topic Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!! in Visualization

FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Dwight — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:43:51 GMT

I think that Graphisoft should completely implement the LightWorks Rendering features in Archicad.

Do you agree?

Visit

http://www.lightwork.com/

to see what this rendering engine can do once completely implemented in an application.

Vote Essential.

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:32:53 GMT

Dwight wrote:
I think that Graphisoft should completely implement the LightWorks Rendering features in Archicad.
Do you agree?

YEAH MAN!

We want full LW 7.6 features and a decent Material editor with a real-time preview window with drag-and-drop features.

Just for the start! 😉

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:38:33 GMT

LW shows what we can not make with GS.
LW 7.6 shold be updated with AC 10!!!!!!

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

__archiben — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:58:44 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Vote Essential.

love to. where's the poll?

~/archiben

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:12:15 GMT

One question? If we were willing to pay the difference, what would it cost? Could it be implemented? What would need to be changed / added by GS?? Just wondering.

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Dwight — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:16:54 GMT

I can't make a poll.

I tried to cancel the message.

It didn't work.

Someone else please make the poll.

It HAS happened where the radiosity function costs more. Form Zee for instance.

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

__archiben — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:22:43 GMT

Dwight wrote:
I can't make a poll.

have you been banned for causing dissent? i'd better watch out . . .

(start another one . . ?)

~/archiben

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Rob — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:49:18 GMT

the poll created at:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=11783

bring it on...

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:14:58 GMT

Radiosity takes time to render it.
Why must GS choose the worst one from LW?
I want to try LW with other programm.
Does have somebody experiance with it?

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:37:26 GMT

Archi wrote:
Radiosity takes time to render it.
Why must GS choose the worst one from LW?
I want to try LW with other programm.
Does have somebody experiance with it?

Try turbocad professional, it has radiosity enabled lightworks, and it only costs a few hundered bucks

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

David Collins — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:44:36 GMT

Its hard to disagree with the idea of a fully-integrated full-featured top-of-the-line photorealistic rendering component in ArchiCAD, but I think I will anyway.

Truth is, if the OpenGL rendering engine in the 3d window could cast shadows and maybe handle three light sources, I could easily accomplish about 90% of my rendering needs right there in the 3d window, where I already have real time walkthrough and fairly sophisticated editing capabilities.

That's where I'd like to see Graphisoft invest their time and resources.

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Dwight — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:26:51 GMT

Oh, yeah? I wish we had shadows in OpenGL, too, but I'd also lke to get my hands on these LightWorks features: - attached.

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Dwight — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:11:25 GMT

AND THIS:

http://www.lightwork.com/products/sketch.htm

what about this?????

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:38:59 GMT

Dwight, what year was it when we walked the Siggraph floor in San Diego? I remember showing you the screen with the real time demonstration of the cell phone. Then you initiated the conversation with the LW rep. - informed him about GS ArchiCad, etc. ( I think that was the catalyst for LW integration)

From their web site:

As part of the Company's strategic development plan, LightWork Design is working closely with the leading graphics hardware suppliers, e.g. 3Dlabs, ATI and NVIDIA, on the integration of products and shader technology with their hardware, so as to maximize the benefits for customers and their users. At SIGGRAPH, LightWork Design has demonstrated the benefits of LightWorks Real-time:

We should have had all of this long long ago.

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Dwight — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:58:54 GMT

This might seem overly critical, but sometimes I feel companies include features in their software so that resellers can point at them.

Not that they work well, or completely, or like certain web sites might imply.

I refer not only to the Lightworks implementation, but the Align Tool, also.

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:20:54 GMT

The LW-website is just to show how bad LW in AC is.

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:49:49 GMT

What is the current Graphisoft story line on full implementation?

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:59:40 GMT

One good reason not covered in the previous comments is- why implement the full lightworks in ArchiCAD?

Well - if you go to the trouble of setting views up properly in ArchiCAD using the LW renderer, you can automate the whole process - update your model and you can automatically update the renders on your layout pages.
This alone is a compelling reason.

But I agree whole-heartedly with Dwight - why implement something so half baked? The useless (read: buggy and slow) materials palette compounds the problem, and an upgrade of this item also needs to be included in this wish.

Given the paucity of the interface and materials palette we have gone back to using Artlantis for rendering - and upgraded it to Studio.

Life wasn't meant to be so hard!

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:40:58 GMT

Recently I made a small rotating animation, with a number of frames that would normally provide a steady smooth path, but it was so jerky. Is there an issue with the cameras too?

Re: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTWORKS NOW!!!!

Rafal SLEK — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:23:34 GMT

In my opinion problem with LW in AC is that the implementation is rather rough
than it has too little options (comparing to the features from LW web site).
Small previews, mysterious text parameters for shaders in Material editor, unhandy material choosing, rendering speed and its suspending, lack of real documentation is a good start for new features in following Archicad.
It would be fine to see radiosity (is it real radiosity or only a global illumination?) in Archicad but I'd like rather lights adjusting easier and more predictable.