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> Does anyone on the list know of a program that will take a LightWave motion
> file and convert it to a VistaPro path? I'm setting up an animation where I
> need to mix LW foregrounds and VistaPro backgrounds. If you don't have If
> you don't have camera paths that are the same shape in each program you get
> really bad looking motion.
> PD/shareware would be nice but a commercial program might be an option if
> it wasn't too expensive.
>
> Thanks for nay info.
> Jeff H...
>
Jeff, there is a simple way to do the opposite. I can take a VistaPro
path and convert it into Lightwave, I had quite a good success with a 3000
frame animation file. I just read the data as a space delimated ascii file
into a database table, organised it, and outputted it as a kind of report
in Lightwave format. :) then just cut and pasted it into a lightwave Scene
file.
I used an XBASE database program (Foxpro) on windows,
The database file I created, with the correct tables for lightwave, ie
Lwave.camx , the camera X position..
Here is the XBASE program. should work with DBASE.
use lwave.dbf
zap
APPEND FROM tree-2.scr TYPE DELIMITED FIELDS Lwave.camx,Lwave.camy,Lwave.camz,
Lwave.bank,Lwave.heading,Lwave.pitch,Lwave.hag
set talk off
total_rec = RECCOUNT()
frame = 0
go top
DO WHILE EOF() <> .T.
REPLACE scalex WITH 1.0
REPLACE scaley WITH 1.0
REPLACE scalez WITH 1.0
REPLACE spline WITH 0
REPLACE tension WITH 0.0
REPLACE continuity WITH 0.0
REPLACE bias WITH 0.0
REPLACE frame_no WITH frame
frame = frame + 1
SKIP
ENDDO
COPY TO scene.txt TYPE DELIMITED WITH BLANK FIELDS Lwave.camx,Lwave.camz,Lwave.camy,Lwave.heading,Lwave.pitch,Lwave.bank,Lwave.scalex,Lwave.scalez,Lwave.scaley,Lwave.frame_no,Lwave.spline,Lwave.tension,Lwave.continuity,Lwave.bias