Every time a person comes to this LIGHTWAVE forum with a question on how to achieve a certain effect, they can be sure that they will get an answer of how it would be better to do it in Blender, or "use blender as a plugin for lightwave." That's a cute idea, but if someone wants to know how to achieve the effect in Blender they would go to the blender forum. So what happens is, every thread, where a user is trying to get a straight answer on how to achieve the effect in Lightwave, (not any other program), they have to sift through tons of blender talk.
But you might say; they can do it more efficiently if they use blender with Lightwave, or just blender, so I'm helping them. But it's not a help. They didn't come to the LW forum to find the most efficient method or your preferred method. They came to find out how the effect can be achieved in Lightwave, slow processes, workarounds, cheats and all. Because, often, that is the app they already have installed, open, and know how to use.
It's not more efficient to take on the learning curve of a new program when you are just trying to solve a problem right now to get a project out the door. So all the blender answers actually waste a lot of time for people looking for a Lightwave answer. Just a reminder, blender has it's own forums. This is not that, nor is it the Lightwave/blender forum. One of those does exist somewhere. It's not here.
If I'm working on a volvo engine, and I go to a volvo forum for some advice, I don't want to waste time with people telling me to get a toyota instead, or to use the toyota to tow the volvo around town. I want to fix the volvo whether you like the volvo or not. If your experience is that toyota is better, I don't care, I came to the volvo forum. Even if the toyotas are free, the volvo is sitting in my garage, and I want to fix it, so I want info on that.
So, try to be helpful in a Lightwave context, those are the answers that will actually help people who come to this forum. They know where to find blender answers if they need to.
But you might say; they can do it more efficiently if they use blender with Lightwave, or just blender, so I'm helping them. But it's not a help. They didn't come to the LW forum to find the most efficient method or your preferred method. They came to find out how the effect can be achieved in Lightwave, slow processes, workarounds, cheats and all. Because, often, that is the app they already have installed, open, and know how to use.
It's not more efficient to take on the learning curve of a new program when you are just trying to solve a problem right now to get a project out the door. So all the blender answers actually waste a lot of time for people looking for a Lightwave answer. Just a reminder, blender has it's own forums. This is not that, nor is it the Lightwave/blender forum. One of those does exist somewhere. It's not here.
If I'm working on a volvo engine, and I go to a volvo forum for some advice, I don't want to waste time with people telling me to get a toyota instead, or to use the toyota to tow the volvo around town. I want to fix the volvo whether you like the volvo or not. If your experience is that toyota is better, I don't care, I came to the volvo forum. Even if the toyotas are free, the volvo is sitting in my garage, and I want to fix it, so I want info on that.
So, try to be helpful in a Lightwave context, those are the answers that will actually help people who come to this forum. They know where to find blender answers if they need to.