[adam@activehq.co.uk]

Please help. I have Lightwave 8. Everything I read said that it was great and made basic 3D animation "Easy" (I know nothing is easy but I am pretty familiar with Flash, Illustrator, PhotoShop and web programming so I thought I'd be OK).. ... and I am just comepletely having a nightmare with the user interface. I need help with the following:

I need to import Poser Objects and animated them. I have created a great super hero in Poser. Bones et al. and I just can't seem to get it into Lightwave. I am looking at CR2 Rigger/Loader. Is this what I need ? Or am I being really dumb.

I then need to make my super hero run around in the scenes... what is the best way to do this (import BioVision BVH data??)..

I have downloaded the Rigging Tutorial and that all seems really straightforeward. Set keyframes, move things, make it look good, set more keyframes, check the animation... Next,.... But I can't even get my SuperHero into Lightwave in the first place (except as a stone statue with no bones and no colouring)


I also need to import Vue Scenes into Lightwave (just basic ones - no environments). But it gives me an error that the Frame Rates aren't compatible (I have set both my Vue Scene and Layout to 25frames/second). Anyway, I managed to import the scene (which has lots in it). And it has come in at a mini-mini-mini size. So small (entire thing is about 1cm square in lightwave)... I need to (a) either import it at the right size OR (b) grab it all (lots of objects) and group it together and scale it up. But there doesn't seem to be any way to select multiple objects unless I click on them individually. But I have lots of Trees in my scenes... At such a small size, I'll miss some.

Please help. I am desparate. I am expecting that these things are obvious once I know where all the file menus and stuff are in Lightwave but I just can't seem to find anything useful or that doesn't just come up with an error.


In much hope


Adam