[davie563]

hi, im working my way through the water tut from this site, im at the bit where u add gradients to the texture of the waves, when i watch the video he pulls a few sliders down to make the gradient lighter, but it dosnt let me pull at the slider, what am i doing wrong ?

is there a key aswell to press to create a new slider?

cheers

[Cchristensen]

My guess is you are trying to pull the top gradient slider and that one doesn't move. Click on the gradient colorbar itself and a new slider.

[davie563]

lol, cheers man.
now i can get on with it, im really enjoying it, great tut

cya l8r

[Johnny9ball]

Awsome when you get a render pop it up for us to see.

[davie563]

hi, yeah, ill have an image up soon, oh by the way, last night i did some of the texture stuff, and before i quit i pressed 's' and saved, when i loaded up the file 2day none of my textures were there, have i done somthing wrong ?

cheers. :p

[Cchristensen]

Where were you doing your textures? Layout or Modeler? If you are working in Modeler hiting 's' should save everything. If you are working in Layout you need to use one of the 'Save Object' options.

[davie563]

ahhh, ok, cheers, im workin in layout, so do i just go to save all objects ? will that save everything ?

[Cchristensen]

It will save all the objects including new surfacing. Use the regular save to save your scene information.

[davie563]

hi, im gettin Pi***d off with this, saving system, ive been using the save all objects command, and when i come back im at square 1, i fell like smashing my comp. and now my viper isnt working, when i render a screen and then open viper it does nothing, and i have ticked the box for enable viper, it says (none) next to it ? ohh well im really enjoying it, but nobody likes redoing bits over and over, plz help

[davie563]

hi, here is a screen of what i mean, viper isnt workin, and i dont know why, im sure it didnt used to say ' none ', and can some1 plz tell me how to save its drivin me crazy,

cheers

[Johnny9ball]

Go to the file dropdown then save then select save all objects.

[R4s1n]

Ummm make sure that Viper is running while you are rendering the image. IF that doesn't work then after the render is done go to 'Surface Editor' and it should render it out in Viper. It's a weird bug but that always happens to me.
Hope everything works out.

[davie563]

hi, im using save all objects, but it dosent seem to be working, ohh, by the way, if u create a background in layout do i have to save the scene file for that to save ?

[Cchristensen]

Yes to the background. I don't know what is going on with your other problem unless you are saving all objects in Layout then going back to modeler and it is reverting back to old settings. It can be goofy like that sometimes. Try adjusting the surfaces in layout and then going back over to modeler and saving there. There will be an * next to the object name if it has been changed since last saving so it can clue you in to whether modeler is seeing the changes made in layout.

[davie563]

hi, finished the tut, really enjoyed it, now im goin on to a car tut i found, so i can get used to the modeling in lightwave, here is a render of a frame from the movie :p

thx for all the help

cheers


ps. im using ver7 and i noticed that some of the sky techniques didnt turn outt he same