Re: FLASH: Lightwave into flash?

[John Dowdell]

At 9:39 AM 8/7/0, Krista McLean wrote:

> does anyone know of a reliable way to use lightwave content

> with flash? ...Manual tracing makes my little project almost

> impossible time wise, so looking for another solution...


If it takes too long to trace, it will likely take too long to download

too! With the SWF file format each new piece of artwork adds to filesize,

and you can then manipulate each sprite at fairly low cost. The key to

efficient filesizes is to minimize the number of media elements.


This article contains more general background to those coming to SWF with

video experience:

"Flash for Videographers and 3D Animators"

http://www.macromedia.com/go/14494


You might want to consider using a Lightwave toon shader (cel shader?

cartoon shader? I'm not sure which name they use). This can give you the

nice contrasts that work well in vector descriptions.


You might also consider requesting that NewTek implement direct-to-SWF

rendering and Shockwave 3D export... right now they're getting many

requests for both, so adding your vote could help swing things, thanks.


jd






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