topic Re: A problem with Materials in Visualization

A problem with Materials

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:42:20 GMT

Hello!
There is one thing I cannot understand when rendering my own materials with LightWorks Rendering Engine. That´s how I make the materials: I at first make them in Internal Engine and then change into LightWorks material, where they change themselves into something else...:S I just don´t understand why don´t they stay the same? What am I doing wrong?

Re: A problem with Materials

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:06:00 GMT

You need to click on the "Match with Internal Engine" button in the materials dialogue to transfer settings across to LW.

Re: A problem with Materials

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:21:24 GMT

Yes, I know it and I also do it. After pushing the "Match with Internal Engine" button the duplicated texture changes, but it doesn´t look as good as it looked in Internal Engine. It changes in LightWork...in something totally different.

Re: A problem with Materials

Dwight — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:39:53 GMT

This matching process is imperfect.

You'll be having light reflection problems - your diffuse reflection is probably set too high.

Please post three things:

the texture image
the internal view
the liteworks view

Re: A problem with Materials

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:37:57 GMT

It is the texture. It looks a bit better, I made it smaller for the post.

Re: A problem with Materials

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:38:39 GMT

It is Int.Engline view

Re: A problem with Materials

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:39:16 GMT

It is a LightWorks view

Re: A problem with Materials

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:43:31 GMT

Materials options

Re: A problem with Materials

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:46:32 GMT

Post a shot of the Lightworks Shader Settings tab please. That's the important one! If you could show the settings for all the 'classes' (Colour, Reflectance, Transparency, Displacement, Texture Space, Pipeline) it should be easier to work out what the problem is.

Re: A problem with Materials

Dwight — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:12:34 GMT

Here's the problem:

Aside from the fact that you present an impossible dialog view [the lightworks engine with internal engine adjustment sliders] that makes me suspect that you have a huge installation problem, you have called a number of alpha channel effects that cannot be applied through a JPEG image. OF course, it might only be jpeg for posting to the forum....

Turn these off in the internal engine, then rematch in LightWorks.

Post again.

Re: A problem with Materials

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:17:59 GMT

I´m sorry for making so much trouble here, but I understood the problem.

The problem was, that I tried to make my own textures by duplicating ArchiCad materials with reliefs. After I took usual paint-material, which did not have any relief, my own textures became what they had to be.
Still thank you all for the help!!:)

Re: A problem with Materials

David Maudlin — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:59:47 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Aside from the fact that you present an impossible dialog view [the lightworks engine with internal engine adjustment sliders] that makes me suspect that you have a huge installation problem, ...

Not impossible, it is just that he has not checked the "Disable Unrelated controls" check box, so all the material settings are visible, rather than just those settings for the selected engine. If he had this box checked, then his solution might have been more obvious.

David