All language subtitles for LW_2015_Vol_1_Chap_08_Space_Scene_Proj_and_Final

So, to finish up today,
we're going to build

on the principles
that I just showed you,

but we're going to try
to do something a little

bit more exciting with some
more fun-looking imagery.

We just used a basic
sphere and a ground plane

just to demonstrate
the concept of animation.

But in the end, the
whole point of being able

to animate stuff is
so that we can actually

animate, you know,
some cool-looking things.

So what I'm going to
do is I'm going to load

in a spaceship and a
background prop so that

we can do something
maybe just a little bit

more fun, a little bit
exciting, even though

it's only going to be the same
basic concepts of what I just showed.

But like I said, it should be a little bit
more fun because it will look more like a

movie instead of just
like a ball and a flat plane.

Okay, so what I'm
going to do is first, I'm

going to load up a
model that I made a while

ago for a tutorial and let's go load object
and under our objects folder, I'm going to

go and grab my
starfighter model, I'm going

to grab the starfighter model lightwave
merged so it's not in multiple layers.

And it is loaded my
spaceship, let's turn on

a VPR, oh wonderful, and I've got my normal
maps and everything are already working.

So what the normal
maps do, they're sort of,

they give the sort of
like a bumpy detail.

There's other things
called bump maps, they do

similar things but normal
maps create sometimes

a little bit more
realistic looking bumps.

So you can see all
these panels and detail

and stuff, so those are
what's called normal maps.

If we just go to shaded solid, you don't
see the textures, texture shaded solid.

See how you don't
really, you see the color

information but you don't
see the bump detail on this.

But when you go into
VPR mode, it actually

shows like a rendered
version of this model.

Okay, so that's a lot
more fun than that ball.

So we will take this model and we
will set it up now texture shaded solid.

So what I want to do
is I want to create a

nice little space scene,
nothing super fancy

because we just don't
have time for it right

now because we're almost finished this
tutorial for today but almost out of time.

But what I need to
do is just like what they

do in Hollywood,
they'll have your model,

you'll have your models
and objects that will

be moving and then you usually will
have like some sort of background prop.

Sometimes they use green
screen and blue screen

stuff, or blue screen
and green screen to

mix models and actors and
stuff with a background image.

In this particular
case, we actually have

our own virtual stage
here so I can actually

put the background prop
in behind and we don't

have to green screen
or blue screen anything.

You can mix it or be
mixing it right in here.

So all I'm going to do is take an image
and apply it to a background plane.

So what I need to do first, actually
let's go into, let's first save this out.

Let's go save scene as, and let's go back
to scenes and I'm going to call this space

FighterFlying01.

So let's go into Modeler because I'm going
to create a, it's actually thinking I want

to bring the starfighter over into Modeler
for some reason, I'm not exactly sure why

it's here, and okay, let's give it what it
wants for some reason it wants to, it seems

to want to load this up, I'm going to close
this down, close object, okay, let's just

check to see if it did anything weird
in layout, no, okay, everything's fine.

That's the one thing is
if you have the model

selected it will load
it through, oh, okay,

it loaded everything through but that's not
what we want, we want to close that down.

If I select camera, I'm
going to hit Modeler,

it still brings the
model through so that's

the thing about the
hub, you might say, well

I don't want this
model in here, I want to

do something else,
well, like I said, just close

it out and you'll be
fine, just close the object.

So we want to build a background plane here
right now and I'm going to bring up, click

N for numeric or the
numeric button and actually

before we do that I need
to get the measurements

of an image map that I'm going to be using,
let's go image editor and you can see the

actual image maps
from the Starfighter, this

is the normal map,
that's the color map, if

you double click on them you can actually
see them up large, okay, but I want to load

up, let's go under images, I want to load
up my star field background and you can see

here it tells the size,
6,000 by 3,000 pixels,

so I want something
that has the same kind

of dimensions, I'm not
going to create a 6,000

meter by a 3,000 meter
star field or a background

plate, I'm going to start off, I'm going to
actually make it 60 by 30 just so that it's

not dwarfing my
spaceship when I first bring

it in, but we can size this
up to where we need it.

