topic Re: Lightworks Water in Visualization

Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:25:39 GMT

I dont know if anyone else has been struglling with this, but it is driving me bloody insane! Has anyone managed to get decent looking water in LW. I have tried manipulating the standard .lwa file, tried wrapped bump mapping, adding reflections, refractions, colour and I cannot get realistic looking water. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated! Just post your images of water in renderings along with the LW settings. I will post an image of my water when I get to a stage where I am getting closer to decent images, at the moment I am a long way off!!

Cheers

Bryan

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Tue, 03 May 2005 05:03:26 GMT

Just happened upon this tip (from Dwight, naturally) today.

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=3975

cheers

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Tue, 03 May 2005 07:16:44 GMT

Thanks for helping a fellow kiwi out! I was reading back through a few posts about getting sky reflections in windows when you use the LW background render, so I tried applying this to water and it worked out ok. Still needs a bit of work to roughen it up. I am looking for a farily sketchy feel to the finished render. But I am just trying Dwights water settings now, which will probably look infinitely better than mine! Will post the result tomorrow.

Cheers Stuart

Bryan

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Tue, 03 May 2005 07:33:54 GMT

Here is the image using Dwights water. Not sure why the slab around the water's edge has become so saturated, but the rest of the water looks good. What do u think?

Bryan

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Tue, 03 May 2005 12:41:27 GMT

Hello Bryan,

I have been reading this forum for many months now, but among these smart people like Dwight, I never felt that I could add anything to the conversation.
But I did some testing on the water subject a few months ago, when I started to play around with the lightworks engine.
Here is what I came up with. See the attached picture. I used textures for these, but I can post those too, if you are interested. I saved all the settings, and the pln file, so it can be reproduced. Of course, every scene is different, so a little tweaking will be needed when you use these settings, but it should be a good start.

I will post a scene where I used one of these settings.

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Tue, 03 May 2005 12:44:32 GMT

This was my first render with Lightworks, back in February.
I moved on to Cinema 4d right after that.

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Tue, 03 May 2005 12:46:04 GMT

Off-topic

Same scene in Cinema 4d.
(First try with C4d)

Re: Lightworks Water

Dwight — Wed, 04 May 2005 10:17:29 GMT

vey challenging space, this.

Re: Lightworks Water

Djordje — Fri, 06 May 2005 07:50:58 GMT

Now Art•Lantis R?

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2005 11:14:31 GMT

yes,,, i can test it with art*lantis r...

someone can give me the file?...pla.format please.

regards

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2005 13:07:40 GMT

email me and I will send it to you.

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2005 17:12:43 GMT

ok here it goes, image done with Art*lantis R

-i change some textures and the background ( more like Portugal :p, where i live)

800 X 531 size

high radiosity

1 hour and 1 minute of render time

hope you enjoy

Re: Lightworks Water

Dwight — Fri, 06 May 2005 17:28:44 GMT

the water? how?

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2005 17:32:45 GMT

Hi dwight,

i have used the new water shader from the media library of beta 7.0

it works really fine and can make very different results

regards

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2005 18:01:19 GMT

Very nice. Similar to my C4D image.
So radiosity does work the same in different softwares.

When you get to this point only the textures could change the quality, I think.

We should try vRay also.

Re: Lightworks Water

Djordje — Mon, 09 May 2005 17:20:53 GMT

beton99 wrote:
Very nice. Similar to my C4D image.
So radiosity does work the same in different softwares.

Still missing the softness of the deceased Lightscape ...

BTW, Retirado, that amount of light is too much for around here, let alone Portugal 😉 See Dwight's rendering. That is the correct illumination, and you don't have to put lights on the floor in R 😉

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Tue, 10 May 2005 09:00:43 GMT

yes Djordje .....it's true..

this image was made with only one light source, the sun (and a little bit of skylight)...

in art*lantis r you don't have to make those boring tricks like fakiosity

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Tue, 10 May 2005 11:08:54 GMT

Very nice image, like it a lot. Just one thing though, what library are the "sky hooks" in that hold the handrails up? And where do you buy real ones?

Re: Lightworks Water

Anonymous — Tue, 10 May 2005 11:16:57 GMT

I know. Sorry, I never finished the modeling for that scene. I was more anxious to use the rendering programs than do the proper modeling. 😉

Re: Lightworks Water

Djordje — Fri, 13 May 2005 05:24:52 GMT

Retirado wrote:
yes Djordje .....it's true..

this image was made with only one light source, the sun (and a little bit of skylight)...

in art*lantis r you don't have to make those boring tricks like fakiosity

Yes, I know ...