DustinBrown
06-20-2008, 07:00 PM
I want to add some of my Lightwave work to my rigging reel. I already have the shots rendered and they look good, now I basically just want to go back and re-render them, but only render the rigs so I can overlay the rig objects (bones, nulls, splines) in post.
This is what the LW docs say: "Null objects appear in the Layout window as six-pointed stars or jacks; however, they never render in an image. [...]"
Here are two options I'm aware of, but I don't particularly like either:
1) Create proxie geometry to represent my bones, nulls, and splines, link the proxies to the original "helper" objects, render the wireframe of the geometry.
Pro: I'll get a clean render
Con: Gigantic pain in the ass
2) Set my background color to green, do a screen capture using either the Preview tool in Layout, or Camtasia, then key out the green in post.
Pro: Fairly easy
Con: Will almost certainly look bad, and Camtasia doesn't capture at 30fps.
Ideas are appreciated.
Thanks,
Dustin Brown
This is what the LW docs say: "Null objects appear in the Layout window as six-pointed stars or jacks; however, they never render in an image. [...]"
Here are two options I'm aware of, but I don't particularly like either:
1) Create proxie geometry to represent my bones, nulls, and splines, link the proxies to the original "helper" objects, render the wireframe of the geometry.
Pro: I'll get a clean render
Con: Gigantic pain in the ass
2) Set my background color to green, do a screen capture using either the Preview tool in Layout, or Camtasia, then key out the green in post.
Pro: Fairly easy
Con: Will almost certainly look bad, and Camtasia doesn't capture at 30fps.
Ideas are appreciated.
Thanks,
Dustin Brown