So let's hit N, okay, now I want something,
actually I'm going to delete that out and

I'm going to create it
from the side, let's go

box because that's the
direction the spaceship

is facing, now I'm going
to go over to height

and depth and the
height was 3,000, so we're

only going to make this 30, the depth was
6,000 but we're only going to make this 60

and we'll just hit spacebar and we're going
to go T for move, control, I'm just going

to put this in the middle
here, okay, perfect.

So that's all I need right
now for my background

plate, now under the
surface editor, or sorry,

let's first save this
out, let's save the

background plate and
we'll call this objects

and we'll just call this star
field background plate, perfect.

So you can actually
apply this star field

image to the background
plate either here in

modeler or in layout,
so generally I usually

will do this, I will
actually do this in layout

for most surfacing, I
generally don't do my

surfacing in modeler
unless there's a specific

work pipeline that I
have to follow, usually

if I'm just trying to
give something colors

to differentiate between
something, so because

that's done, let's shoot
this over to layout,

so let's go send object to layout, okay, so
you can see right here that it has loaded

up our star field plate, we also have our
star fighter, so we can select between the

two objects, if I rotate this, now you can
see that it's, see notice that it's kind of

see-through right now,
because once again I

said that if it's not
double-sided, it isn't

clicked, if it's just a flat one thick, one
polygon thick, it will not, there's really

no thickness so you
don't actually see anything,

so what we're going to
do is go to the surface

editor, under star field, let's rename it,
I'll just call this background plate, and

we will, let's click on, move this over so
you can see, let's click on double-sided,

okay, so you can see
that now we can actually

see the actual surface,
okay, but we're not

done yet, now what we need to do is apply
that image to it, and now because we have

the proper dimensions,
so let's go, and we're

going to use a planar
map, okay, and it's

going to face down, oh
so let's pick the image

first, load image, grab
that map right there,

okay, now let's put it
down the x-axis, and

let's click on auto-sizing,
and actually I'm

going to, let's remove
that for now, I just

want to show you how
this works as it's coming

in, let's move this over
here so you can watch

this happening on the
fly, how I'm doing this,

so if you go under the color channel, and
you click on T for texture, okay, we want

to put that color photo
on top of this model

here, so I'm going
to click on T, and the

layer type is set to image
map, which is perfect,

projection type is
planar, so it'll project

on a plane like this
flat plane that we just

created, now if we
click on image, right now

there's none, okay we
can load the image directly,

okay, and now you see
that there's just these

bars going across, so
that's not very helpful

to us right now, the
reason why is it's because

it's not being projected
on the correct axis,

so we could try, you
can try, a lot of times

people will just sort
of click through these,

a lot of times you'll
know what axis, I know

that it's on the X axis, but the problem is
saying well I just clicked X, why is it not

working correctly, well
because you need the

proper sizing for this,
and you can see that

the scale is set to one
meter by one meter by

one meter, if I click
on auto sizing, you'll

see these numbers will
automatically jump to

the correct setting
to fit that background

plate image onto
this plane, so let's click

auto sizing, you see
how it just jumped, but

if I go to Y and see look what happens, you
get these weird stretchy images, but X is

the correct plane for
this, so from here you're

saying well we need a
lot bigger image plane

for this spaceship to
work, so we could either

shrink the spaceship
down or we could make

this larger, I'm going
to make this actually

larger, this object, so
let's click use texture,

so that's working great, let's go under the
modify tab and let's zoom back, let's pull

back a bit and let's
go to a left view or

left or a fagonal view,
so see where we have

move currently selected, let's go down to
size, and with our left mouse we're going

to drag and we're going to make this a lot
bigger, okay, and another thing I want to

do, let's go up to perspective, and you can
see that the plane is cutting our spaceship

