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#1002

Long live the King of Lightwave!

HAHAHAHAHA :scream:

#1003

What about the Mullah of Mudbox?

#1004

The obvious: “The Houdini of Houdini”. :smiley:

#1005

what about…

the Maharajah of Max!

#1006

Czar of Zbrush is better.

#1007

Loved the picture Ha Ha Ha.

  1. Sadly they are real :frowning:

  2. No I’m not from Argentina or the moon :P, though i did live pretty close once “we had penguins and land mines!”.

  3. I am British and am living in England/Wales.

  4. As for leaving the job earlier, i should have done but couldn’t as I had no money and a job is better than no job, plus i had a 6 month lease on that room and couldn’t afford to loose the deposit. I had also just left Uni so was pretty green myself, i did look for better jobs at the time but it was difficult with no experience. As for staying as long as i did, well i was worried about what a future employer would think about someone who left a new job a few months after starting. I also didn’t know Lightwave so at first assumed the best.

Anyway back to “king of Lightwave”.
I’m starting to find it harder to think of things he said/did that were funny without some knowledge of LW but I will keep it simple.

For the first few months “King of Lightwave” had been sending me project folders which he had organized in a manner no lowly commoner would. He would call the folder that contained the project something highly descriptive like “untitled folder 2b”. This sort of naming convention or lack there of really annoys me! But sadly it gets worse. Inside this folder would be all the images, objects, scenes and surfaces the problem was that Lightwave uses a specific file structure by default, and deviation will cause Lightwave to ask you to locate the missing files. Up until then not knowing any better i would just locate each file as requested, the problem came when i started using more textures and objects as the projects become more complicated, “king of Lightwave” would arrange his folders so that the

images folder was called “Maps”,”Photos”,”untitled folder1”or ”Textures”

objects folder was called “Meshes”,”Parts”, “untitled folder”, ”Stage”or “Stuff”

scenes folder was called “Layouts”,”Finished”, “untitled folder2” or “Old”

surfaces folder was called “Textures”,”untitled folder3” or ”Saves”.

This would cause Lightwave to ask you to locate images and objects every time you opened the scene. I eventually asked:

“Locating files like this is a pain, can you not assign a default pathway?”

“Uhm pathway?”

“Directory, folder for it to look in that is relative to the scene file”

“No its cuz we moved it about you have to find the files again!”

“Yea i know but you should be able to tell it to look in a folder that is relative to the scene file”

“Its fine you just have to tell it where the files are stop being a dumb”

I was getting annoyed locating files all the time so did a quick look on the net and found a pretty decent tut on Directory Structures that quickly got me up to speed in how to use Lightwave.

“Got it! Your naming convention is wrong”

“Naming what!”

“The way you name folders you have to do it in a specific way!”

“Why! Its all ways worked like this in the past.”

“In order for Lightwave to automatically find the files it has to be set up like this”

“its all down to personal preference really”

“what!”

“you can name it like that if you want but my way works fine”

“.!.!.!.”

I assume that still to this day he uses no naming conventions, the number of times I wouldn’t be able to find, a file:

“Whats it called”

“untitled folder, something”

“I cant find it there are to many give it a proper name”

“Just tell finder to arrange by date modified, I did it yesterday.”

“Cant you just send me it”

“No, I don’t know where it is”

I once got a .PSD of the guy that was for a slide show, he had used the layers for each slide but most had more than one layer per slide in total about 80 layers i think, all called “Layer 1”, Layer 1 copy”, “Layer 1 copy 2” there was no order to it he just created the slide and hid the layers and moved onto the next giving it to me to put in director.

“How am I meant to know what text, image, title go with what slide”

“What slide”

“Slide 3”

“I think the title is about half way down and the text is near the top, i think it didn’t have a picture but i am not sure”

“How am I meant to know that?”

“You will just have to go through and match them up”

“How? A don’t know what goes with what!”

“Huff, What do you want me to do?”

