Lightwave

nidpants

i'm quite proficient in animation and modelling with LightWave, but am completely unversed in 3D Studio Max and Maya. i also *own* a copy of Lightwave, and wish to use it to its fullest extent. i'm just wondering why i haven't seen any sort of support for Lightwave recently. back a few years when Half-Life was far outclassed by Quake II on Polycount and PlanetQuake, it was about an even split between 3DSMax and Lightwave, but now i could even only find ONE reference to it on these boards. has Lightwave been outdated, or is it just unfriendly when it comes to the game modding community?

Daz

It's simply that the game development studios predominantly use Max, Maya and XSI. What they use for development tends to dictate what's used by the modding community, since export and other development tools tend to be written for a specific app.

nidpants

hmm... thank you for the punctual reply, but does that mean i'm pretty much out of luck when it comes to making models for, say, Half-Life mods or Half-Life 2? i'm still scratching my head as to why it seems so inaccessible now.

Daz

I think you're fine making models in whatever app of your choosing, as long as you have a means of export to get it into the app that it needs to be exported from. I could be wrong here, but for HL2 I'm fairly certain you need the specific version of XSI ( that they give away free I might add ) for the full procedure of getting into the game.

EarthQuake

There is a lightwave plugin for hl2 out somewhere, i think its still in beta but its out there, if i can find a link to it ill post it but i think gwot or someone sent it to me on irc.

EarthQuake

Here it is, im pretty sure guns and simple stuff work great in it but he needs someone to test characters and stuff like that http://coding.web.surftown.se/lw2smd/