded into 2018 Modeler and continued working with it. With another project last week I exported a textured model from the paint room and used it in Layout. OK. Good to know. Hadn't tried them for awhile as there were issues a while back. I didn't understand why as 2018 can open the older lwo version, just not the other way around. So no issues with the new surfacing system in 2018? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted August 21, 2018 Report Share Posted August 21, 2018 Layout The LightWave scene format LWS has been incremented to take account of LightWave's new features. Previous versions of LightWave will not be able to load LightWave 2018 scenes, you will need to export in a previous version LWS format. source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Emi Posted August 21, 2018 Member Report Share Posted August 21, 2018 3 hours ago, Ma3rk said: OK. Good to know. Hadn't tried them for awhile as there were issues a while back. I didn't understand why as 2018 can open the older lwo version, just not the other way around. So no issues with the new surfacing system in 2018? You can open 2018 LWO on previous lightwave versions, you would just need this plugin https://www.lightwave3d.com/assets/plugins/entry/lwo3-loader/ but I have never used it and who knows it is good enough or not. The problem is with LWS, there is no plugin for that. About the surfacing on 2018, you can load it from previous versions but it will not take any advantage of the new PBR features, LW will try to plug everything where it's suppose to be in this backwards compatible material that looks like previous versions. But it's just an approximation trying to give people something if they decide not to re-learn the new PBR workflow render features, but going the new features it's the recommended thing, even if some people say it's slower because rendering a cube will take longer, PBR is the future and it's a good future. I still would use FBX and do all the manual work myself like I have always done it, at least this way I have more control and I don't have to deal with LW trying to convert from one version to another and while LWO might be okay, it will not take advantage of any new feature so it's kind of useless to use it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Ma3rk Posted August 28, 2018 Member Report Share Posted August 28, 2018 FWIW, I still can't import an lwo made in Modeler (2018.0.06) into 3DC (2.8.20). All other formats behave as expected though; obj, fbx, even stl. I suspect that the workflow mention by philnolan3d actually saves out to the LWO2 which Modeler 2018 wouldn't have any issue opening. What Carlosan mentions though is the SCENE file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member chikega Posted May 15, 2020 Member Report Share Posted May 15, 2020 I've scoured the forum and from what I can tell it appears that there is no plans to support for LW 2020 either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member popwfx Posted May 16, 2020 Advanced Member Report Share Posted May 16, 2020 Ahh this is depressing... I know LW 2020 is not exactly the most popular software anymore, but it would be great if 3DC could still do the least support possible to keep that program alive. With 3DC, LW 2020 is a very powerful workflow still. Especially for lowpoly games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted September 25, 2022 Report Share Posted September 25, 2022 On 1/17/2018 at 12:56 AM, Klane said: Hi, Now that Lightwave has finally released a new version, is there an export preset from 3dC to LW in our future? Thanks KL C:\Users\<username>\Documents\3DCoat\data\ToolsPresets\ExtTools OpenGL.xml ---------------------- C:\Users\<username>\Documents\3DCoat\UserPrefs\ExportPresets Lightwave2020.xml ---------------------- Source: lunarbor OpenGL.xml Lightwave2020.xml 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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