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asha_hardwire · 04-03-2009, 03:40 AM

I was trying the free tutorial by William Vaughan over at the newtek.com lightwave training modules and he showed a neat trick of projecting images as particles (sprites to be exact). He used it to show bullet casings ejecting.

I tried the technique using .tga, .jpg files of words for a project and while Viper displays the words perfectly, when I hit F9 the render it shows me is reversed! Mirror imaged!

It is really annoying and I spent a good hour trying to fix it and found out that if I used the Classic Camera, the render will come out nice and proper. I was using the Perspective Camera at the start. The same problem even occurs when using the Advance Camera.

My question is why is this glitch popping up? What if I need to use the Perspective camera for a scene AND need to use this sprite projection trick as well in the same scene?

Thanks for reading!

asha_hardwire

PS
By the way, what is the difference between the Classic Camera and the Perspective Camera?

04-03-2009, 03:40 AM	#1
asha_hardwire Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 36	Sprite projection and Words Problem I was trying the free tutorial by William Vaughan over at the newtek.com lightwave training modules and he showed a neat trick of projecting images as particles (sprites to be exact). He used it to show bullet casings ejecting. I tried the technique using .tga, .jpg files of words for a project and while Viper displays the words perfectly, when I hit F9 the render it shows me is reversed! Mirror imaged! It is really annoying and I spent a good hour trying to fix it and found out that if I used the Classic Camera, the render will come out nice and proper. I was using the Perspective Camera at the start. The same problem even occurs when using the Advance Camera. My question is why is this glitch popping up? What if I need to use the Perspective camera for a scene AND need to use this sprite projection trick as well in the same scene? Thanks for reading! asha_hardwire PS By the way, what is the difference between the Classic Camera and the Perspective Camera?