http://vbulletin.newtek.com/ This is the Official NewTek discussion forum. To find out about NewTek and our 3D, Video Editing and Animation products, visit http://www.newtek.com en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:02:55 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.newtek.com/forums/enlighten/misc/rss.jpg http://vbulletin.newtek.com/ http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103971&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:35:55 GMT I'll probably be crucified but think this is an interesting piece of computer History if you don't already know;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A

- The problem was the magnesium box... beatified though in Aluminum these days! ]]> LW - Mac meshpig http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103971 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103970&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:35:37 GMT Looking for any information on the Lightwave to DTS Exporter from Gnometch. Their site hasn't had any updates for a while. Does anybody have any tips or new documentation? Looking for anything that would help us. We have switched back to the Lightwave as our primary program. I have used it since 03, and I am happy we are switching to it.

We use it for the Torque Game Engine. I have tried the garage games site and no documentation on it. Thanks. ]]> Game Development juniordebo http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103970 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103969&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:04:19 GMT Looking for someone trustworthy to help complete your next project?
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Visit Studio Render Inc. ]]> adailide http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103969 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103968&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:00:40 GMT Speed Modeling Challenge #65- My Home Is My Castle -------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************* Rules: 1. Every week there will be a subject for you to model along with a time limit. You should spend no longer than... Speed Modeling Challenge #65- My Home Is My Castle
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Rules:

1. Every week there will be a subject for you to model along with a time limit. You should spend no longer than the allocated time, then post a render of your model. As in most challenges like this, your honesty on modelling times is essential. How you interpret the brief is up to you as long as the final model conforms to what is asked for.
2. Post a render of your model (min 800x600 pixels) in this thread with a wireframe.
3. LightWave should be used for modelling. 3rd party Plug ins are allowed.
4. You can enter as many times as you like, posting each in this thread. If you run over the time, the model can still be posted but won't be subject to the judging.
5. Time spent on texturing, setting up a scene for a render and rendering is not included in the allocated period.


**Please mention whether or not you would be happy to share the model.**

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Lightwave Speed Modeling Group

Castles or anything castle related.

Build a gate house, a tower, a keep, an old cart from the stables, a throne, a torch, you all known the sort of thing I`m talking about.
Have fun
Time Limit - 60 minutes.

Deadline - Friday 27th November 2200 hrs GMT ]]> LW - Community R.Feeney http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103968 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103967&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:50:08 GMT Does anyone remember the flat tire video tutorial (I think William did it), that used dynamics to flatten the tire. I thought it was on the Newtek site. Thanks Jon Does anyone remember the flat tire video tutorial (I think William did it), that used dynamics to flatten the tire. I thought it was on the Newtek site.
Thanks
Jon ]]> LW - Mac symko http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103967 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103966&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:31:00 GMT I look in for to buy Lightwave 9.6 Full commercial Licence (USB Key).
Just APP + USB dongle.
Note: Please don't offer version 8.0 or 9.0 i don't need any traning DVD's or manuals. ]]> Buy/Sell/Trade - LightWave 3D Related Jullia http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103966 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103965&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:05:03 GMT so after dragging my feet for centuries im going to build a new dedicated 3d system and upgrate lw from 8.x to 9.x and go 64 bit etc etc. ive asked around for advice regarding what kind of hardware platform to go for, and thought it would be insane to NOT ask the other users and techies what... so after dragging my feet for centuries im going to build a new dedicated 3d system and upgrate lw from 8.x to 9.x and go 64 bit etc etc.
ive asked around for advice regarding what kind of hardware platform to go for, and thought it would be insane to NOT ask the other users and techies what they consider to be best.
ive been informed that the I7 has some kind of threading technology which makes it optimal for lws rendering etc, so im after some feedback and advice as to whether this is true, if theres anything better, and whether its worth trying to cram several I7's into one shell?

id love some feedback please.
cheers
G ]]> LW - PC psychostyrene http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103965 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103962&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:34:17 GMT Hi, I hate selection in Layout. Honestly is just terrible. i want to play with Character Picker Plug-in but does it work with the latest version of LightWave? Do anyone have video tutorial CCP_CustomObj_Demo.avi , cannot find anywhere. The original link is down. :( I found this:... Hi,
I hate selection in Layout. Honestly is just terrible. i want to play with Character Picker Plug-in but does it work with the latest version of LightWave?

Do anyone have video tutorial CCP_CustomObj_Demo.avi , cannot find anywhere. The original link is down. :(
I found this: http://www.jacobobarreiro.com/html/s.../ccp_docs.html but I am big fan of video tutorials. :) ]]> Soth http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103962 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103961&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:14:31 GMT $9.99 plus a mail-in coupon from Cheez-Its and a childhood desire is fulfilled. It's like the short sleeved captain's shirt from the recent movie. It's a nice, decent quality shirt too.

