WS Lighting

Issue 3: Lighting.

I have seen a lot of renders done by people who don't use Lightwave which don't include the correct lights attached to the White Star. In my opinion, the lights attached to the ship are as important to the look of the model as the textures. Therefore, here are the Lightwave settings, colours and positions of the lights for the White Star. You will have to translate these as best you can into settings which your software can use. (NB: In Lightwave, Y is the VERTICAL axis.)

Name	Colour	Pos X	Pos Y	Pos Z	Intensity	Falloff
Right Pod Fade	200, 200, 255	25.7m	-6m	-23m	1500%	10m
Left Pod Fade	200, 200, 255	-25.7m	-6m	-23m	1500%	10m
Left Wing Light	255, 255, 160	-8.5m	-0.4m	-12.3m	200%	13.3m
Right Wing Light	255, 255, 160	8.5m	-0.4m	-12.3m	200%	13.3m
Central Pod Glow	200, 200, 255	0m	-8.75m	-16.6m	1500%	10m
Right Pod Glow	200, 200, 255	25.7m	-6m	-23m	0%	n/a
Left Pod Glow	200, 200, 255	-25.7m	-6m	-23m	0%	n/a
Laser Flare 1	255, 255, 255	0m	-0.06m	0.41m	1000%	6.6m
Laser Flare 2	255, 255, 255	0m	-0.06m	0.41m	0%	n/a

Name	Flare	Intensity	Distance Fade	Dissolve	Fade / Glow	Random Streaks
R Pod Fade	Yes	65%	100m	50%	Fade	Yes
L Pod Fade	Yes	65%	100m	50%	Fade	Yes
L Wing Light	No
R Wing Light	No
Central Pod Glow	Yes	50%	100m	25%	Glow	No
R Pod Glow	Yes	65%	100m	50%	Glow	Yes
L Pod Glow	Yes	65%	100m	50%	Glow	Yes
Laser Flare 1	Yes	40%	100m	none	Glow	Yes
Laser Flare 2	Yes	40%	100m	none	Glow	Yes

Colour	This should be obvious. A 24 bit colour value in the form R, G, B.
Pos X, Y, Z	Position of the light. In Lightwave, the Y axis is vertical, and the Z axis runs the length of the ship.
Intensity	The brightness of the light as a percentage of 100 (full brightness). Many of the lights use values greater than 100%, and others do not have any intensity at all. These lights are purely lens-flares (see below).
Falloff	The distance the effect of the light travels before it casts no light.
Flare	Whether or not the light has an associated lens-flare effect.
Intensity	The brightness of the flare effect as a percentage.
Distance fade	Lightwave employs a system to automatically lower the intensity of a lens flare as it recedes from the camera. At the nominal distance the intensity is set to the user setting. If the light moves closer, it becomes more intense etc.
Dissolve	The opacity of the lens flare effect. For lights such as R Pod Fade and R Pod Glow, which occupy the same space and are set to 50% dissolve, this will result in the appearance of one flare at full opacity.
Fade / Glow	Specifies the behaviour of the lens-flare when it moves behind an object. If fade is selected, the flare will turn off when it moves behind objects. If glow is selected, the lens flare will remain illuminated but those parts of the flare behind the object will not be rendered.
Random Streaks	Specifies whether or not the lens flare has streaks emanating from its center.

Name	Sample	Name	Sample
R Pod Fade		R Pod Glow
L Pod Fade		L Pod Glow
L Wing Light		Laser Flare 1
R Wing Light		Laser Flare 2
Central Pod Glow