Nice one!

[Matt]

Wow, we have a forum dedicated to the subject I use LightWave for! Excellent!

:)

[MooseDog]

nice job on re-working the whole forum. well laid out :thumbsup:

[retinajoy]

Excellent! I am sure I will be posting here in the future.

[JML]

that's very good, I'm sure I will post here a lot too..

[marble_sheep]

Wow, we have a forum dedicated to the subject I use LightWave for! Excellent!

:)

I second that motion! Thanks Newtek for creating "sub-communities" for individual disciplines. :cool:

[gaushell]

Excellent. We have been recognized as a sub user group.

Our firm uses Lightwave and has since 1993 for architectural illustrations and animations - take a look if interested.

www.2dimes.com

Go Newtek! And Worley Labs!

[JML]

I remember your site charles,
a lot of good stuff there. you've done a lot of work in a lot of
different sectors.
how many people are there in your company ?

[gaushell]

Thanks.

There are six of us full time and we use some contract modelers every now and then.

About 70-80 percent of our work is architectural related, but we also do medical, musuem exhibits and aviation related work - plus a lot of multimedia and editing to boot. And luckily we are doing work all over the country - literally from coast to coast.

We have been very blessed.

Thanks again,

[mindseye]

super!.. I'm another full time Arch guy using LW. Glad to have a spot here!

www.mindseyemm.com my gallery will be updated in a week or so. It's way outdated.

[Jure]

This is great! Just what we needed. Thanks Newtek!

[mangalore]

I would like to see from some of you pro's guys a tutorial in how to make a whole building in lightwave with the windows, doors and everything but not a heavyweight one. (Like transformin a cube splitting faces, etc., simulating it as the real thing).
I have been struggling with one project in which I have to do eleven eight story buildings, four apartments per story, using a floor plan from autocad, and using windows picture instead of the real ones, but could not handle everything although I have one gig ddram. athlon xp 2.4 plus processor.

Any clues, thanks in advance

[gaushell]

An easy answer is to look at everything in its most simple forms. A building is a box - so create one to the correct proportions. Punch out windows via another box at the correct location; copy the mullions and glass (which are just a series of intersecting boxes).

Slice the poly at the top and then extrude the center points to create the gable; extrude to get your fascia thickness, etc.

I hope that points you in the right direction.

Having plans and elevations in the background layers (all the same scale) and at the correct orientations saves a ton of time. That way you trace the simple forms and then extrude, punch, slice, etc. accordingly.