BSG Lightwave Pictures TOS

gmd3d · May 10th, 2005, 02:39 PM

ATLAST I have BSG pictures to share with you all
The Models are Stevew's and pixeltek Keeping it in the family.......

OOOPS I forgot to add in the Models builders area that Stevew's model was converted to Lightwave by : Fabio (Lightwave) and Darrell Lawrence (Minor Modifications) i WILL correct that tomorrow

Sorry Darrell any chance of converting Steves other meshes

Titon · May 10th, 2005, 07:46 PM

Hey Taranis, thanks for sharing your wonderful pic. I see your getting a hang of lightwave, keep up the good work.

As far as i know most of Steve's meshes have been converted to lightwave format.

Fragmentary · May 11th, 2005, 12:23 AM

Nice work Taranis! Nice to see Galactica getting a little render time in with the Trek

gmd3d · May 11th, 2005, 12:36 AM

Frag:

BSG pic are been planed as I write this...

thanks Titon LW is lost of fun and renders quicker that TS ? which is great and does not sock up as much RAM FROM stevews model. I only have the one at the moment

I will have to locate the other of Stevew LW conversions.

Darrell Lawrence · May 11th, 2005, 12:44 AM

I *think* I have them all posted over at 3D Gladiators.

gmd3d · May 11th, 2005, 12:46 AM

I will run over there now..............................................................................BYE SEE YOU IN A BIT....................................................................................................

gmd3d · May 11th, 2005, 01:03 AM

There is 2 Galactica's one in LW 5 and the other 7 ... I have the 7 Stevew has a number of new Galacticas for download and others again.. What is the best way to convert the models if I where to try myself I have most of them in TS

Darrell Lawrence · May 11th, 2005, 01:31 AM

...oye.

I've used a number of techniques for converting Steve's meshes. For some reason, his tS ones are hard to do. Geometry gets screwed up, surfaces get fubared.

If one way doesn't work, then I try another.

Most of the time, I have to actually re-surface the models. so I end up exporting his models in pieces.

3D Explorer will convert most formats, but has a hard time with his (might just be RAM issues for me)
When that fails, I use PolyTrans. And when that fails...
I export his models using the OBJ format exporter. Then convert from OBJ format to LWO format.

Titon · May 11th, 2005, 05:08 AM

Taranis i'm sure there's a way we can get them to you.

Do you have webspace that we can upload to?

Stevew · May 11th, 2005, 05:51 AM

Every thing I have is here
http://www.firedragon.com/~cfleets/d...notforrel/?M=D

I wish I could find a better way to get out of SW to LW. I have a filter but those who tried it did not seem too happy with it so I have to go with STL to obj and it has some unwanted artifacts. Don how do they get from SW to LW at Zoic?
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Titon · May 11th, 2005, 06:05 AM

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Don how do they get from SW to LW at Zoic?

They don't. LOL.

Actually most of the time Steve everything is rebuilt. I really don't know of anything other than poly trans to convert SW to LW.

Stevew · May 11th, 2005, 06:14 AM

At the Con one of the guys from Zoic said they used SW maybe I was mistaken.
Did I send you the conversion that I did with the LW filter I got for SW?

gmd3d · May 11th, 2005, 06:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Titon

Taranis i'm sure there's a way we can get them to you.

Do you have webspace that we can upload to?

Only a Yahoo group

that all.

gmd3d · May 11th, 2005, 06:31 AM

I have corrected the modeler names ..

Darrell Lawrence · May 11th, 2005, 06:49 AM

The Defender, Protector etc should be at 3DG.

I'll check later today.

Don, as for space, there is a reason I have that location where Steve has his meshes...

Now if someone wants to upload the LW versions already done that has DSL....

Titon · May 11th, 2005, 07:46 AM

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Now if someone wants to upload the LW versions already done that has DSL....

EEP!

I think i have stored all the conversions from when Fabio did them. I'll take a look.

Yeah i have them but looking on Steve's link they seem to be all there as well. Speaking of Fabio is that guy still alive? Yeesh haven't seen him in months'

gmd3d · May 12th, 2005, 08:10 AM

Here is a Reworking of the the other picture I moved the Viper and removed the trails.. I think it look better and Tried to give the effect of a movie screen ...I had to reduce the size of the pic because my hosting site won.t handle to big.

I am working on adding a nubula in the background for effect

Darrell Lawrence · May 12th, 2005, 08:18 AM

Best way to add a nebula in "stills" is to use a background image.

That is, unles you have the objects (like the "G") *IN* the nebula.

gmd3d · May 12th, 2005, 08:19 AM

anyone know where I could get a Nebula effect for LW???

Darrell Lawrence · May 12th, 2005, 08:40 AM

Background image or rendered FX?

Background, just do a search for nebula in either Google or Yahoo's Image search.

If ya want the rendered FX, Lightwave makes use of Hypervoxels for that.

gmd3d · May 12th, 2005, 08:42 AM

Hypervoxels Got you. have see that while learning lw

Fragmentary · May 12th, 2005, 12:15 PM

Hey Taranis, again you've outdone yourself. Its pretty cool that you can see the improvment with each new pic that you do. This latest one is much nicer than the earlier takes.
But the glow on the viper engines kind of make them seem much brighter than the galactica's. Shouldn't the G's enormous engines also have that? Probably even more intense than the viper's smaller ones.

gmd3d · May 12th, 2005, 01:38 PM

yeah next stage I have to see how far my PC can work with LW. twice it has had to close LW for some reason...
Warrior I noted that when it needed to close I was playing some musice on Window Media Player.. should that be a No No.. considering that I have 640 RAM ??? just a thought... and I cut out when Pressing the F9 button?? Your thoughts ..

I have a new pic coming same style differant angle

Darrell Lawrence · May 12th, 2005, 02:00 PM

Check your hotkeys.

gmd3d · May 12th, 2005, 02:08 PM

Hotkeys Ok I have not done that yet...

Darrell Lawrence · May 12th, 2005, 02:12 PM

....and unless you have super duper mega amount of RAM, playing music on th ePC at the same time as using LW = UGH!

I have that problem all the time.

gmd3d · May 12th, 2005, 02:21 PM

Thanks Oh might Warrior...

I am happy to have a LW pro on call

any future plans on building more meshes your self for BSG ...

Stevew · May 12th, 2005, 03:42 PM

Don, Darrell I uploaded a LW conversion of a basestar from SW
http://www.firedragon.com/~cfleets/d...notforrel/?M=D
It is huge but I was able to load it in LW6.5. If you LW pros want to DL it and see if it works maybe it is a way to get from SW to LW. I know the file size can be made smaller.

gmd3d · May 13th, 2005, 03:14 AM

That model look great I can't wait to get it

Huge is right I am going after it right now...

I would like to see the later Galactica meshes converted .. "the Big G" just a thought

Stevew how do you like the pictures I have done with your Galactica...

I love the new look for the site

gmd3d · May 13th, 2005, 03:20 AM

Cylon base ship 47.8M is one big baby.. I will have to wait untill I have a few days for that

wish list Broadband internet access.
Steve I take it that the RAR files are Lightwave???

I can start working on Dark Exodus with Lightwave then ... I seem to be able to do more with LW than TS in regards to setting up and rendering pictures..