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Title: Can it be?
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2002, 07:29:13 pm
Woohoo! 750th post! As a present to you all, I'd like to give you... a reasonable topic!
So...What's your favorite movie? :D
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Post by: Shrike on March 30, 2002, 07:36:23 pm
I want to see 13 ghosts.  Is it any good?

"This house is a machine.....powered by the dead!"

Which is funny, because one of my favorite skinny puppy songs has the following lines:

"Nothing can penetrate this barrier.
It has the strength of a million souls.
The power of the dead!"  :D
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Post by: an0n on March 30, 2002, 07:40:30 pm
Bah! It's just a ****ty remake of House and House II. All that crystal skull stuff was uber-scary.
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Post by: Thorn on March 30, 2002, 07:42:22 pm
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...
Best acid trip ever....
"PLEASE! TELL ME ABOUT THE ****ING GOLF SHOES!"
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Post by: Shrike on March 30, 2002, 07:42:59 pm
FaL had people that were total rips of Donesbury characters....
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Post by: Setekh on March 30, 2002, 07:43:15 pm
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Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Woohoo! 750th post! As a present to you all, I'd like to give you... a reasonable topic!
So...What's your favorite movie? :D


As I view this thread, it says '765'. :D

Uhhh, lessee. How about Pearl Harbour? Honestly... just imagine all the characters as Lt. Ash, and all the fighters as Apollos. See! It's good! :D
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Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2002, 07:43:55 pm
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Originally posted by Setekh


As I view this thread, it says '765'. :D

Uhhh, lessee. How about Pearl Harbour? Honestly... just imagine all the characters as Lt. Ash, and all the fighters as Apollos. See! It's good! :D

Oops... ;)

Man, that movie had good special effects...talk about not knowing what's real or not :nod:
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Post by: Thorn on March 30, 2002, 07:43:58 pm
I rarely read Donesbury, so I wouldnt know....
Hell, its not in the papers out here anymore..
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Post by: an0n on March 30, 2002, 07:44:28 pm
Animal House

Now that was funny. Looking through the obituaries for dead frat-girls then going to their frat house and 'comforting' their bereived friends. A total classic.
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Post by: Thorn on March 30, 2002, 07:45:14 pm
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Originally posted by WMCoolmon

Oops... ;)

Man, that movie had good special effects...talk about not knowing what's real or not :nod:

The wonders of Lightwave :)
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Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2002, 07:50:25 pm
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Originally posted by Thorn

The wonders of Lightwave :)

They used Lightwave? :eek:
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Post by: Setekh on March 30, 2002, 07:52:34 pm
I wouldn't blame them... Babylonian Productions, did...

It really comes down to the rotoscoping, though... now that impressed me...
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Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2002, 07:53:40 pm
I'm just surprised it was Lightwave...I thought all the big names used Maya or something... :o
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Post by: Thorn on March 30, 2002, 07:54:00 pm
If this is Pearl harbour, then yes..
(http://images.newtek.com/lightwave/gallery/lw0000118.jpg)
(http://images.newtek.com/lightwave/gallery/lw0000154.jpg)
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Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2002, 07:55:52 pm
Ooh! Ooh! The top picture uses hypervoxels! See, I have been doing my homework!
That looks about the right quality, actually...neato :nod:
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Post by: Thorn on March 30, 2002, 07:57:24 pm
So does the bottom one... (the flak)
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Post by: Setekh on March 30, 2002, 07:58:36 pm
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Originally posted by WMCoolmon
I'm just surprised it was Lightwave...I thought all the big names used Maya or something... :o


LW is industrial-strength as they come...
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Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2002, 07:59:17 pm
Oh...who needs Maya anyhow? :D
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Post by: Thorn on March 30, 2002, 08:00:29 pm
I've used Maya..
I hate it....
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Post by: Setekh on March 30, 2002, 08:06:08 pm
They have a free version out, now...
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Post by: Thorn on March 30, 2002, 08:06:39 pm
Thats what I have...
Quite annoying to work with..
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Post by: Setekh on March 30, 2002, 08:10:44 pm
Can you make anything with it? A cube? :p
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Post by: an0n on March 30, 2002, 08:12:11 pm
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Originally posted by Setekh
Can you make anything with it? A cube? :p

*has flashbacks of the GTD Cube*
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Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2002, 08:12:37 pm
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Originally posted by Setekh
Can you make anything with it? A cube? :p

I don't think so... Of course, I had trouble doing that in MAX... :D
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Post by: Thorn on March 30, 2002, 08:13:46 pm
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Originally posted by Setekh
Can you make anything with it? A cube? :p

yes...
took me 20 minutes to figure out how mind you..
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Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2002, 08:20:09 pm
:lol:
Yeah, Lightwave does look good...I mean, they generated the effects in ST 6 with it! :D
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Post by: Setekh on March 30, 2002, 08:24:24 pm
Star Trek? Nooo.... :p
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Post by: Thorn on March 30, 2002, 08:24:57 pm
They do DS9 with it if I'm not mistaken...
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Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2002, 08:26:44 pm
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Originally posted by Thorn
They do DS9 with it if I'm not mistaken...