And I wore it to work. I got the gold one. Red shirts die first and blue shirts have to actually work.

]]> General Discussion shrox http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103961 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103960&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:48:21 GMT I was going to show a friend of mine a few features of LWCAD. And I hit the online LWCAD manual, and boy was I surprised when it said there was a 3.5 update to the manual, which should've been released november 19..

Did anyone get a newsletter? I sure haven't, but I'm pleased to see the new updates in the manual! ]]> LW - Community OlaHaldor http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103960 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103958&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:47:45 GMT Any ideas please. I have sent my Tricaster Studio to tech support twice with the same problem. It has come back with the problem not fixed twice. I have been using Audio-technica omnidirectional ATR35s lav mics for a year and a half doing live streaming internet shows. They have always worked... Any ideas please. I have sent my Tricaster Studio to tech support twice with the same problem. It has come back with the problem not fixed twice. I have been using Audio-technica omnidirectional ATR35s lav mics for a year and a half doing live streaming internet shows. They have always worked great until recently. With all audio settings at normal setting the level is peaking at -15 to -20. Before I would have to pull down the audio. Now I can barely hear it. batteries are good. Any ideas? ]]> TriCaster Community David in TN http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103958 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103957&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:29:12 GMT I feel like this is a really basic question but I'd appreciate some thoughts.

My goal is to have a simple emitter create particles that travel along a wind animation path, simple and easy enough. The particles themselves I want to be simple squares. So I've been using FXlinker, which works more or less but is really slow and becomes a pain when the particle count gets 'high' (say 2000 particles across a few emitters).

Is there a way to get particles to look like simple squares without having to replicate an object through FXlinker which just makes my scene filled with thousands of unique objects?

It's a mess to have them all show up as objects, I'd prefer them just to be 'particles' controlled only by the emitter.

2D(and sorta 3D) programs with emitters like Motion do this really well, anything similar in Lightwave?

Any thoughts?

cheers ]]> General Support crpcory http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103957 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103954&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:03:27 GMT Background:
We've been streaming sports for two years now. High School Football games usually take about 3 hours of streaming. Basketball games take about 4 hours because we stream both the boy's and girl's games, back-to-back. We use Time Warp when filming football, but we don't use TW when we do basketball. We always backup to tape, either way. This football season we started using Highwinds "ability" to archive our FLV stream at the same time we were streaming at 508Kbits. We have never had any viewer say that their stream was ever interrupted. It's worked flawlessly from a consumer's perspective.

Hardware:
Tricaster Pro with all current s/w versions and patches (that I'm aware of).
Backbone of school network is 24,000 kbits (Yes, it's a huge pipe)

Problem:
What is actually happening in the background is another story all together. Obviously we want to archive the FLV up to Highwinds at the same time we are streaming so that we don't have to capture from tape (AVI), render to FLV and then ftp back up to the CDN. This takes many hours to do. What is happening is that once the 3-4 hour stream is finished and we pack up and go home, when I login to check on the archived FLV files, I sometimes see 3-5 different archives of varying sizes. Never have I logged in to Highwinds and see a single FLV file per event streamed. When I check with Highwinds here is what I get from their support staff, who, let me preface by saying "are a great bunch of folks to work with." Last email from them to me:
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"The archiving system (Highwinds) works off of start and stops at the ingest server.
These events can be triggered either by an encoder stopping, or by a loss of connection from the encoder and the ingest server, most likely due to network problems in between. I see in the logs that multiple starts and stops occurred for those archiving sessions. Do you still have the encoder logs for those events?"
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Back to my problem:
So, after all that verbiage, in order to troubleshoot this problem, I need an encoder log from the TCP. Since the TCP is using the Adobe encoder, where do I find the log and what is the name of it? Any help would be appreciated. ]]> TriCaster - Troubleshooter SportsJunkie http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103954 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103953&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:20:24 GMT Superb just broadcasted 5 minutes ago, its all the cbeebies characters / channel 5 and others from fifi the flower tots to postman pat ............ SUPERB composite and visuals will be on youtube soon ,.......................................... Superb just broadcasted 5 minutes ago, its all the cbeebies characters / channel 5 and others from fifi the flower tots to postman pat ............

SUPERB composite and visuals will be on youtube soon ,.......................................... ]]> General Discussion OnlineRender http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103953 http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103951&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:44:28 GMT Just found this very excited to see http://www.realflow.com/ Just found this very excited to see

http://www.realflow.com/ ]]> LW - Third Party aidenvfx http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=103951