since update4 lightwave works a lot better,
modeler work fine, but here,
it crash no matter what, on the layout when i try to do a render.

lightwave is my favourite 3d modeler/ raytracer
i can't get it to do a single render :/
someone can help?

@freaks

Yes, it seems LW is too hardware dependent, unfortunately.

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@freaks

I guess that nothing can be done..

I fighted with it yesterday for several hours, but no is no....
Modeler runs fine, so does Lightwave too, but you cannot render with it..

maybe solution might be external renderer?

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@freaks
Set your Os4 machine as a node and do a screamernet render.
It would have to rock now with JIT running!!!

Wardy..

gah!
too bad..

imagine too isn't working, at best it works but render is anormaly long.
like 0.10% every 2minutes ;)
note that it's better than pre3 which was 0.10% every 5 or more..
just for a simple sphere.

no lightwave, no imagine...where is blender ? ;)
i can't get used to c4d.. don't like it.
scuplt4d_os4 anyone ? ;)

@wardyone

err how should i do that?
i never used screamernet before, can you explain a bit?
if i could get renders out of lw by a mean or another that would rock :)
do i need something more than my aone?
do i need more than 1 computer?
or everything can just be done from my aone?

thanx for the help

@freaks
I'm not going to say it's easy. But it's simple.
In your lightwave dir you should find screamernet.
You run screamernet, give it a job number. (there is heaps of other stuff you can do but I can't remember.. been too long!)
Run Modeler and click on SN and try and find the dir the screamernet has it's job numbers in. do a screamer init (with some luck it will find it)
Load the scene you wish to render and of she goes!
I'm not sure where the images go. It's been to long since I've used it.
I'm sure there will be someone that's used screamernet more than I have that would be able to give you more help than I can..

I done a quick reneder with the lightwave scene Blade.lws
7min and 28sec to render frame no1. If I recall correctly that took my 4000 10Hrs or more to render!!!

Wardy...

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Last edited by wardyone on 09-Feb-2006 at 10:46 AM.

@freaks

Have you tested PovRay?

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@wardyone

thanks for the help, i appreciate.
it is possible after all to render stuff with lightwave on amigaone os4pre4 ?
i men i don't need other machines on the network? it can be done on my system alone?

i've found a file called : lwsn.fp in the "programs dir
i tryed to launch it with any argument, i get this:
Usage: LWSN [-1] [rcp]

or: LWSN -2

what is job file? and reply file? what do i type in there?
could you give me and example?
i tryed to type lwsn.fp path:to/lw.scn, i got a grimreaper?
what should i type exactly?

thanks again



@tomazkid
hum, povray don't have a gui, and i can't imagine using a modeler without gui?
it looks powerful though but no gui it's ..

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@freaks

Lightwave is crashing because it is trying to write pixels trough the screen bitmap pointer, which is ending up in illegal memory access. Hovewer, Cobra created an external hack which solved this problem and LW worked just fine. He never released this patch... (Nag him! )

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@Rachy

nice info man :)
such a tool might please lots of ppl,
maybe uploading it on aminet would help.

i pm'ed him now i hope he will answer like:
oh yes, no problem man take it :)

/me cross fingers

@Rachy

So let's hunt down this Cobra guy and pry it from him! ;)

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So let's hunt down this Cobra guy and pry it from him!

I think we will need a Mongoose to hunt down a Cobra.

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@freaks

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freaks wrote: gah! too bad.. imagine too isn't working, at best it works but render is anormaly long. like 0.10% every 2minutes ;) note that it's better than pre3 which was 0.10% every 5 or more.. just for a simple sphere. no lightwave, no imagine...where is blender ? ;) i can't get used to c4d.. don't like it. scuplt4d_os4 anyone ? ;)

Did you try the nonFPU version of imagine?

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@Rachy

Great news Lightwawe work under OS4...That is great news for me friend Condor!!

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Well... Nagging was successful:

LW RTG patch on os4depot.net

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@Rachy

Excellent! I'll have to get my LW 3.5 installation moved over to my OS4 box now!

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Does this just work for the stand alone Light Wave or is there any way to get the one that came with the toaster to work?

@Rachy
nagging successful, thanks to you os4 user can appreciate lightwave again :)
well, thanks to cobra too of course :)

though i'd like to find some tutorial to experiment the screamernet trick revealed on this thread too.

the cobra's patch work without problem btw.
update 4 is very stable, enable you to play for hours with lw,
great job.

Lightrave also seems to be working on OS4. Only thing is, is that the rendering goes pretty much black. It only has display settings that are not for the Radeon of course, but I am wondering if the hack would also work with this program as well as Lightwave.

Another anoyance is that the screen for Lightwave gets clipped on the sides a bit. Other than that it looks like it now works where it didn´t do anything at all before other than abend.

Happy days are right around the corner! Lightwave on OS4, who would believe it could be possible.