Exporting models from Blender into TDM
edit: TL;DR: I've tweaked the .lwo exporter to preserve autosmooth angle Ahem. When I started writing this post a couple of days ago, it was supposed to be a "please help me, models won't smooth" kind of thing, but as I started taking screenshots and such for a comprehensive view of the problem, the question morphed into a "is there a hack to get .lwo's to export the way .ase's do", then to "how to get the same surface smoothing from Blender as you can get from Lightwave" and eventually to "do
On to the bad news. From what I currently understand, it is impossible for .lwo models to be smoothed independently of the way they are triangulated. The effect is hard to notice when a detailed material is applied on top, but once replaced with a flat smooth one, it becomes easier to spot (though still not obvious): This is (most likely) caused by vertex normals being derived from face normals. In the image above, vertex V1 derives the direction of its normal by averaging the normals of faces
