clagman
08-07-2008, 10:33 AM
Now, I don't want to give the impression that I don't like the plugin (I do) but it is killing my workflow since all the objects that are being instanced are volumetric shading so you can no longer obtain different channels like you can with real physical objects.
The example is the water scene. You can change the specular playing off the water in AE to make it look fantastic (a bit of glow in 32bpc, the hue/contrast, etc). The problem is you have to be able to apply some of the same changes to all the other specular channels in the scene or it all falls apart. HD objects cannot be done this way so being able to get an alpha channel from them really doesn't help. This forces you to set things up in LW as a straight render and you can't change it later without re-rendering.
Problematic for me with clients who can't make up their mind but give us tight deadlines to work with. I wish LW had real instancing...
The example is the water scene. You can change the specular playing off the water in AE to make it look fantastic (a bit of glow in 32bpc, the hue/contrast, etc). The problem is you have to be able to apply some of the same changes to all the other specular channels in the scene or it all falls apart. HD objects cannot be done this way so being able to get an alpha channel from them really doesn't help. This forces you to set things up in LW as a straight render and you can't change it later without re-rendering.
Problematic for me with clients who can't make up their mind but give us tight deadlines to work with. I wish LW had real instancing...