Lightwave 3D - Showroom & Tutorials

[emufan]

i've added a new archive with lw5.0r and content.

LW50r_Incl.CDContent.lha

added content of the videotoaster cd: images, scenes, objects, added new lwpanel.p
added plugins to lw-config. binaries are version 5.0r
third icon "Assigns" will add toaster: and 3D: assigns

#1) so start the assigns icon first, next modeler or lightwave.

#2) in modeler, if you experience a stalled modeler, after some action, switch to workbench.
there is a shell window with some error message, just push "enter" key in this activated window and return to modeler.

[Muadib]

[Muadib]

About #2, when Modeler stalls upon launch, you can also just press a key since focus has momentarily returned to WB. This as long as no mouse key is pressed on the Modeler screen.

Throughout the years, I' ve observed that this error could be date-based, like odd or even dates could be triggering it... Although I haven't really tested it.

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[emufan]

Originally Posted by Muadib

Throughout the years, I' ve observed that this error could be date-based, like odd

yep, it's a bit confusing, when you are not used to it. good thing is, it happens only once after starting the modeler

[Muadib]

True that. It also seems that it can affect importing/exporting to and from layout sometimes in the form of stack overflows and program crashes. Although it could be only my system or Oxypatcher...

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[emufan]

Originally Posted by Muadib

True that. It also seems that it can affect importing/exporting to and from layout sometimes in the form of stack overflows and program crashes. Although it could be only my system or Oxypatcher...

cannot confirm this, but may happen. so a good advice: save your work offten,
save your work in progress, using different filenames 001, 002, 003 or whatever. makes things easier if you get a crash

[Muadib]

'S' and 'Shift s' are our best friends!

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[emufan]

Originally Posted by Muadib

'S' and 'Shift s' are our best friends!

[HELP] key itself too, reveals some more keyboard shortcuts

@d4rk3lf: does the new 5.0r archive works for you?

[emufan]

Originally Posted by d4rk3lf

@emufan
Thanks a lot, it worked perfectly!
The only thing is that I have to write that up again, whenever I restart my (virtual) Amiga.

np. but i dont understand. redo what, whenever you restart your (emulated) amiga?

2 questions:
- I can undo mistake in modeler. Can I undo in layout?
- Whenever I move object (or camera, or light), I need to place a keyframe for them to stay in place. Is that a must?

- no undo in layout (AFAIK) - so save often (SHIFT +S)
- yes, no auto-keyframe feature (AFAIK) - just push "return" key twice, so make a key for current - selected - object/cam/light

#1) cool image.

#2) manual of lw 5

[d4rk3lf]

Originally Posted by emufan

np. but i dont understand. redo what, whenever you restart your (emulated) amiga?

I need to retype this:
assign toaster: dh1:toaster
assign 3D: dh1:toaster

Otherwise, it won't start Lightwave. It's not that hard for me to retype this anytime I retstart workbench, but I am wandering if I can make workbench "remember" that.

Btw, thanks for the great LW tips.

[emufan]

Originally Posted by d4rk3lf

I need to retype this:
assign toaster: dh1:toaster
assign 3D: dh1:toaster

Otherwise, it won't start Lightwave. It's not that hard for me to retype this anytime I retstart workbench, but I am wandering if I can make workbench "remember" that.

hmm, there are now 3 icons , Lightwave / Modeler and Assigns.
assigns-icon should make those assigns, by double click on it. there is no window pop-up, you can double click as offten as u want.

if you have 2 icons only, redownload the archive. it is about 77mb.

Btw, thanks for the great LW tips.

np. every little bit does help, i know that myself

[emufan]

this example was already posted earlier, but since someone has to start, i post it again:

i was playing with the effector plugin, which comes with lightwave. example scene and objects below.
tube, sphere and NUll object. NUll is parent of sphere object, so you move the Null-object, to actually move the sphere.
tube got the displacement-plugin "effector", in its dialog you type in the effector name, in this example it is Null (case-sensitive).
then you can move the effector (Null-object) near the tube object and see what happens.

example anim and scene at the link above.

#1) btw. it's of good use, if you add an example scene of your tutorial.
replace big objects with simple cubes and spheres to save some space,
or add the scene file itself only

#2) if you want add a little gif animation you can use ffmpeg, for example:
- resize anim to 78x60 at 3 fps ==> 1200kb --> 148kb

 ffmpeg -i DragonsLair.anim -vf scale=78:60 -r 3 DragonsLair.gif

[Muadib]

Here's a pic from WIP, converting/correcting geometry and adding lights and thrusters to a Viper Mk. 2 for LW5 usage.

Brb

[emufan]

now I want to see it in motion

[Muadib]

It's coming, modelling attitude thruster flames atm...

[emufan]

Originally Posted by Muadib

It's coming, modelling attitude thruster flames atm...

yeah, those tiny animated bits make a big difference.
I remember the Babylon5 DeltaFighter scene, which has some nice animated thrusters aswell.
pretty cool things ppl achived with the "limited" lw releases for the amiga.

[Muadib]

Originally Posted by emufan

yeah, those tiny animated bits make a big difference.
I remember the Babylon5 DeltaFighter scene, which has some nice animated thrusters aswell.
pretty cool things ppl achived with the "limited" lw releases for the amiga.

Oh yes!
The other day I was checking the Benchmark scene folder and I was like,
"Why do they save the scene with only 1.1 Meg Segment memory?"
and then it hit me that they didn't have much RAM back then!
Ron Thornton had said in an interview "We cheated", refering to some texture trick IIRC...

[Muadib]

I was checking the Effector plugin,
it seems that it only identifies Null Objects or an object's Center Of Gravity(Pivot?) and that it only assumes them as spheres, correct?

[emufan]

alot of the example scene are set to have 1mb segment memory,
it is the first thing I change after loading a scene

it's been a while since i made the effector example scene.
IIRC it was restricted to a sphere, but later versions had an option to fit the shape of an object.
there are some simple effector tutorials on youtube, but I cannot find them atm.

#1) here is a good tutorial - for a later version of LW.
I guess this was the blueprint of my own experiments with LW5:
[ Show youtube player ]

#2) the size of the deforming sphere you adjust by resizing the null-object.

[Muadib]

#1) Thanks, I'll check it out

#2) Oh, I didn't know that, I was trying to do it through the requester. Will try!

Cheers!