Rendering a movie screen

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to do a rendering of a movie theater with a movie on the screen. I've tried using a tv with a custom picture on the screen but it always renders too dark, I want this thing to have some glow.

Any tips or tricks?

[Anonymous]

Dwight kindly posted an excerpt from his book "Lightworks in Archicad" some time ago. First post in THIS THREAD has the PDF file which explains it for you. If you want more I recommend the book (if it's still available).

[Karl Ottenstein]

Good catch to remember that Dwight posted that PDF, Stuart!

Arlouper, as an aside, if you want an animation (e.g., walkthrough) that shows an actual movie playing on the screen, Archicad cannot do that, but Artlantis can (movies can be textures) - although you have limited control of playback speed of the movie applied to the screen there.

Cheers,
Karl

[Dwight]

The book is still available and has several electronic updates to remain current with improvements [as meagre as they are] in Graphisoft's implementation of LightWorks since 2005.

See my signature for ordering.

[Anonymous]

Fellows,

thanks very much, it looks like this pdf about the plasma will answer my questions.

[Anonymous]

Karl wrote:
Good catch to remember that Dwight posted that PDF, Stuart!

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Cheers,
Karl

I'm Dwight's biggest fan! (Anyone familiar with Misery, by Stephen King?)

By the way, Dwight, are there any updates we should know about for Lightworks in AC15? Or have you given up on LW altogether?

Cheers

[Dwight]

There's a few new materials, but no new processes since Archcad 10 where they brought in the ray-tracing sun making the sun object obsolete except as a fill or Hellezon [sun from Hell].

I will be attending to this matter soon and will post the update for all on the forum.

Thiings are slow since I am focused on SketchUp as I am now the Western Canada Certified Trainer. SketchUp makes architecture into a video game. But you knew that.

Now, can you loosen the restraints a little? My legs are already broken.

[Anonymous]

This question made me think of an animation I did a while back. I used Cinema 4D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7MF3Ikkg-k