May 11, 2013

This video covers some of the functionality, workflow and quirks of LightWave 11.5's Compositing Buffer Export. It's not a comprehensive video about the tool, or the concept of multi-pass rendering, but it does show the basics of how to use the tool and warns about a fairly big gotcha with it.

May 1, 2013

Procedural Fire I stumbled upon a pretty nifty way to make a rolling fire procedural texture last week and polished it up a bit for this week’s video. This is all done as a Textured Environment backdrop and uses two Procedural Layers (their positions are animated) and two Gradient Layers The video shows me recreating the effect from scratch. I go through...

Apr 12, 2013

Sometimes you’ll find yourself doing the same things over and over and over again. One great way to simplify your life is by coding all of those repetitive tasks into a script (either LScript or Python), but what if you don’t know how to program? In this video dwburman shows how some simple can be semi-automated very simply with LScript Commander. No...

Mar 29, 2013

In this video dwburman takes an old technique and applies it to one of LightWave’s newest features to show yet another way to give a non-photo real (NPR) look to your renders.

Mar 14, 2013

Normally, if you want a thick border around your objects base entirely on the alpha channel, you have to use another app. With DP_Filter, we can do it right inside LightWave. It’s still probably better to do this in After Effects or whatever you use, but it’s nice to know it can be done in one step if necessary. http://youtu.be/fARm6bUg6IY You can...