Feb 8, 2013

Here’s a free 50 minute video on creating game assets with LightWave3D. We’ll be using LightWave to create an object, surface and texture it. Create UV maps and bake the texture using the baking camera. Then we show you how to use them in-game. In this case we use the maniaplanet franchise (trackmania and shootmania). This is the link :...

Jan 30, 2013

Here’s another short video tip. This time it shows a couple of ways to tile UV projected images. http://youtu.be/gYxIoqXkix0 Dave Jerrard’s UV map tricks presentation from LA LightWave User Group can be found here: http://youtu.be/ZyyLu3FQr9Q

Jul 25, 2011

Its finally here! Part two of the Fanboy Series (Inspired by District 9) training teaches you the basics of unwrapping this complex model into a useable and well laid-out UV for painting up that scratched up paint, wear and tear!

Learn to Master the “UV Master” Plug-in This video covers in detail the new FREE UV Unwrapping Plug-in available for Free Download at the Pixologic website. Topics Covered: 1 Click UV Unwrapping Symmetrical UV Editing Control Painting Ambient Occlusion UV Unwrapping Density UV Editing Preset Editor Work on Clone Feature Copy and Paste UV...

Topics Covered: Advanced UV Editing in LightWave Adobe PhotoShop Advanced Image Editing Techniques How to use photos/images to surface a female character in LightWave How to organize and prepare you images in Photoshop for later use. How to Blend images and cover up UV Seams. How to use Layers in Photoshop How to layer images in LightWave using the surface...