Maya2LW[2]<\/a>, an open-source project. I took this one because it’s free and was recent enough to run with Maya6\/7 & LW 7\/8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nUsing Maya2LW[2]<\/strong> is very simple :<\/p>\n\n- From Maya<\/strong> exporting datas goes into two steps :\n
\n- Save the mesh in Alias|Wavefront format (.obj) so that LW will be able to load them. There is no particular issue there, except if you have to export NURBS. Maya2Lw doesn’t handle NURBS, nor does LW. The solution should be to convert NURBS to Polygons, but it didn’t work for me so far<\/li>\n
- Bake & export the animations. Maya2LW export ‘almost MDD compatible’ files, that just need to be converted to MDD format in order to be understood by LW. I had no problem here, except I had to select the relevant nodes in Maya, it can sometimes be tricky to find the right item.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
- Back to LW<\/strong>, I did it manually ’cause I couldn’t get the scripts working properly (version mismatch). It is rather straightforward, though :\n
\n- When imported, the .obj files sometimes comes without material\/surface assigned. That’s a necessary step to reassign surfaces, so that you will be able to see your meshes in the layout. In this precise case, I had to refine the mesh a bit to comply the LW limits : no n-gons subdivision<\/li>\n
- Apply MDD : I converted all the mesh transformations from Maya to LW with the MDD format, despite it is generally dedicated to mesh deformations (blendshapes, skinning …). LW uses the Motion Designer displacement plug-in to apply MDD files to any mesh. The settings are straightforward :<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Conclusion (so far) :<\/strong><\/p>\nI’ve got roughly the same mesh & deformations in LW as in Maya. Roughly : it seems<\/ins> there are some slight differences regarding the animations, and the bug lost its eyeballs, guess why, they were in NURBS.
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