“give the slides names and color code them for Title, Text and Image and put them in layer sets and give them names that match the slide number”

“I don’t have time to do that”

“I don’t have time to go through this mess and put it all back together”

“its never caused a problem in the past”

“Who sorted through all this in the past”

“Me!”

“Well you knew where the layers where!”

“So!”

“…! All i ask is for you to at least put them in layer sets then”

“How long does that take”

“?”

“If its complicated like those droplets then its not worth it”

“You don’t know what a layer set is?”

“We never got showed Photoshop at Uni”

“But you said you left Uni 5 years ago”

“We don’t need all this Photoshop stuff you keep going on about, we were fine before you started!”

“?..”

When ever he didn’t know something or did something wrong he would go on about how crap his tutor was at Uni and that he never got tort that! I mean he was somehow unable to learn new things all he could do was what he had learnt at Uni and thats how the Studio was run.

We were working on some instruction manuals for a “Famous Vehicle Company”, it was really dull work just 2D BW thick and thin stuff, the guy on the other end was taking screen shots of what he wanted and we where tracing them of, but we needed more detail and he said he could send us the cad files. In the end I said they would have to out put them to Lightwave as we couldn’t open the cad files they had. He got back a few hours later and said that they had all the stuff in Lightwave already and he had put them on the server for us. I was a bit skeptical that they would be any good coming from cad but when we downloaded them i was so surprised i almost Screamed like a girl at a boy band festival.

Somehow this guy who was doing manuals had gotten hold of the Lightwave files that there marketing department use, we had 3 fully rigged “Vehicles” complete with photo realistic surfaces and lighting setups :D, i was drawling as i played with the suspension rig :P.

I can only imagine one of the following scenarios:

[ol]
[li]This guy just ransacked there company server.[/li]
[li]He had asked some temp at the graphics department for the files.[/li]
[li]There graphics department had met “King of Lightwave” and deduced he was no threat.[/li]
[/ol]

Anyway the “king of Lightwave” found fault, and disapproved of what we had been sent.

“Its no good boss its going to take me ages to get this ready, all the mesh is broken up”

“What its fine theres nothing wrong!”

“Its corrupt or something!”

“What it loaded fine on mine”

“When i try and bring all the objects into modeler it keeps crashing”

“What are you doing in modeler?”

“Its all in pieces we need to put back together before we can move it!”

“Its fine, Its in pieces so you can move all the different bits like the suspension and steering”

“No its quicker to just put them all on one layer, you cant move it unless its all one object otherwise it will just falls apart”

“What! No its fine don’t mess with it just load it up in Lightwave”

He closed modeler and loaded up layout to find a perfectly rigged “Vehicle”.

“Whats all this CAD crap doing here”

“its not “CAD crap” its the controls for the rig so you can animate the “Vehicle””

“We don’t need to animate it we only need to be able to take screen shots”

“The controls let you move it like it does in real life look”

I showed him the suspension and hydraulics controls.

“is that all done in CAD, we should get that it would come in handy for animation”

He then grabed the “Vehicle” not the rig controle and pulled part of the car away from the rig

“See its all messed up”

In the end he butchered everything, he deleted the rig because it kept “freaking out” and the light setup because “We don’t have a render farm” only to replace it with a single liner light that so poorly lit the scene that it was no easer to trace the images than it was form the cad screen grabs.

In many ways it was like giving a Neanderthal a encyclopedia and watching to see what he would do with it.

#1008

1000th Post Woot Woot

“Couldnt help it LOL”

#1009

Man… Lightwve and its content directory…

A Lightwave scene works kinda like HTML. The scene file is just a text file that says “open this model at this location, open that model at that location, etc…”, like how HTML files say “Open that JPG file from that location…”. By default, LW tries to make all the paths relative to the folder you set, just like in HTML image paths can be made to be relative to the current domain. Etc. It’s a blessing and a curse. It’s great because you can skip the whole ‘drive letter’ BS. It’s a curse, cos when it breaks, well if you don’t know why, it’s a very difficult problem to track down.

