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My first real picture with LightWave 6.5!

David of MacDavid of Mac Elite RangerCa
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Recently I found a copy of LightWave 6.5 on eBay for cheap. Thanks to a small vacation, I first installed LightWave late friday night. I played around with it for a bit, punching out the occasional test render, until I believed I had reached the “Mediocrely competant” stage of still rendering experiance.

I've decided that, until I get the hang of Lightwave, I'm going to try to recreate some of my older renders, made with Ray Dream Studio 5.5. I can't seem to find my original description of this first picture, but it had something to do with a pair of White Stars being ambushed by the Shadows, at which point one opened a Jump Point while the other attacked the shadows to buy time so they can both escape.

Anyway, [url="http://homepage.mac.com/david_of_mac/.Pictures/Babylon%205/run.jpg"]here's the original Ray Dream render.[/url] Credits: White Star, Jumppoint, and nebula: Kier Darby, Shadow ship: Nadab Göksu.

And [url="http://homepage.mac.com/david_of_mac/.Pictures/Babylon%205/runredux.jpg"]here is the Lightwave version.[/url]Credits: On the image [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]

I'm not quite happy with the LightWave picture, so in case someone else shares my feelings, I'll let it be known that the first picture was done with at least eight months experience in Ray Dream, while the new one is the benefit of two days of experience with LightWave. And thanks to the magic of LightWave scenes (beautiful, [i]tiny[/i] LightWave scenes, that don't store all of the data internally), I can revisit it after I get a bit more proficient.

[This message has been edited by David of Mac (edited 09-29-2002).]

Comments

  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    Here's another one that, while based on the same theme, with the same objects and all that, turned out a lot differently. Here's the original description. [quote]On it's trial run, Blue Star 1, escorted by two White Stars, tests it's new micro jump engine. The small point opens and remains stable during the transports passage, allowing the Blue Star and the Micro Vortex Generator to come into mass production.

    White Star, Nebula, and Jumppoint by Kier Darby.
    Blue Star by James Reading. [/quote]

    Here are the two pictures.

    [url="http://homepage.mac.com/david_of_mac/.Pictures/Babylon%205/bluejump.jpg"]January 21, 2001, rendered w/Ray Dream Studio[/url]

    [url="http://homepage.mac.com/david_of_mac/.Pictures/Babylon%205/Bluejumpredux.jpg"]August 27, 2002, rendered w/Lightwave[/url]

    And before anyone tells me, I know I have to manually reapply the underwater texture to the Blue Star in the second picture. A side effect of being a little behind the times.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Nice pics. The first set's star flares seem a bit overdone though [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img].

    I'm curious, why did you pic such a narrow height? I'd love to use that 2nd one as a background, but its about 300 pixels too short for a normal 1024x768 background.

    --RC
  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    Because I love widescreen. Those renders are, more less, the same ratio as a wide screen movie. I think it makes the pictures seem bigger and more cinimatic.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    It does, but it makes them unusable as desktop backgrounds [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    Not for me. I plop them in black bars with a logo in the upper left corner, allowing for plenty of room for icons without obscuring the image.
  • Falcon1Falcon1 Elite Ranger
    Not bad! You know if you have a nice widescreen Apple Cinema display, these pics come in pretty handy... but I don't unfortunatley... would be nice though.

    So how do you find Lightwave then?

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  • Captain,SimmondsCaptain,Simmonds Trainee trainee
    Nice battle [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]

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