When I load the .PZ3 file into Lightwave, part way through a message box comes up.. "Please load the associated Poser Scene file". I click on the OK button, and the file browser window comes up, wanting either a .PZ3 or .PZZ file. I tried navigating to the original .PZ3 file I want to open in Lightwave. I get an error box saying "Instance loading failed". Click on "OK" button. Then it says "Error loading all Poser Plugin file info. Make sure and resave .LWS file. After this, the Poser figure shows up just fine. It's in the position of the first animation frame I had set it for in Poser Pro Pack. That's also the position it stays stuck in for ALL of the animation frames in Lightwave. Is there some other "Associated Poser Scene file" somwhere, that I'm supposed to be navigating to? Resaving and reloading the .LWS file doesn't make any difference. I noticed that CL's plugin installer for Lightwave only had a plugin file for LW versions 5.x and 6.x... Is anyone else unable to get the animation loaded into version 7??

first, make sure that in lightwave, you ADD the poser plugin. Then, open SCENE and set file type to ALL FILES then select your pz3 and click open. It should load it, animations and all, but be prepared to completely re-texture everything. its a pain, but the finished renders are well worth the effort

p.s. it will convert each figure (model, clothes, props etc) to a seperate lwo file. then its going to ask you to locate the first lwo figure it has made. after you locate it for lightwave, it should find the rest. It takes some coaxing and is not the fluid transfer we'd hoped it would be. But again, worth the effort.

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Also, if you stay in the box outline mode in LW it will appear not to move. The Poser scene appears static but what the Poser Plugin does is "displace" the imported items using Poser for guidance. Thus sometimes even when your display is set for textured objects it looks like the Poser file isn't changing. However, when you render it out you find it has actually moved. Do a few test renders somewhere down the timeline to confirm. If you've got QuickTime, you can follow the link and check out the first animation ("Lightwave Drum Test"). It's a test run for a short I'm working on. The drummer was 100% poser animated. The drum set was animated in Lightwave. Obviously you can check out the other stuff too.

OK... Tried all of the suggestions, and it still does the same thing. Tried reinstalling the Poser Pro service pack, and the Lightwave plugin, into a fresh install of Lightwave. No animation. "Error loading all Poser Plugin file info". That must be where it's not loading the anim. This is getting really frustrating.

try going to newtek and upgrading (for free) to lightwave 7.5

I'm pretty sure I've seen this topic here before. You might do a search of the forum for something like "instance" or "plugin" or even "Lightwave."