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

Feb 8, 2013

It didn’t take long before the videos showing off what LightWave 11.5 tools can do started to appear on Youtube, including a couple of videos from Liberty3d citizen Kevin Phillips, showing how a few of the new tools helped value add and enhance his workflow with a German WW2 fighter plane. Check them out below: Creating ground fog using the new Textured...

Feb 6, 2013

Space Toon: Volume One takes you through the whole process of making a retro cartoon style space scene from making the space backdrop in Textured Environment through making a planet, learning about LightWave edge options and LightWave 11.5′s new edge nodes, modeling a wrecked space ship (starting with a simple cylinder, cutting away parts and then using...