Lightworks Water

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

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

cheers

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Off-topic

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

[Dwight]

vey challenging space, this.

[Djordje]

Now Art•Lantis R?

[Anonymous]

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


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

regards