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scifi_3d_zoo  1991 posts
Title: Scifi 3D Forum
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Date Posted: 8/4/04 7:42am Subject: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests ** - Date Edited: 1/4/08 10:00am (2 edits total) Edited By: scifi_3d_zoo
Post all such questions here. Share ONLY your solutions here with all. Use the PM system if you need to carry on a longer conversation.

 

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ObiMcD  1450 posts
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Date Posted: 8/7/04 12:19am Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
Having some problems with a conversion of an LWO to 3ds. We lost some polygons in the conversion. If anybody can convert it themselves or knows of a good freeware prog, let us know.

 

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Jedi2016  2954 posts
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Date Posted: 8/7/04 8:54am Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
For the five bajillionth time..

USE OBJ, DO NOT USE 3DS. 3DS SUCKS.

 

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ObiMcD  1450 posts
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Date Posted: 8/7/04 12:12pm Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
Already tried it, for some reason with the polytrans trial version or whatever we lose the 5th polygon no matter what file we export it as.

 

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scifi_3d_zoo  1991 posts
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Date Posted: 8/7/04 1:14pm Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
How do you know that that's not a built-in disabling effect on the trial version??

 

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ObiMcD  1450 posts
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Date Posted: 8/7/04 4:02pm Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
That's a total possibility, though that limitation wasn't listed on the download site. But if there's another piece of software that works better than perhaps I should get that.

 

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Jedi2016  2954 posts
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Date Posted: 8/8/04 9:37am Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
Well, if memory serves, there's a plugin for MAX that exports OBJ.

It might also help if we knew what format you were trying to get it into... you said you wanted to export a 3DS, does that mean you're taking it to LW? Bryce? Blender? Maya? Truespace? C4D? The list goes on an on...

And yes, the "remove every fifth polygon" is built-in to the demo of Polytrans. It's a demo, it's not meant to be fully functional.

 

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ObiMcD  1450 posts
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Date Posted: 8/8/04 11:02am Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
I want to go from LWO to 3ds, Max, or Obj. Is there a good free conversion program that could help me out?

 

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Jedi2016  2954 posts
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Date Posted: 8/8/04 11:34am Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
Okay, you still didn't answer my question.. I'm GUESSING that you're trying to get an LWO model into MAX. In which case, read my previous post.. there's a free plugin for MAX called "OBJ2MAX" (goes along with MAX2OBJ) that will import an OBJ file. LW can export OBJ natively without any plugins or external help.

If you don't have LW, I would suggest finding someone who does, who wouldn't mind doing the export for you. As far as I know, there are NO free conversion programs. The best one I've found is Deep Exploration, which I believe has a 30-day fully functional demo that should at least get you through this one conversion. You can load up the LWO, export OBJ, and import that into MAX. Don't bother trying to go directly from LWO>MAX, it'll never work. MAX is too different, direct conversions always fail.

 

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scifi_3d_zoo  1991 posts
Title: Scifi 3D Forum
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Date Posted: 8/9/04 12:28pm Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests ** - Date Edited: 8/9/04 12:36pm (1 edits total) Edited By: scifi_3d_zoo
And... might I add one thing to hopefully wrap this up... Deep Exploration is mentioned in the FAQ in the conversions section. Also... you guys noticed I said to run the conversation in PM and share the answers in the forum?? I don't think anybody will ever do this but it would make the place alot neaster since we have to stay inside a thread. BUT I'm not gonna remove anything here b/c what Jedi2016 has said already pretty much will cover about 80% of the questions here anyway.

 

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darthviper107  2241 posts
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Date Posted: 9/6/04 3:51pm Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
I've got some Cinema 4D plugins that I want to import into 3ds Max by any way possible, I tried using Deep Exploration but they haven't updated their c4d plugin so it can't read them. I tried to use the C4D demo but that doesn't allow you to export, I also tried to find a 3ds Max plugin that can import it but I can't find any, so is there a plugin or something that can do it?

 
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ZethyD 
Registered: Nov '04
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Date Posted: 11/3/04 6:42am Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
Having some problems with a conversion of an LWO to 3ds. We lost some polygons in the conversion. If anybody can convert it themselves or knows of a good freeware prog, let us know.


- http://www.tb-software.com/download.html
this funky little programm converts nearly everything into everything
get the: 3DWin + 3DWinOGL V4 + 3DWin for Moray 3.5 (full+update)
plus the 3Dto3D Evaluation Binary (otherwise it wont work)
g`luck with this one

 

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Jedi2016  2954 posts
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Date Posted: 11/3/04 10:56am Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
Deep Exploration will do it. I think that program's been mention in almost every single post in this thread. While it's a commercial program, it has a 30-day demo full-featured demo mode that will export your model for you.

But really.. why 3DS? Surely you can find a better format than 3DS.. obsolete, ugly wireframes.. icky. Use OBJ. Or hell, just convert the LWO directly to MAX.

 

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Miroku_87 
Registered: Mar '05
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Date Posted: 3/18/05 2:31am Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
How can I map an image on an object, like a plane for example?

 

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DVeditor  15650 posts
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Date Posted: 3/18/05 7:39am Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
What program are you using?

 

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Miroku_87 
Registered: Mar '05
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Date Posted: 3/19/05 2:13am Subject: RE: ** CONVERSION Help / Requests **
D'oh, sorry >_<

I'm using 3D Studio Max 7 ^_^'''

 

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