>So I guess all that's left is for someone to figure out how to get the animation preview to >work with promoted screenmodes (RTG in particular)
I think winuae is able to do this.
You can go to expansion Page in winuaepref on start winuae and choose a diffrent pixelmode and or activate 24 bit.
to do this change (24bit) to all or a Pixelmode.When done well also the screenmode requester offer you 24 bit modes.When you select all you get 2 Modes.
i dont have lightwave, maybe you can upload a screenshot how the animation preview look in picasso2 display.or tell me a program that i can test and have same problem when use picasso2 mode.
I tried what you suggested, but it doesn't help. Animation wireframe preview mode does not offer you the choice of any screen modes.
Just so I am being completely clear, we have been talking about two different preview modes is this discussion threat. There is full colour render mode, which renders your image on a custom screen (usually HAM) in full colour. That problem has been solved with the CyberGrafx Renderer plug-in mentioned above.
The second problem comes with the Wireframe Animation Preview in Lightwave Layout: this gives you a simple, moving, wireframe view of your animation on the Native (642x768 NTSC) screen. This animation is shown within a portion Lightwave Layout's user interface, not on it's own custom screen. It is a quick way of showing the user an animation in Lightwave without wasting time doing a full render. This mode highly dependent on the native Amiga graphics chipset. While you can successfully promote Lightwave Layout's user interface to an RTG screenmode when you generate a preview wireframe animation, the animation simply doesn't show up - although all the controls for the animation are still visible and you can click on them.
I hope that description helps.
@ Elwood: Hey, Elwood, in your YouTube video you said that you were running Lightwave on OS4 but couldn't see the preview. Have you seen this patch for OS4?
http://aminet.net/package/gfx/3d/lightwave_rtg_patchIt claims to fix the preview issue (but only on OS4 - I wish the author could fix this for classic Amigas). It's not clear from the language the author uses whether he means the animation preview, or the render preview when he refers simply to "preview" in the description. I suspect it is the latter.
If it's the former meaning, though, it seems to me that with this patch and the Cybergrafx Renderer plugin you'd have pretty much full functionality of Lightwave in RTG modes under OS4 (but unfortunately us classic users are still waiting for a preview patch).