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 8, 2013

This update was quickly replaced with a far better version, which can be found here… Export STL version 2.0   Thanks! -Chilton

Mar 7, 2013

New freebie video from DWBurman: Baking Normal Maps in LightWave isn’t quite as easy as it should be. There are a few plugins that can help. In this video I show how to use DP_Kit’s Normal Cast node to bake a tangent (object space) normal map in LightWave 11.5. http://youtu.be/0OW2PTkSVNM If you are using an earlier version of LightWave, you will...

Mar 15, 2012

Item-Picker-Pro A nice little picker script like the ones in Maya. Draw out hit boxes on an image of your character to pick the rig items you’ve assigned to each box.

Mar 8, 2012

TurbulanceFD, the fire and smoke voxel plugin which has been used in productions such as Terra Nova & Iron Sky, has finally moved from beta to an official v1.0 release.