{"id":194,"date":"2009-05-05T22:19:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T03:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=194"},"modified":"2010-07-30T20:11:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T01:11:57","slug":"bouncing-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Bouncing Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/content\/BallBounce_v002.mov\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; padding: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/content\/Ballbounce_v002_0000_thumb.png\" alt=\"Bouncing Ball Preview\" \/><\/a>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/content\/BallBounce_v002.mov\">created this video<\/a> a couple of weeks ago and I have been meaning to post it up for a while but&#8230;  I guess I&#8217;ve been busy.  Or lazy.  Take your pick, either one may be true.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s been a while since I used LightWave so I decided to create the classic &#8220;bouncing ball&#8221; animation to quickly reacquaint myself with the keyboard shortcuts and general workflow in the program.  Luckily, I have a copy of &#8220;Learning LightWave 9.0&#8221; handy for looking up a few basic things I completely forgot (like how to parent an object to another).<\/p>\n<p>One thing I realized this time around:  the procedural textures built into LightWave are very limited and difficult to work with.  I played around with Maya a bit and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=147\">created some interesting surfaces using the built-in textures<\/a>.  Maya spoiled me, because each procedural texture has its own set of custom controls that let you change the way the texture looks.  For instance, the &#8220;marble&#8221; texture of Maya let&#8217;s you choose how much marbling is in the texture as a percentage.  The equivalent texture in LightWave does not have nearly as much flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>In this specific case, I was trying to add a very slight smoky marble to the floor.  I needed the marbling to be small in scale, a small percentage of the overall surface, and zigzagging throughout the floor in a random pattern.  I ended up having to use a multi-fractal pattern instead, because the &#8220;Marble&#8221; texture couldn&#8217;t accurately create a marble surface.<\/p>\n<p>Live and learn, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I created this video a couple of weeks ago and I have been meaning to post it up for a while but&#8230; I guess I&#8217;ve been busy. Or lazy. Take your pick, either one may be true. Anyway, it&#8217;s been a while since I used LightWave so I decided to create the classic &#8220;bouncing ball&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}