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> >I am not sure about this, but I DL'd that demo plugin and it seemed to=
> >me that when you went to render out an image using the super glow
> >features, that it took forever and a year to render out. Is this reall=
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> >true, or was I just doing something totally wrong?
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> Were you running the demo version under LightWave 5.5? We haven't
> updated the demo binaries in some time and due to some bugs/changes in
> the way LW 5.5 does the user interface panels, some parameters in the
> main Super Glow panel can become zero, which can have bad effects on
> final render time. And in some cases make the glow effect not appear a=
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> all. We are considering updating our demo with the very latest version=
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> fixes this problem. The pirate/cracker market seems to be acting as a
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> As for speed, Super Glow offers two modes of glow a fast edge based glo=
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> and the traditional every point radiates glow. Our fast edged based
> glow is 10-20 times faster than NewTek's glow. Our slow glow is about
> the same as the built in glow(slightly faster sometimes, never worse).
> Is it possible you didn't turn off the normal glow in the scene(ie you
> were rendering both a NewTek glow and a Super Glow?).
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hmmm....It's quite possible that I had both turned on. BTW, I am on LW
5.0 Alpha. And I'm sorry to hear about the pirates screwing you up :(
Anyway, maybe I'll give it another try and see what happens. But there
was also some other stange things going on. When I would click on a
button, (I don't remember which on) the next panels that came up were as
though all of the selections, i.e. different panels for different
selections, would all be kind of like, over laid, i.e. you could see
tons of words all over each other. But after then going back and
reselecting a button, or something like that, then it seemed to work
better. I really am very interested in this program, but way back when,
when I downloaded the thing and saw all these problems, well I just lost
interest. But lately I have been really getting into the glow type
effects and so needless to say, I have been having an increased interest
in such a program.
Thanx very much for your response and I'll see what happens......md :)
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