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I have no experience of LightWave.. i Desperately need help

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:33:08 GMT

i've finished my building model useing the archiCAD... and i want to render my model useing the lightwave program (i want to make fly-through).... can somebody pls tell me the basic steps because i don't know how to use the lightwave?????

(in archicad) should i go to file->save as-> which format!!!!??? or should i go to image-> create fly-through-> which format?????!!!!.....

(in lightwave) i don't know anything in here .... what shull i dooo...

sorry for disturbing you but it's just that i don't have much time to learn a new program as my Project submission is after 2 weeks....

please try to help me ...

Re: I have no experience of LightWave.. i Desperately need h

Djordje — Mon, 01 May 2006 03:14:35 GMT

You don't have much time for that ...

Why do you not try to do the fly through in ArchiCAD? Supposing that you are on 9, it can be quite good.

Hardly anyone can explain you how to do it in two weeks ...

Re: I have no experience of LightWave.. i Desperately need h

Anonymous — Mon, 01 May 2006 06:27:04 GMT

well.... i'm trying to render a school buildin..... i used few objects for the external view in order to create a fly through useing the windows xp.... but Internally i couldn't reduced the amount of the objects...

Re: I have no experience of LightWave.. i Desperately need h

Anonymous — Mon, 01 May 2006 15:31:56 GMT

Making that in LightWave will not help you so much. I suggest do it in Archicad. If you want essentially better quality (GI, or so) 2 weeks might be not enough to render the thing, not mentioning that you want to use software that you don't know at all. If you don't know how to create fly-through in Archicad read the manual, and come back with more specific questions. Good luck.

Re: I have no experience of LightWave.. i Desperately need h

Anonymous — Mon, 01 May 2006 19:06:49 GMT

i know how to use the archicad and i've finished with the fly-through only for the external look of my building..... but i coudn't create a fly-through inside the building because widows XP gives every program a limite of 2 GB and when i create fly through internally the frames become blank... my computer can't render a file with too much objects inside..... and i don't have Mac nearby...

Re: I have no experience of LightWave.. i Desperately need h

TomWaltz — Mon, 01 May 2006 19:13:11 GMT

ga6wa wrote:
i know how to use the archicad and i've finished with the fly-through only for the external look of my building..... but i coudn't create a fly-through inside the building because widows XP gives every program a limite of 2 GB and when i create fly through internally the frames become blank... my computer can't render a file with too much objects inside..... and i don't have Mac nearby...

You might want to try a few of my tips here:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=50724#50724

Re: I have no experience of LightWave.. i Desperately need h

Anonymous — Mon, 01 May 2006 19:16:06 GMT

If the limit is the size of the file, then render in segments (~1000 frames per segment ?) compress segments and join them, OR use compression (with high quality settings) from the beginning. Remember to use reasonable resolution. High resolution of the movie is big space eater.

Re: I have no experience of LightWave.. i Desperately need h

stefan — Tue, 02 May 2006 06:59:49 GMT

Having no experience in Lightwave, I wouldn't do it in Lightwave to begin with. Unless this is the direction of your future carreer, then go on and dig in. But it takes a long time to master...

Do it right inside ArchiCAD. Start with smaller camera movements, not everything at once.

Render short camera moves, about 200 frames each.

Avoid geometry if it doesn't contribute (e.g. furniture).

Assemble the shorter clips in a longer presentation using video-software.

Learn by doing 😉

Show us the result, please!

Re: I have no experience of LightWave.. i Desperately need h

Anonymous — Thu, 04 May 2006 02:45:14 GMT

Thanks alot everybody....
if i want to show you my work.... my video will be long.. maybe 4 mins or 6mins because there will be a senior project exhibition.... can i attach something big like this?? i'll compress it to smaller size ofcourse....

Re: I have no experience of LightWave.. i Desperately need h

Djordje — Thu, 04 May 2006 03:54:45 GMT

ga6wa wrote:
Thanks alot everybody....
if i want to show you my work.... my video will be long.. maybe 4 mins or 6mins because there will be a senior project exhibition.... can i attach something big like this?? i'll compress it to smaller size ofcourse....

Not really

If you have access to a website to post it, you can place a link here, so who wants to see can download it.

So, what is it finally? ArchiCAD or something else?

Re: I have no experience of LightWave.. i Desperately need h

Anonymous — Thu, 04 May 2006 16:36:43 GMT

i foud out that there are two mac Pcs in the university (not in the civil engineering department) and i'm using them both at the same time so that i can finish quickly ..... i had a problem with oppening the doors... when i choose rebuild object for each frame , after 5 mins the program crashes i dont know why.... so i made the video with doors that are always oppened because there is no time to figure out why is that happening with me.... the exhibition is on the 17th of this month.... wish me luck ... and thank you allllllllllllll

Re: I have no experience of LightWave.. i Desperately need h

Anonymous — Fri, 05 May 2006 15:30:43 GMT

ga6wa wrote:
my video will be long.. maybe 4 mins or 6mins

Don´t do this, please.
Anything over 3 minutes is fatally boring.
If you have to much to "say", get to the point. Show only the highlights of your project.
Render small clips (10 seconds), render high res still images, mix them in Moviemaker (it´s sitting there in your computer anyway)
This small clips should be slow rotations of the camera, maybe a bit travelling (only a couple of meters).
Don´t move your camera unless the movement adds something to your image.
Please, please, don´t zip around like a crazy bee. Trash you flythrough, which is useless anyway.
Be creative.
Have fun.

Re: I have no experience of LightWave.. i Desperately need h

Anonymous — Sat, 06 May 2006 06:24:00 GMT

it will be long movie because i created the structural design for the building and i made a movie for the external look and then walked inside it..... then i created the architectural design for the same building and made a walk through for it externally and then walk inside it to show 2 rooms then go upstairs to show 1 room.... the movement that i've created is not slow and not fast, it's in between.... i hope that i am doing it right....

and because it is for an exhibition i thought of doing alot of things because it is going to be repeated from 8:00 am until 2:00 pm... i think in this way everybody who will come to our group will not leave quickly....