Lightwave to Milkshape problem

Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:44 pm by baene

If anyone could help me...When i import a Lightwave .lwo into Milkshape, the textures WILL NOT work on Milkshape. I've tried texturing in Lightwave, THEN getting the model into Milkshape, then i tried texturing in Milkshape AFTER the import, but either way, the textures won't transfer right or the model won't...it's odd but to sum it up i can texture just FINE in Lightwave, but when i import to Milkshape, the textures revert to their base color, or when i import a naked model then try to texture, it does the same thing...anyone have any ideas? The versions i'm using are Lightwave : 7.5 and Milkshape 1.7.0 ...i'm stumped lol

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Thanks in advance guys

Baene

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Edited by - Stinger on 2/14/2004 3:31:32 PM

Sat Feb 14, 2004 3:34 pm by Hobbes78

I get this problem on occasion too. what i find works well is to triple your mesh in Lightwave, then from light wave export it to .3ds format. then import to Milkshape.

does not work 100% of the time but does work and i find it helps kill the mesh errors you get sometimes from importing lwo files into milkshape

Sat Feb 14, 2004 10:53 pm by baene

oh dear god, thank you Hobbes

The problems importing from Lightwave have been quite annoying, so i will try your suggestions

Thanks again!

Baene

Fri Feb 20, 2004 3:15 pm by Firewing

Well..I made a ship in Truespace, converted it to Lightvawe, and then open it with Milkshape.. I textured the milkshape model and the textures stay there..

the only thing is that they don't show in FL, but I'm probably doing something else wrong...

Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:48 pm by Hobbes78

Firewing,

1st: Check your LODRanges , best setting ffor custom ships is : 0, 99999
2nd: Check the spelling in your mat fiole, make sure they are correctly spelled with what you have in the milkshape file, so if you have a material named: cockpit_glass in your ms3d file, in your mat file it should be: under material tree: cockpit_glass , and under your texture tree: cockpit_glass .TGA.

3rd: make sure the scalling is right. you can easily check this by going into freelancer and buy your ship then mount weapons on it.

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Hope this helps

Roland "Hobbes" Orr
Founder, Samurai Studios

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