Re: Importing 2d animation into a ligtwave scene & Global Illumination


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Re: Importing 2d animation into a ligtwave scene & Global Illumination
by Matt Stewart on Jun 24, 2009 at 4:01:35 pm

First to get your 2d animation into lightwave you need to bring it in as 32bit png's or any other format that has an alpha channel. Then in the image editor you can duplicate the loaded sequence and set the duplicate to be alpha only. Now you have a seperate seqyence to apply to the transparency channel on your surface of the image plane you made. This will make your character appear to be in the enviornment with out the surrounding polygon its on.

About the GI thing though. Are you making a 3d environment using models? GI is really only going to work on 3D objects in the scene. It wouldn't do anything to 2d imagery.

Matt Stewart
www.provismedia.com

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Importing 2d animation into a ligtwave scene & Global Illumination by Stu Gamble on Jun 19, 2009 at 5:49:17 pm
- Re: Importing 2d animation into a ligtwave scene & Global Illumination by Matt Stewart on Jun 24, 2009 at 4:01:35 pm
- Re: Importing 2d animation into a ligtwave scene & Global Illumination by Eric Chard on Jul 2, 2009 at 6:21:57 am

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