in half, so remember
we have auto key check

marked, so this is
recording what we're doing,

we have it on frame zero, so make sure you
have it on frame zero otherwise we'll have

a problem because we want to set everything
up on frame zero, let's go back to move and

grab the little red arrow widget and just
sort of pull this back a bit and just away

from our spaceship, let's go back to, so I
hope you can see the method to my madness

right here, so what's
going to wind up happening

is with my camera I am
going to position this

so that I can sort of follow the spaceship
sort of flying along, now right now you're

seeing this ugly grid, okay, we can get rid
of the grid if we want to, we can turn that

off but we don't really
need to actually do

that right now, so you
can see like grid type

and then it goes off
and then now you can

see closer to what
where I'm actually heading

with this, so I'll be
taking this camera and

positioning it from
the side and I'll sort

of follow the spaceship
along so that we can

actually create this
nifty little little animation,

so we can turn it
back, I think it was set

at 80 for now, so with
that being said let's

start the spaceship
where we want to put it

to get for the beginning
and let's grab that

little arrow, let's pull it back to about
here and I'm going to switch back to that

left view and zoom back, now remember these
move and zoom widgets, so let's pull this

back a little bit more here and so that's
at frame 0 and at, okay let's make it a 120

frame animation, 120
frame animation, so that's

like 4 seconds or
120 divided by 30 is 4,

so that would be 4 seconds and at frame 120
will be over here, okay so let's just save

over top of that
current file and let's go

back to perspective,
okay so you can see the

camera is not where we need it, so this is
our big expensive Hollywood dramatic set we

have here in the background,
now if you want to

get these type of
background images I believe

you can go on the NASA website and you can
kind of download them and you have to kind

of look at the copyrights
for them and things like

that, as far as I know
you can't be distributing

these images, I can't even remember where I
even got this from, I've had it for years,

so do not, I will not
be distributing this

image or any other images
from the NASA website

or any other websites, this is the kind of
stuff you're going to have to kind of find

on your own, I probably
will be giving out

the spaceship for free
because it's actually

mine, but I don't distribute other people's
models or distribute other people's images,

so sorry if you're upset
that you wanted this

image I'm not going
to give that out, so let's

go back to the camera
view and so I'm going

to hit, so let's click
the camera button and

let's go Y for rotate and let's find where
we are here, let's zoom back and rotate and

rotate everything into
position here, so now

you can see that we're
coming in and out of

frame here, we also
need to set our image

size of what we're
going to, how we're going

to render this out,
let's go 19 HD and let's,

now we're on frame 0,
T for move and I'm going

to go Y for rotate, T for move and I want
to make sure that I'm within the bars here,

let's go to VPR mode for a second and you
can see here that this looks pretty cool,

now there's all sorts of
other lighting information

and different things
that we can do to this

to make this look even
cooler but we're just

sort of, like I said
we're starting with the

basics here, so that's what a render would
look like right now, I mean you could add

stuff like engine
lights and fire and all

sorts of stuff and you
could, once again lasers

and but at some
point we will get into all

of that but for now I
might be showing a lot

of this stuff in a VFX series, I'm going to
start soon and so let's go back to, so we

have our camera, once
again it says auto key

create, we had to make
sure that our spaceship

and our background prop
are within frame and that

we're not seeing any
of that grey background,

otherwise we'll give
the dead, because we'll

kill the illusion if
you actually can see

the outside of this background, where are
we here, you can see how even though it's

black you can see the edge, we don't want
to be able to see this edge, we just want

to be able to see stars
in our image, so let's

go back to shade
solid and go back to our

camera view, so now
from here we want to go

to frame 90, so you can
see that the spaceship

is flying away, what
we want to do with our

camera is we want to
move and kind of follow

it along the way, so I'm going to hit T for
move and I'm going to follow this and I'm

just going to try to
create a different position

and we want to make
sure that everything is

in frame, Y for rotate, T for move, ok so
let's follow this along and see if anything

goes out of frame along the way, oops, ok
so it looks like everything is staying in

