I`m having trouble converting a .stl file and a .lwo file with houdinis gconvert tool.. its just refusing to load the input files, i wondered if anyone else has had trouble?
cheers.
Mark
Converting .stl and .lwo to .bgeo
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Third Lwo2 support, it be great to support the extra weightmaps, colour vertexmaps, endomorph features(brought through as vector attributes with the same names), multi uvs and surface assignments converted to primitive groups.
This would make great support for both lightwave and modo objects which are both heavily used for modelling with across many studios.
Mucho thanks
maybe thats a possible feature request for 9.2?
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This would make great support for both lightwave and modo objects which are both heavily used for modelling with across many studios.
Mucho thanks

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What do you mean by point attributes of different dimensions? Just curious…
Pretty much what niko said, selection sets (0 dim), weight maps(1dim), UV maps (2dim), RGB and morph maps (3dim) and RGBA point maps (4dim).
I made a .geo loader for LW which tries to handle these, but proper support in the other direction would be super..
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Ah I see.
I'm writing a .geo format saver for another package right now actually, the .geo format is pretty simple though a bit cumbersome (you can't stream out to it, you have to build your data arrays internally first) so if someone knew Lightwave's SDK reasonably well it probably wouldn't take more than a couple of days to do it… that wouldn't be me of course
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Peter B
I'm writing a .geo format saver for another package right now actually, the .geo format is pretty simple though a bit cumbersome (you can't stream out to it, you have to build your data arrays internally first) so if someone knew Lightwave's SDK reasonably well it probably wouldn't take more than a couple of days to do it… that wouldn't be me of course

cheers,
Peter B
Cheers,
Peter Bowmar
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That is assuming you want to actually use Lightwave at all to do your LWO saving. As mentioned, LWO is a great file format that is being used by other software as well, including modo and cinema 4d.
It is an open well documented and straightforward file format, unlike others, which would be great to be able to load into Houdini.
It is an open well documented and straightforward file format, unlike others, which would be great to be able to load into Houdini.
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