Electric Rain Swift3D LW 2
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Why am I telling you all of this? Well, just consider it a heads-up: if you're new to LightWave, or just have never manually added plug-ins before, the install process may be a little daunting, but still totally in keeping with standard operating procedure for many LightWave plug-ins. Savvy LightWave veterans, well, I may have just wasted some of your time with this part, as you probably know all of this already. Sorry.
The rendering options in Swift3D LW 2 pretty much boil down to settings that control how your render is filled (fig. 4), whether you want your model outlined and how those lines should look (fig. 5), and a couple of level-of-detail choices (fig. 6). Really. That's all.[an error occurred while processing this directive]
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| Figure 4: Swift3D LW 2's Fill options panel. |
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| Figure 5: Swift3D LW 2's Edge options panel. |
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| Figure 6: You can tweak how your geometry is rendered through these options. |
The Ravix engine includes seven types of fills: Cartoon Single Color Fill, Cartoon Average Color Fill, Cartoon Two Color Fill, Cartoon Four Color Fill, Cartoon Full Color Fill, Area Gradient Shading, and Mesh Gradient Shading (fig. 7).
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| Figure 7: The seven shaders accessible from the Fill options, with Cartoon Single Color Fill on the left all the way up to Mesh Gradient shading on the right. |
Without getting too detailed, these seven fill options represent a sort of sliding scale for how accurately the Ravix engine is going to recreate your 3D content as vectors, with each offering what amounts to a tradeoff between rendering fidelity and file size. Let's look at the two extremes for a second, and I trust you can interpolate the middle options.
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