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...

Mar 7, 2013

Liberty3d citizen, Ian Thompson has been busy posting free videos about camera matching using LightWave and more. LightWave 3D – Camera Matching (part 01) http://youtu.be/UezZ1fVMY9s LightWave 3D – Camera Matching (part...

Mar 7, 2013

In honor of Larry Shultz’ birthday yesterday, Chilton Webb posted a video on using IKBoost and LightWave 11.5 to unfurl a plant. http://youtu.be/fkuPmeu28Cc

Jan 23, 2013

I posted a new video showing a simple trick for connecting intersecting geometry. There are other ways to do this. Michael Wolf and Alexx (Alexandre Labedade) have suggested using Drill or Solid Drill because the knifing process can be tedious. That method requires more clean up, but probably would take less time than the example I showed. I tried that trick out...

Nov 24, 2011

This weeks plugin is called Thickener. I’m guessing that many of you are already familiar with Thickener, but for those who aren’t I’ve put together a quick video showing you this tool. The tool has been created by Christian Bloch (Blochi) and while contacting him for permission to add the plugin to the Benelux Lightwave Resource he was so kind...