LightWave Importer for Unity

[gar26lw]

oh, got a feature request

be cool to have an option to combine all layers in the LWO to a single mesh in the LWO importer options

 

[escape_artist]

Assets\Lightwave Importer\LWS Importer\Editor\LWSceneBuilder.cs(73,147): error CS0433: The type 'ProgressBar' exists in both 'LWOImporterLibrary, Version=1.0.7214.20196, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' and 'LWSImporterLibrary, Version=1.0.7214.33710, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'

LWS version 1.12
LWO version 1.63

unity 2019.1.4f1

do you think a bug or problem some place else ?

Ah sorry, my mistake. The LWOImporterLibrary contained in LWO Importer is out of date by 15 minutes compared to the one in the full LightWave Importer asset. I'll update straight away.
Thanks for letting me know

 

[escape_artist]

oh, got a feature request

be cool to have an option to combine all layers in the LWO to a single mesh in the LWO importer options

Yes I agree that would be cool - except I think it will break the LWS Importer when (if) it needs to use an objects individual layers in a scene.
...hmmm I'll have to give it some thought to see if there's a way around it.

 

[gar26lw]

any thoughts on this one ?

LWObject.OnEnable must call base.OnEnable to avoid unexpected behaviour.
UnityEditor.Experimental.AssetImporters.AssetImporterEditor:OnDisable() (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Modules/AssetPipelineEditor/ImportSettings/AssetImporterEditor.cs:423)

Unity 2019.2.8.f1, when you select and LWO in the project view tree in unity.

got this as well on reimport

OnInspectorGUI should call serializedObject.Update() at its beginning and serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties() before calling ApplyRevertGUI() method.
UnityEditor.Experimental.AssetImporters.AssetImporterEditor:ApplyRevertGUI()

VirtualEscapes.Common.Importers.LWO.LWObject:OnInspectorGUI() (at Assets/Lightwave Importer/LWO Importer/Code/Editor/LWObject.cs:194)
UnityEngine.GUIUtilityrocessEvent(Int32, IntPtr) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Modules/IMGUI/GUIUtility.cs:179)

 

[escape_artist]

hmmm, it looks like Unity have changed something in 2019.2.8 - I'll update mine and fix those bugs. I don't anticipate it taking long (famous last words)
-Chris

 

[escape_artist]

ok I've submitted a minor update to the Unity Asset store for both LWO Importer and LightWave Importer. The console will stop displaying errors with the new fix.

My suspicion turned out to be correct: Unity has made a breaking change in 2019.2, however I think you can still use the old version of LightWave/LWO Importer for now until the updates go live. It will still work despite the annoying error messages in the console.

 

[gar26lw]

thanks, yeah unity and it’s constant changes, always a bit of a risk to upgrade the unity version.

 

[gar26lw]

Still getting that error with latest LWO importer 1.631 in Unity 2019.2.8f1

Gonna try and roll back project to 2019.2.2f1 and see if still occurs. EDIT -> yep, still get :

LWObject.OnEnable must call base.OnEnable to avoid unexpected behaviour.
UnityEditor.Experimental.AssetImporters.AssetImporterEditor:OnDisable()

I got the error even though I removed Unity LWS importer. Didn't see an update for that on the store atm. was at 1.12.

rolled back to Unity 2019.1.4f1. don't want the error, just cos it freaks out other users on project

 

[gar26lw]

if no UV in object (no texture defined/assigned at all in surfaces) but two surfaces applied to a mesh (set reflection, spec and diffuse settings) using std material. lwo2 format from 2015.3

throws this warning using latest LWO 1.631 with Unity 2019.1.4f1 :

LWOImporter generated the following warnings for Object.lwo
Found 1 instance of unsupported texture mapping. Polygons need to be UV-Mapped to correctly display textures.

UnityEngine.Debug:LogWarning(Object)
VirtualEscapes.Common.Importers.LWO.LWOImporterLogManager:OutputToLog()
VirtualEscapes.Common.Importers.LWO.LWOImporter:OnImportAsset(AssetImportContext) (at Assets/Lightwave Importer/LWO Importer/Code/Editor/LWOImporter.cs:139)
UnityEditor.Experimental.AssetImporters.ScriptedImporter:GenerateAssetData(AssetImportContext)


Didn't happen with one surface assigned and no reflection set with same object.

 

[escape_artist]

Lightwave Importer and LWO Importer are both currently 40% off, as part of the Unity Asset Store Cyber Week Mega Sale!!!



They have never been this discounted before so, if you haven't already pulled the trigger, now is the perfect time to give yourself an early Christmas present!

 

[jwiede]

Do these work with Unity & LW Mac, or just with Unity & LW Windows?

 

[escape_artist]

Do these work with Unity & LW Mac, or just with Unity & LW Windows?

They work on all platforms.

The Lightwave file format is exactly the same regardless of OS. And it's been tested in Unity on both Mac (which is what I develop on) and PC. I haven't heard of anyone using it with Unity on Linux yet, but I have a feeling it might even work on that!

 

[tyrot]

i have try to use LWOimported objects with BAKERY lightmapper and i could not make it work. I think there must be a setting that i should check for getting evaluated by the lightmapper system - (progressive or Bakery)

without Bakery there is no unity for me

 

[BeeVee]

I've just bought your plugin to support further development Best I reinstall Unity...

B

 

[escape_artist]

i have try to use LWOimported objects with BAKERY lightmapper and i could not make it work. I think there must be a setting that i should check for getting evaluated by the lightmapper system - (progressive or Bakery)

without Bakery there is no unity for me

Hi Tyrot. Sorry I'm not sure what to suggest. I can't use Bakery myself as I have neither an NVidia GPU nor a windows PC. If you could describe exactly how it's not working it might give me a better idea whats wrong? eg what is your workflow and at what point does it fail?
Thanks

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I've just bought your plugin to support further development Best I reinstall Unity...

B

Great! thanks for the support. I hope you find it helpful

 

[tyrot]

Hey Escape thanks for checking here.. For further discussions - here or unity forums are better for you? Also do you have a Discord or similar channel?

 

[escape_artist]

Hey Escape thanks for checking here.. For further discussions - here or unity forums are better for you? Also do you have a Discord or similar channel?

We can do it on these forums, on the Unity forums, or by email if you prefer. Email address here will go straight to my inbox: https://www.virtualescapes.no/contact-us

 

[escape_artist]

Lightwave Importer 1.15 is now live: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/modeling/lightwave-importer-153113

It has support for the new Universal Rendering Pipeline materials in Unity 2019.
This new version is also able to detect the rendering pipeline of the current Unity project, so you don't need to specify it in the inspector anymore when importing.

Both LWO Importer and LWS Importer have also been updated to reflect these changes.

 

[tyrot]

awesome thanks - i will fire some emails about Bakery!

 

[gar26lw]

thanks