Exporting/Importing from LW to Max

[Xiaro]

Hey i was wondering how to export outta lightwave into 3d studio max.. when i save the file as a .3ds in lw it gives me an error that i have more then 3 vertacies or somthing or other.
Help is appreciated
Thanks

[rabid pitbull]

3ds files cannot read quad polys, so you need to triple it first.

[CTRL+X]

You best bet is to NOT triple and to NOT export out of LW in .3DS file format,,,, instead, go to THIS SITE (http://www.maxplugins.de/) and get the LWO2MAX imort plugin. This way you can bring in a lwo file quads and all and use MAX's native triple, mesh smooth or whatever you may need

[Elmar Moelzer]

Hello
We usually use *.obj WaveFront format. It works pretty well with MAX (I am not sure, but I think you need a 3rd-party plugin for MAX).
CU
Elmar

[Epita]

Now what did you go and get MAX for! I have allways used 5.5. lwo for exporting, try getting a Max exporter from flay so that LW can go straigt to max, probably work better too

Epita

[discode]

Another solution would be to export as .dxf. I used this quite a bit before i got the lwo import plugin mentioned earlier in the thread.

[bakasaru]

Have you tried Polytrans?

http://www.okino.com