When I first started in Lightwave, it was all set up for me, so I didn’t know that the feature even existed. One of my coworkers, I’ll call her Sally, went to Newtek for a week of training, vowing to come back a better artist than me. (Her personality is a lot like Alice from Dilbert, and she didn’t want to ask me or any of the other guys for help.) Not long after she returned I started noticing problems whenever I opened my scene files. It kept asking me where one of the objects was. At first I assumed it was a fluke, but it was happening awfully regularly. I was reasonbly productive in Lightwave, but I didn’t know it inside and out. I remember looking through the options panel, but the settings were all gobble-de-gook until I got to the last panel… “Content Path: C:\Sally”

I just changed the content directory back and let all her shit break. :shrug:

#1010

Another great one spiderpig, thank you very much.

Anyway, if I had to work with this guy, I would either kill him or myself.
It’s unbelievable you’r able to stand this guy. :argh:

#1011

Fiuuu, what a relief! You’re not from Argentina, and not from the moon either!? I KNEW IT! you lier! lol

I starting to think that it’s wrong to laugh at KoL, the guy has to have some clinical issue, he behaves like I couldn’t imagine in my worst nightmares ever!

I pretty much admire you man! but the loss of patience is beggining to show in the dialogs! lol I still can’t believe you hadn’t kicked his ass yet! Keep’em coming! Can’t get enough of the King.

#1012
  1. As for leaving the job earlier, i should have done but couldn’t as I had no money and a job is better than no job, plus i had a 6 month lease on that room and couldn’t afford to loose the deposit. I had also just left Uni so was pretty green myself, i did look for better jobs at the time but it was difficult with no experience. As for staying as long as i did, well i was worried about what a future employer would think about someone who left a new job a few months after starting. I also didn’t know Lightwave so at first assumed the best.

**** that, I’d rather starve!:scream: Besides, all you had to say to future employers was “…does the name ‘King of Lightwave’ mean anything to you?”:smiley:

#1013

Ow EEEEKKKKK, my sides are hurting, I can’t take it anymore. :scream:

Great read Spidy,… thanx mate.

#1014

spiderpig you should compile all your posts about king of lightwave

#1015

very funny thread and heres a small dialog between me & a coworker:

me explaining :ok you can close the window now (autocad)
she gets up and i ask where are u going?
reply: to close the window
:cool:

#1016

@NanoGator: Bet she loved that…:banghead:

#1017

I got frustrated with KOL just by reading your post spiderpig. He’s obviously a retarded moron that has no idea what he’s doing and is unwilling to cooperate in the workplace. I wonder how he got hired in the first place.:curious:

#1018

OMG, I couldn’t stop reading “The incredible adventures of KOL”

If I would have known this earlier I would have send you a free copy of “Lightwave 9 Texturing” Geez

#1019

Wow, having read some of these threads… all I can say is they are both hillarious and incredibly informative. Lessons learned before I’ve had to learn them, thanks!!

#1020

As a “Lightwave Peasant” I would like this so called King…

Maybe a revolution is in order…

#1021

At my first job, I had a smart ass manager who prided himself at how much of a blatant ass he could get away with being. So his motto became “Better management through negative reinforcement.”

I’d often hear things like “You’re the best artist in your pricerange,” and such gems as “Hey, we’ve never had a bathroom conversation before.”

And I wanted to keep it that way.

I ended up getting laid off from that company, then quickly got re-hired by another company in the same area, in the exact same industry, so there were quite a few people there that I already knew, having worked with them.

So smart ass manager eventually got fired from that job and interviewed for a management position at the one I’d just been hired to work for. So many people complained about how bad he was, and at least one guy threatened to quit if he was hired, and he was pretty much black listed and didn’t get the job.

Now I hear he’s teaching high-school drumming for the band. I feel sorry for those kids.