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Rendering Trees in Lightworks

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:38:31 GMT

Hi All,

Recently I have been working to upgrade the landscape in my renderings (inspired by Dwight's trees). When using the Garden Works 3D trees, I get much better results with the internal rendering engine than I do with light works. In my renderings, it seems lightworks isn't as good as the internal engine when it comes to "knocking out" the multiple billboards that make up the leaves on the trees. Can anyone give me a tip on how to get lightworks to better render 3D trees?

Lightworks rendered tree attached.

Thanks!

Don

Re: Rendering Trees in Lightworks

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 04:10:16 GMT

Same tree rendered with the internal engine...

Re: Rendering Trees in Lightworks

stefan — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:43:59 GMT

I tried it with a default bitmap tree from ArchiCAD and the anti-aliasing settings can make a difference, but it also seems that the image object gets rendered in a strange way: mapping problems occur and the surface is reflective, where it should, in fact, be unaffected by the lightsources.

It is better when I set the object to use the object's material, but the halo around the image is not gone.

Seems to be some bugs. Maybe it's in the GDL code, since there the real LightWorks commands are passed through the engine.

The Garden Trees are written a long time ago (IIRC) and they might not be compatible with LightWorks.

Re: Rendering Trees in Lightworks

Djordje — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:37:08 GMT

Did you guys try updated GardenWorks library from GDL Central?

Re: Rendering Trees in Lightworks

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:40:57 GMT

yes - udpated and installed the new verson last night. The renderings I posted are with the new verson

Re: Rendering Trees in Lightworks

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:01:54 GMT

Did you make the render with the best quality settings ? It makes a big difference when using textures ...

Re: Rendering Trees in Lightworks

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:10:07 GMT

ArchiBAM doesn't work for my AC 9.
Shall I update?

Re: Rendering Trees in Lightworks

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 13:50:36 GMT

Thanks Martin - changing to best settings (anti aliasing & rendering) seemed to solve the problem. Attached is a rendering of garden works trees (3D) with lightwork,so the updated garden works library does well with AC 9.