Render to RTV from LW full

[Adrian@Stufish]

I can render to RTV from LW express, but as I have a full copy of LW I would rather run from that. So how ? - is there a .p file I can copy from express or what ?
(I'm finding the that the fastest way to get from image sequences (from my little render farm) into Toaster is to simply load the images as a background sequence and render to RTV)
P.S. my one-and-only LW7.5 installation - all files, configs & everything - is on my server)

[Danner]

I render as .PNG sequences, better than an RTV cause if a frame was miss-rendered it's easy to replace, PNGs are small lossles and support alpha. Then load in Aura as non preloaded sequence and save out as RTV.

[Adrian@Stufish]

I'm trying to avoid multiple timewasting operations - most of the time I'm rendering image sequences to a big network RAID and then importing them into rtv, and I find that is much quicker to do using them as background images in LW ( as I can have a standard scene set up to do it) - aura is very slow by comparison. I'd just rather use my standard LW than th Express version.

[mgrusin]

I installed the full Lightwave on my Toaster system, and an RTV render option did show up in the format list, with no other fiddling from me. I used it for my last project and it worked fine. (There were problems with the two Lightwaves' config files confusing each other, but that's a different issue). I'm not at that machine right now, but I'll take a look later. Did you install the Toaster first and then install Lightwave? That might matter.

-MG

[ldituri]

Yes there is a file called lw6_vt.p its in VT [2] Lightwave/plugins/input-output.

Add to the same directory in Lightwave stand alone. Then select drop down Layout/Plugins/add plugins and your set.

[Sashko123]

Thanks I was wondering the same thing -- no rtv option