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Here are some nice settings for some shiny Red Paint that I made.
After you enter those then click the reflection tab and click reflection options, select Ray-Tracing + Spherical Map. Then under Reflection Map choose a spherical map that you may have. If you don't have one then I'll email u one. Now, for a Chrome texture just select the Presets button (located directly under Viper in Layout, and directly under Image Editor in Modeler) then open up the pull down menu at the top and select metals, then select chrome.Then feel free to tweak the textures to you're liking.

hi, im having trouble with the reflections tab, it is blanked out for some strange reason, im not sure if it has somethin 2 do with the thing i have marked, i click on it but i have no idea how to cancel it,

also i was just wondering, does this happin 2 any of u guys, when im in layout, and i got 2 save all oblects, my pc usually seems to crash, the program ends up not responding and stuff :(
sometimes i might be able to get away with it and the pc will be ok but usually i have to shut the program down, then restart :(

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O, my bad, I just realized that it isn't called the reflection tab, but the enviroment tab. Sorry. Hold down shift and click the little E to turn it off. Then click the little T and select remove texture. Here is what it should look like. Sorry for any confusion.

very cool Harley ;)

ok, here is an early render with textures :p

what u think, i only got 1 light-source....i think i need another.

its just a sky light

ehhhh, wtf has happined here...........

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ohh man, i suck at textures and scenes,..........is that right, should my surface editor be that dark behind the sphere it isnt in modeler, :confused:

Looks like you might have hit the "Light this thing psychadelically and make the render look crap" button by accident. Baad trip. Sorry, haven't a clue what happened there :(
But getting back to your previous render, yep need more than one light.

:P here is an update, this has no anti-A on it, was takin ages to render :rolleyes:

what u guys think, by the way does lightwave have HDRI and how do i use it :P


:bandit:

Yep, we have HDRI!

http://www.newtek.com/products/light...ad/index2.html

ok, im trying to load a hdri probe image, but it wont let me, whats wrong ?

cheers :P

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Ok, first hit the compositing tab near the top and make whatever image you want to use as your HDRI as a background. Then take it off. Now your image will appear in the ImageWorld Menu. Hope this helps.

here is my 1st render, but im not sure why there are all those wierd black dots on it ? and the shadow :confused:

:bandit:

right, ive only been using lightwave for about a month now, and im already pissed with it :confused: i mean why the hell does all this stuff happin, like the wierd render above, to the we black dots in the render, and now this.... i load my bike in my scene, then when i add me ground which is a flat 1000m X 1000m pologon, and my scene screws up, everything gets super smal, and i cant zoom in on it :bored:

i need help....

pic 1, bike loaded :D

pic 2, ground loaded, and everythin goes wierd :(

maybe this will help!! press d in layout and then turn "Fixed near clip distance" on!! then give it a value of 100mm or something!! maybe you have to set it higher or lower depending on how big your object is!!! im not sure this will help, but at least you should give it a try :)

btw...very nice looking bike!!