Forum: Animation


Subject: Help animation environment

digitek opened this issue on May 24, 2002 ยท 10 posts


Bobasaur posted Wed, 12 June 2002 at 6:17 PM

I'm on a 350 mhz G4 (1st generation!) running system 9.1 and 512 megs of RAM. I've got PoserProPack running with LW 6.5.

I've read that there were problems with PoserProPack and LW 7.0 - the threads seemed to indicate that it worked better with LW 7.0b.

I'm not sure how well it's (PoserProPack) working with LW 7.5.

I've been able to integrate Poser animations and have them actually interact with Lightwave stuff. I've found that when you import the Poser scene into LW, LW recreates all the objects as .lwo files. I take those files and refine the textures so everything looks better. I haven't tried changing the meshes or replacing objects yet but that'll come sooner or later. I actually render alot faster in Lightwave too - that's good.

In my case, Lightwave hasn't been a problem. I picked a humongous first project though, (a 4 piece rock band, 3 dancers, 6 armed warriors, and a baby - choreographed to an original piece of music) so I've been challenged by the sheer scope of what I'm trying to do. On second thought, maybe Lightwave has been a problem. It's expanded my possibilites so much that I don't have time to do everything I want. Work keeps getting in the way.

It's a curse [grin].

Thank goodness I don't have to model everything myself (as some would suggest!!!!)

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