A buddy of mine is sending me his copy of the VTC Training DVD but it is for LW 7.5c but i can still use that to learn the basiscs of all the controlls the only thing that will be realy different is the hotkeys but thats no biggie.
Actualy i did try changing the menu layout but i still find i have issues with TUT's that don't include setting for LW 9 Speacialy the Sheild tut that is for LW 6 for some reason i can't quite get it to work. Theres gotta be some thing i am missing.
Oh got those training videos from my buddy there are 159 of them i am on 110 most insightfull as to what does what.
And is there a better way to do explosions with hypervoxels one that doesn't take 1hr to render with only 60frames?
Nope you've got it. I think I mentioned before that Lucas film used a combination of stock footage and particles (HV's) for episode III, of course Georgie boy has a vast amount of computer resource at his disposal so rendering a few particles isn't a problem.
Us mere mortals generally have one or two PC's at our disposal and sometimes even they are not dedicated 'graphics workstations'.
Your particles could be rendered in a seperate pass with alpha channel data and com'p later on, either way is still time consuming but at least you could render your particles without ray-traced shadows etc... (which slows down particle rendering big-time).
here's one I did with hypervoxels about 3 and a half years ago, it renders pretty quick but andrew is right, you really should be looking for stock footage, it'll look more realistic than anything HVs could do, most CG explosions are done with in-house software like what DD did with stealth, you'll find even the big studios like ILM prefer to use stock footage and only resort to CG fire when they really have to, in the opening battle of revenge of the sith there were only 3 cg explosions - the rest was stock - which were rendered with some fire shader in houdini, definatly stuff that LW can't do
however, I would use HVs to create a 3D mask for the stock footage, making it appear more 3D against the objects it's appearing from, also render your HVs without any motion blur, it's 5 passes minimum for classic motion blur in LW, if you turn AA off completely and have no blur you'll reduce your render time down to 1/5 of what it was before, then when you apply your motion blur in post it'll smooth out and look so much better because of the slight randomness you get with having no AA
it's slow but you can get better results than with default HVs, in the animation you can see the single particles on the left, and the blended particles on the right, and it's a good example of the temperature controls and particle rotation that default HVs don't have, the fluid simulator part of the plugin is even better, you can see the great motion you can get with it in my post below
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But if reading the manual will tell me more on how to do things in LW then sure why not.(looks for PDF)
Well worth the effort.
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Oh got those training videos from my buddy there are 159 of them i am on 110 most insightfull as to what does what.
And is there a better way to do explosions with hypervoxels one that doesn't take 1hr to render with only 60frames?
Hypervoxels are a volumetric element and they will take a long time to render.
There's nothing you can do about it regrdless of whatever 3d app you're using.
Is there a better or should i say less render intensive way of doing explosions in LW?
Us mere mortals generally have one or two PC's at our disposal and sometimes even they are not dedicated 'graphics workstations'.
Your particles could be rendered in a seperate pass with alpha channel data and com'p later on, either way is still time consuming but at least you could render your particles without ray-traced shadows etc... (which slows down particle rendering big-time).
however, I would use HVs to create a 3D mask for the stock footage, making it appear more 3D against the objects it's appearing from, also render your HVs without any motion blur, it's 5 passes minimum for classic motion blur in LW, if you turn AA off completely and have no blur you'll reduce your render time down to 1/5 of what it was before, then when you apply your motion blur in post it'll smooth out and look so much better because of the slight randomness you get with having no AA
http://www.lwg3d.org/upload/general/2006/01/9161-16-448735.avi
it's slow but you can get better results than with default HVs, in the animation you can see the single particles on the left, and the blended particles on the right, and it's a good example of the temperature controls and particle rotation that default HVs don't have, the fluid simulator part of the plugin is even better, you can see the great motion you can get with it in my post below
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/3d-questions-answers/3383-kawoosh-3.html#post69165
Detonation Films -- Some free samples here; some commercial stuff.
Artbeats - Royalty Free Stock Footage For the Video Professional -- Commercial stuff.
Or just Google stock footage.
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