Dutch Windmill with Lightwave & Vue

[Nicolas Jordan]

Here is a still image I am working on. just got Vue a couple weeks ago and used it to render this image. Windmill and house models done in Lightwave.

[JasonE]

nj3Design,
Wow! That windmill is awesome, as is the ighting!
Just got LW (had Vue), and can't wait to model some neat buildings like you have done!
Carry on!
God bless,
Jason

[Gettarobox]

very nice. i have been tinkering with vue a little and can tell you are definitely using it well. did you have to export the windmill to another program to maintain the uv mapping? i had problems with that. really cool windmill and scene.

[Nicolas Jordan]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I had to fiddle a bit with exporting from Lightwave to Vue. I found that I didn't run into any texturing problems as long a I triple polys in Lightwave before exporting. I think Vue seems to render surfaces and textures properly when they are made of 3 point polys. I havent really run into any big UV mapping problems yet though. Let me know if this works for you.

[starbase1]

Thats a very nice sky you have there - I can tell it's not skytracer!

[adrian]

Very nice scene. One question though - why did you not export the trees into LightWave, or is it easier to import the .lwo models into Vue?

I have Vue myself but I just can't be bothered with it :thumbsdow

[Nicolas Jordan]

I found it easier to import the Lightwave models into Vue because I found it saves alot of time when setting up certain types of scenes. I can quickly load up an ecosystem and customise it and just drop in some trees.

On the other hand if I had a lot of Lightwave modeled objects and only needed a few Vue trees in my scene I would consider exporting the trees from Vue to Lightwave instead.

[kopperdrake]

Nice :D Did you have any problems getting both objects into Vue with the same scaling? I recently tried to get a house and the environment into Vue from Lightwave and they both seemed to have their own scales - so the environment was as small as the house!

[Nicolas Jordan]

I havent run into any problems with scaling yet really, although I did have to scale up both objects a bit instead of scaling down the ecosystem so the plants and flowers looked proportional to the buildings.