Plugin for Lightwave or Modo or Both?

[rcallicotte]

Planetside team - are there any plans within Planetside to create plugins similar to this one to include Lightwave 3D or Luxology's Modo?

http://www.lwplugindb.com/plugin/vue-xstream/

If so, can we hear about it now or do we need to wait?

[cbshort]

Lightwave can read the FBX files that TG2 now exports. Would that work? What do you intend to do between the apps?

[rcallicotte]

Vue has a plugin.  Just checking to see what Planetside's plans are.

[penboack]

Vue has no plugins for modo, whereas with TG2 you could sync cameras from modo to TG2 using the ChanIO plugin http://www.modo.stenson.tv/ even before TG2 V2.5 introduced FVX support...

[Oshyan]

We do not have plans to create such integration plugins. We feel that the development and support time involved in specifically integrating with multiple applications is much better spent creating and improving generalized interoperability using open and widely supported file formats such as FBX, EXR, CHAN, OBJ, etc. With this approach we can theoretically support any current as well as future application which also chooses to support the common (and widely available) formats we import and export. Although there may be some advantages in direct integration, the drawbacks in performance, stability, and narrow application support seem to outweigh them as far as we have seen.

- Oshyan

[rcallicotte]

Thanks Oshyan.  Different tools for a variety of folks.  This makes sense.

We do not have plans to create such integration plugins. We feel that the development and support time involved in specifically integrating with multiple applications is much better spent creating and improving generalized interoperability using open and widely supported file formats such as FBX, EXR, CHAN, OBJ, etc. With this approach we can theoretically support any current as well as future application which also chooses to support the common (and widely available) formats we import and export. Although there may be some advantages in direct integration, the drawbacks in performance, stability, and narrow application support seem to outweigh them as far as we have seen.

- Oshyan