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[Anonymous]

Hi everyone, I´ve recently discovered this forum and found a lot of useful tips and tricks that saved hours i would spend to find them out I´m a bit dissapointed that lightworks rendering engine is only briefly described in AC user guide, so i can´t wait for the Dwight´s new book - is there already a date of coming out ?

I´ve just graduated from faculty of architecture in prague so i´ve attached a sample from my diploma project - my first one done in AC 9.0 ..

[Anonymous]

Your camera matching method is really very nice.
It would be guite nice, if you can teach here with some pictures, as Dwight alos does.
Give and take
OK?

[Anonymous]

Teach ? Me ? Ok, listen carefully : set the photo as a background and try to match it somehow with your model. Repeat 100 times


No, really - it´s easier that there are no certain points to match, as the building is detached ... there´s a box shaped building in the scenery (not visible) so I made a model of it in my scene, aligned the view and ficed it manually a little bit - ordinary method, I think ...

[Anonymous]

Hi Martin,

It's a nice trick - thank you. Will use it from now on cause if you render the background in AC you won't have control with it like what you did in Photoshop where you were able to make some features (trees) sit infront of the model (by erasing part of the image

[Dwight]

Other reasons to keep the render separate from the background is to allow for adjustments of the two components separately from each other to match brightness and color balance.

[Steve Jepson]

Martin wrote:
Yep, it´s been made only in AC 9.0 and enhanced in photoshop. I got the 9.0 just about three weeks before completing the project, but I was pretty happy with the result, especially when considering my low level of lightworks knowledge. The building is a design center for a czech car manufacturer - Skoda Auto, it´s proposed for developing new cars and prototypes, analyzing other manufaturer´s products and some administration. In the fron part of the middle "tower" is a big car lift that transports the cars to different levels and attracts pedestrians from outside.

how did you make the ripple reflection on the water ?

[Anonymous]

Congratulations, Martin!
Very nice building!
May you build one like it sooon! 😉

[Anonymous]

very nice, can we see some floors

Tks

[Anonymous]

2steve: The reflection on the water is just photoshop - mirrored object, distorted with filter ...

2kliment: thanx, i´m working on it

2spider: here´s a layout of the ground level