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#Silk or Satin FX

    21-Sep-95 17:31:51
Sb: #Silk or Satin FX
Fm: Trent K. Johnson 71020,1052
To: All
I've been trying to get a decent "billowing silk or satin" effect with LightWave. Often-seen effect looks like a shiny flag waving, with specular highlights (somewhat similar to the cape animation at the end of "Lois and Clark"). I've tried unsuccessfully to emulate this effect properly in LightWave with multiple combinations of displacement maps, bump maps and several surface combinations. I can get close, but the effect is too regular (even with multiple wave sources) or the specular highlights are wrong. I'm out of ideas so if you think you have the answer to the LightWave settings, I can give it a try. Stumped, (I hate that!) Trent/ReAnimators