SGI Inventor and Lightwave?

[Nakia]

Greetings!!
Are there any SGI Inventor and Lightwave solutions?
What I'm looking to do is have models from LW exported to SGI Inventor for 360degree viewing on SGI boxes and/or linux boxes. This will be used for Demo and Display purpose.
There are some convertors built into IRIX to convert to iv format but none from LW format. I know I can export to one of the supported formats fro LW. I looking for more direct route. As far as textures and color I can use Showcase on SGI.
I use LW 7.5c on Mac OS X and PC, also I have access to LW 5.6 on SGI.
Thanks in Advance!!!!

[Nakia]

I found one.
http://amber.rc.arizona.edu/vrml.html#Converters
I totally forgot about vrml.

[marvinl]

The converter you found is a standalone program which should run just fine on an SGI. But since you have access to SGI LW5.6, I thought I would also mention that you can also find a couple of Inventor related LW plugins at these URLs:

http://amber.rc.arizona.edu/lw/invsave.html
http://amber.rc.arizona.edu/lw/invview.html

The standalone and these plugins are all based on the same code, so results should be similar. Whew, it's been quite a while since anyone asked about these old SGI plugins.

[Nakia]

AHH Thanks So Much!!
I saw that sight awhile back, but I could never find it agian.
Just what I'm looking for.

[Nakia]

I think Inventor rocks.
I got a dream of having a SGI statched somewhere and using Inventor ivview as a big display using some pretty mouse to control it. I'm not after real serious details or textures. But having an overall 360 controlled view is a good way to demo architecture, furnture and indoor design.
I found one Inventor Mac OS X solution.
To bad the Linux Open Inventor can't be found anywhere it had alot of upfront GUI Tools, I little more then the IRIX version from what I scene). There also are Inventor games on SGI site.
I guess that there re not too many SGI heads left.