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Subject: Lightwave 3d LWO conversion

Pandorian opened this issue on Nov 27, 2021 · 4 posts
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Pandorian ( ) posted Sat, 27 November 2021 at 8:34 PM · edited Wed, 20 November 2024 at 8:54 AM

Hello, is it possible to convert an LWO file to an OBJ file so it can be utilized with Headus UV Layout?

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Warlock279 ( ) posted Sun, 28 November 2021 at 12:17 AM

Yes, you can export an OBJ directly from LightWave Modeler; depending on what version of lLightWave you're using, LW's OBJ export can be rather lackluster.

My preferred method for converting an LWO to an OBJ is using Blender. You'll need a slightly older version Blender, as they dropped support for the LWO import plug-in a few versions back. I'm not sure exactly which version they dropped it from, I know that LWO support in Blender 2.49b is good tho [that's what I keep around to use for LWO->OBJ when needed].

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Pandorian ( ) posted Sun, 28 November 2021 at 11:35 AM

Thanks Warlock, downloaded Blender 2.49b, unfortunately it won't run on Mac OS Catalina.  I'll try exporting it from Modeler.  I don't really want to use LW's UV mapper feature, I just need to be able to convert from LWO to OBJ so it can be used with a third party UVMapper such as Headus UV Layout.


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LuxXeon ( ) posted Sun, 28 November 2021 at 5:28 PM

There's an import addon for LWO available for Blender 2.8-2.9 on Github.  I haven't tested it.  But perhaps it would be helpful?

https://github.com/nangtani/blender-import-lwo

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