FBX what happen? Collada is it going to happen?

[klanderud]

I am not in the game industry but I really do need the two.

Does anyone know what happen to the FBX plugin?

Also any word on the Collada plugin developments?

[gjjackson]

FBX was a Kaydara plugin I believe and Alias bought it out. You'll have to go to their site and sign up in order to get it. Don't know about Collada.

[klanderud]

Alias does does have it, but Alias is owned by Autodesk.
I have several of their products so I was able to download it easily.
They had it only for Lightwave 8.2, hopefully I will be able to get it to work properly.

FBX is a popular format I am surprised it is not supported here as much and I have not heard much about Collada support.

[colkai]

Well, the FBX plugin development is supported only by Autodesk as they are the ones now in control of it's development.

Notice how the latest version is provided for Maya, but NOT LW?

It's still useable, but nowhere near the "global" standard they claimed it would be, if anything, they are tying it closer to their own products now.

Shame really, it had a great deal of potential for cross-package use but I guess Autodesk have to conserve their monopoly.

For MB / LW work the FBXLW80.P plugin is still very useful in LW9 though.