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Dan Ablan

"Inside LightWave v9"

25). You can take a closer
look at the gobo image in the Image Editor. Note that your image might appear
slightly different due to variances in light placements.
7. Press F9 to perform a single frame render to see how the gobo light looks projected
on the back of the set. If you don??™t like it, move the light a little, press F9 again, and
so on. Adjust to your liking.Moving the light further away works well for creating a
streaked gobo image too. Figure 4.26 shows the render with the gobo light added.
Figure 4.25 LightWave v9 allows you to see your projection images through Light view.
Figure 4.26 Just two lights in the scene, a light box, and a gobo on a spotlight give the set a
different look.
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You can load this final scene into Layout from this book??™s DVD and check the final settings
if you want. The scene is called Teacup_Lit.lws (in the ???Projects\Scenes\Ch4\??? directory).
Take a look at it and modify it for your own scenes if you like.
Adding gobos is easy. But it??™s probably a more powerful feature than you realize. Creating
a simple pattern on a set is nice, but you can accomplish much more with gobos:
?—? Use a grayscale image of tree branches to simulate shadows from a tree.


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