Stormy Ocean Tutorial
 

Dude!!!!! I love it!!!! I love the way the tutorial is presented and it rocks!!!

However, I am having problems rendering it. How did you get the DIVX Movie Compressor thingy loaded into Lightwave? At the part when you save the animation as... you then pick the video format. What do you have to do to get the DIVX video format put into the Lightwave program? ... I DO have DIVX player 2.0 installed.

It may just be my laptop, but when I rendered the final 500 frames into a movie file, I open it up and it runs smoothly for like the first 5 frames, then pauses and skips tremendously as the movie slider is in motion. You can't see the waves move it just skips.

If you have the Divx codec installed, enable save animation and set the format to AVI. Under options you should see Divx 5.02 listed as one of the codecs. If you don't see it you may not have the full version installed.

Cory

Re: Stormy Ocean Tutorial
 

It depends on the compression-algorithm, the quality settings of it, the processor(the better the proc the faster the decompression-algorithm of the codec can work), the resolution and maybe the video card(some videocards support hardware decoding for video codecs), harddisc and ram.
If I wanna play a 640x480 video with high-quality settings on my outdated system, it`s mostly not possible to get a smooth result(Depends on the visual information and the way the algorithm works)
The divX-codec has more options to influence quality and speed as the standard ones(cinepak, intel indeo, MS vid, etc.).