I have about 80% of the current and historic KB3D kits and LW3D has been my primary 3D app since its days bundled with the Video Toaster. I would love to see it supported directly with both Native and Octane surfaced models, but it's not to be, at least not as things stand currently.

Even though there is no support for native Lightwave objects, however both FBX and OBJ formats are standard for KB3D kits. As with all OBJ or FBX files from anywhere, when importing into Lightwave, all you'll get is the basecolor texture mapped with default settings for other parts of the surface (transparency and smoothing mainly).

There are a couple of 3rd party plugins that are of great help in setting up large numbers of PBR surfaces automatically in Layout, including one specifically written to handle KB3D files. Ask around in the Lightwave support areas around the internet and you'll find them.

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