meterman opened this issue on Feb 29, 2008 · 94 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Mon, 03 March 2008 at 2:57 PM
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Where did that initially-announced Lightwave support go..........? Someone must have forgotten about it later on.
My Inside Sources have told me it was a problem with the LW SDK and the fact that LightWave has changed so much over the last 2 years, and is about to see another major change.
Well, actually not any kind of inside sources, just my own assumptions based on reading what some of the LW plugin writers have said about the changes in the SDK. I'm just not very good at this - I've always sucked at spreading rumors. ;-)
If that's correct though, it's a good thing. It would probably tend to piss alot of people off if they made the LW plugin and then Newtek broke it two months later with a new release. Supposedly also the CA and rigging tools are undergoing some sort of change, so it would be likely Poser bones wouldn't translate properly until after that.
Good observations, MikeJ. While it's true that what you've said comprises speculation (which you've admitted 
), it sounds reasonable to me.
I'd still like to see Lightwave support. But you're right: best for them to wait until it's ready to do this.