the frame, ok so let's save that and let's
go into VPR mode, ok so that's cool, now

you can also notice
that in solid shade texture

mode the background,
the backdrop image doesn't

look as clear as the final render, you know
there are some settings that you can change

for output if we want
something a little bit

more higher res, ok so
you can see over here

under GL under
preferences, so if I hit the O

key and I go under GL,
ok open GL, see where

it says open GL
textures, if I turn that off

see how it kills all the
textures on our object

and our background
plate, if you change this

right now it's under
1K, if you bring this

up higher it will up the
res of the background,

it took a little bit
for it to kick in, so

it's a little cleaner, yeah so you can see
that it's gone cleaner, let's go back to

256, see how it
blurs it out, a little bit

more steeper progression,
512 the background

is a little clearer,
so if you're running

out of memory or you're
worried you're going

to run out of memory you can change these
settings just for setup purposes because we

don't really have
much going on I can get

away with having some
higher settings but the

default was at 1K which
was perfect for setting

things up but it's not
really necessary just

to set something up
like this unless you're

specifically looking
for some sort of detail

in the background, you might want to try 2K
or 4K if it's really that necessary but it

goes all the way up to
16K, 8K and 16K which

you probably won't
use just for something

like this but the
option is there, let's just

put it back to 1K and
go back to VPR, so let's

save that and you can
see as we scrub along

and the VPR update
so it's like it's rendering

things like pixels at a time

and we're just kind
of following this along,

now for fun let's
make a preview and it's

already set for 120,
click OK, now this will

actually take a little
while for it to render

here see it's on frame
2, we'll see what kind

of resolution we're
actually going to get

so what I'm going to do is I'm just going
to pause our video and when it's rendered

we'll come back so we'll
be back in a moment,

OK so now that our
animation is rendered the

preview playback controls show up so let's
press play and see what we got, OK so not

bad for preview, OK
now generally if you want

something to look
probably for a space kind

of scene you can kind
of see the depth is a

little odd, you can
kind of tell to a degree

that this is a background
plate just by the

way the angle is going,
a lot of times a lot

of these space images
would be paced to more

like a sphere kind of
object but I just wanted

to give you an idea of something a little
bit more simple, now one of the reasons why

you're actually able
to see the, you can tell

that it's more of a
background plate is because

of the camera rotation that I use because
I kind of I'm starting to rotate and you're

actually getting to look at things it's no
longer perpendicular to the camera, if we

would have just stuck
with a right square

dead on shot right from
the side you wouldn't

notice the so much of
a change in perspective

to the actual image but
anyways I'm just hoping

that this actually gives
you an idea of what you

can actually do, you
know blending background

images with models
just so that you don't

have to recreate an
entire galaxy from scratch

or you don't have to
create an entire background

from scratch you can
you know like I said

you can use stock photos, you can use stock
video and blend it with you know animations

with your models, there's lots of different
things you can do but background plates are

very very popular because they don't take
a long time to render like the images don't

like just using a background
image plate whereas

if you build everything
from scratch and you've

got you know hundreds
of thousands of polygons

or millions of polygons
then things can take

a lot longer to process
in the computer so

this is actually like
I said it's a now that

we have vpr it's a pretty
cool before we couldn't

do like a preview like
this in lightwave you

generally always had to render it out and
then once again bring it into like an image

sequence and bring it
out into Adobe Premiere

or After Effects or
whatever other software

and and and then play it back from here so
this is a sort of a quick way that you can

play it back right within
lightwaves interface

and just get an idea
of what it looks like

you can see it's a
little pixelated on this is

playing back smooth on
on my computer screen

but because you guys
are viewing this at 10

frames per second because
that's what I recorded

it at for the screen
capture software it might

look a little jaggy at
your end but anyways

I hope you guys learned
lots once again we're

just scratching the
surface here on what can

be done so until next
time this is Adam Gibson

from learn3dsoftware.com and
we'll see you again next time.