Can i.. with painted shader

jimmahbee · April 10, 2013, 12:22:00 AM

yes neither Vue or terragen work...both won't import the model properly...I've tried every export method that Lightwave has to offer and nothing seems to work plus I've opened the model and exported from PoseRay and still it's not working...I'm sure it's just 1 setting or something I'm not doing...once again thanx for your help...it's invaluable

Oshyan · April 10, 2013, 01:18:18 AM

Unfortunately I'm out of ideas, but it seems to be more of a Lightwave issue than a Terragen one. Perhaps the Lightwave community would know how to solve it?

- Oshyan

Dune · April 10, 2013, 02:57:30 AM

Did you weld the poly's and recalculate (smooth) normals in Poseray?

jimmahbee · April 10, 2013, 05:09:52 AM

trying to figure out how to do that...is it a simple step or complex?

Dune · April 10, 2013, 06:11:38 AM

Easy. You can choose the parts that need smoothing of normals by unchecking ones that don't in the left row of parts. If you want it all smoothed pick a degree (180 degrees is all extremely smooth, which you get by clicking smooth) or type in your own. First click weld, the recalculate... easy.

jimmahbee · April 10, 2013, 07:27:40 AM

I really appreciate your help... unfortunately it didn't work...Vue likes MAYA models so maybe I can get my stuff into MAYA and export it ...we'll see thanx again..Jim

jimmahbee · April 10, 2013, 04:02:14 PM

Once again thanx for all ur help...I found a way to make terrains work in Lightwave...I had to go into Vue and export a terrain @ 4096x4096 that took care of all the anti aliasing problems...now to get the texturing to work as well...you really answered my questions quick though...Jim

Matt · April 13, 2013, 10:14:36 PM

jimmahbee,

The problem is in the shadows, not the normals. You will need to subdivide your model further in Lightwave to produce a smoother surface.

Matt

jimmahbee · April 14, 2013, 03:31:35 AM

oh ok cool thanx! I'll try that!

jimmahbee · April 14, 2013, 04:01:35 AM

Wow it actually worked! I didn't even take it into PoseRay yet! I tripled it in Lightwave and then subdivided it using the smooth setting! I'll try subd ing it again and then take it into PoseRay to see what it does...THANK UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUu

P.S. I added a reflection shader...awesome...!