What about Enterprise
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Post by: Carl on March 30, 2002, 08:41:45 pm
yes, they do everything with lightwave.

ST, B5, most movies, anything you can think of.
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Post by: Kamikaze on March 30, 2002, 09:51:59 pm
They did Chrono Cross with Lightwave too, it's in the credits...
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Post by: mikhael on March 30, 2002, 10:03:47 pm
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Originally posted by Kamikaze
They did Chrono Cross with Lightwave too, it's in the credits...


ChronoCross used Lightwave for all the real time models. Cutscenes were done in Maya.
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Post by: CP5670 on March 31, 2002, 04:14:58 am
I have only seen four or five movies in my life, but out of those, I would say that "Tora! Tora! Tora!" is probably the best.
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Post by: Styxx on March 31, 2002, 12:59:46 pm
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Originally posted by Shrike
I want to see 13 ghosts.  Is it any good?

"This house is a machine.....powered by the dead!"


And everyone was looking at us funny at the theater after the said that line in the trailer... :D
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Post by: Setekh on April 01, 2002, 12:12:31 am
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Originally posted by mikhael
ChronoCross used Lightwave for all the real time models. Cutscenes were done in Maya.


Indeed. Maya has a dodgy modeller, apparently (well, at least, in comparison)...
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Post by: JR2000Z on April 01, 2002, 12:40:43 am
Can the free version of Maya make as good qualtiy pictures as Lightwave can?
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Post by: Styxx on April 01, 2002, 07:59:57 am
Never trust a free version... Just look at Truespace. ;)
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Post by: wEvil on April 01, 2002, 08:28:56 am
None of them can even touch Softimage XSI or Houdini.

BLEH!

Maya is absolutely horrible.  The renderer is slow as hell, if you want to do low-poly stuff for games you're stuffed, its got terrible subdivision support for polygon control hulls and its got a really ropey interface.  If you love nurbs, use maya.

Its just like lightwave except WORSE (if possible)
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Post by: Styxx on April 01, 2002, 08:29:58 am
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Originally posted by wEvil
Its just like lightwave except WORSE (if possible)


:lol: :lol:
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Post by: Thorn on April 01, 2002, 08:34:12 am
The only bad thing Lightwave has going for it, is the speed of its renderer...
Slow. As. Hell.
But it looks great when it finishes..
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Post by: wEvil on April 01, 2002, 08:41:13 am
But all lightwaves' renderings look the SAME!

The mark of a good renderer is the facility to get a different look out of it.

Thats' why 3dsMAXs default renderer sucked so much...everything looked very samey or if you really worked on an image it would take on a slightly illistrutative look.

Lightwaves' renders have a tendancy to look fairly realistic but they always have an incredibly CG tinge to them.  

Of course the above is a sweeping generalisation.

I just stick wit mental ray and max/XSI.  can't beat em.
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Post by: Styxx on April 01, 2002, 09:09:45 am
I gotta try one of these other renderers one of these days...
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Post by: Razor on April 01, 2002, 09:43:18 am
I just love this kind of question. Let's see now

Mission Impossible 2 ( Well Mr Hunt, this is not mission difficult, it's mission impossible. Mission difficult would be a walk in the park for you. :) )

Whoa! Have you guys checked the bike action? Tom Cruise couldn't have possibly done all those moves. Anyway, it is a good action movie and I would recommend it to everyone. :nod:

THIS MESSAGE WILL SELF-DESTRUCT IN FIVE SECONDS
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Post by: Thorn on April 01, 2002, 09:54:22 am
Oh god that movie was terrible.....
Hated it...
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Post by: Styxx on April 01, 2002, 10:23:41 am
All that stuff about the masks was damn silly... :p
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Post by: Razor on April 01, 2002, 12:22:07 pm
Well the masks were too overboard but in general, it was good. :nod:
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Post by: Gortef on April 01, 2002, 01:13:16 pm
err... I dunno I like so many movies I've seen :doubt:

but let's say Mononoke Hime :D

or Fifth Element

or Lion King

or ... :nervous:
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Post by: Styxx on April 01, 2002, 01:24:56 pm
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Originally posted by Gortef
or Lion King



Hm? :wtf:
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Post by: WMCoolmon on April 01, 2002, 01:27:51 pm
Made with Truespace :lol: