Layout


VistaScriptRead
    This plugin can be found in Layout, under the Options screen, as a Generic plugin.  It will convert from the Vistapro 4.0 script format for camera motion to a LW motion file.  First, from within VP4, go to the Path tab and choose Export path.  Then, go into Layout, and open the Options panel.  Open the Generic Plug-ins drop-down list and choose RealiTools_VistaScriptRead.  A file dialog box will open and ask you to find the file to convert.  Simply choose the file you want, and click "open".  You should receive an information message telling you that the file has been converted successfully, and what the new LightWave motion file name is.  Also, if you want to export the Vistapro landscape to a DXF file so that it can interact with your LightWave scenes, I suggest these settings:

256 polygons / object
Subsample rate 4
Overlap seams off
Zero-based coordinates

VistaScriptWrite
    This plugin can be found in Layout, under the Options screen, as a Generic plugin.  It writes out the motion data for the camera in the same script format as what Vistapro 4.0 outputs.  Unfortunately, though, I wrote the plugin before I realized that I don't know how to import scripts into Vistapro!  Oh well, at least it's there in case a future version of VP will import external motion scripts...
    To use the plugin, simply open up the Options panel, open the Generic Plug-ins drop-down list, and choose RealiTools_VistaScriptWrite.  The output script name will be the same as the name of the current LW scene (and in the same directory), but have ".scr" appended to the end.

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