>> Do you know of what differences there are between .lxo and .lwo? It seems that Modo is structured very similar to the .lwo format already, so I'm not quite sure what the differences are.

Hi Michael,

.Lxo is a complete scene format, storing objects, light setups, camera, animations etc ... while .lwo is 'just' an object format.
In fact .lwo is not used anymore in modo, it's just there for data exchange with lightwave


In lightwave stuffs were splitted into 2 formats, .lws (that can be edited in a simple txt editor) for the scene, and .lwo for the geometry.