Hi Mark, well hopefully we can inject a bit more 'life' into the LW debate.
'Love' is a bit strong
but yes I'm getting workable results with very little lost time with my workaround, obviously it depends on your particular situation/type of work, it's all horses for courses.
Yes it would be great to able to do everything from within LW but that just ain't possible right now........rather than bang my head against a wall I needed to be up and running asap and this is the only way right now.
Focal distance is just a seasy in Studio, don't understand your problem there........it's just 6 numeric boxes, us Lightwvers are pretty used to those......it's just as quick in Studio once you've got used to it.
I didn't say 'no further changes', once you've got your layers mapped it's easy to adjust the few that will need amending, you can even isolate those layers in a new model and just import them again, they will auto-replace the outdated layers.
I think the high functionality you want from the plug-in is more complex to solve, we are only at v1.0 after all.........I bet there's functions in Max that aren't supported either.
Rather than trying to make MWR work the way we've become used to, we have to figure out how MWR works NOW and adjust our practices to suit, this IMHO is the only way to use it for production at present, but that's always been the way with new technologies.
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