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LightWave 9 - Surfacing for Beginners- Volume #1- Essentials [AG]
A detailed introduction to Lightwave's powerful Surface Editor. * Learn how to name surfaces/polygons. * Learn how to load preset surfaces. * Learn how to make your own surfaces and save them as surface preset. * Learn how to make a save all your own pre-made surfaces in their own special directory. * Discover Lightwave's collection of built-in pre-made/pre-set surfaces like: rock, metal, glass, chrome, nature, organic.....and tons more!!! * Learn how to edit a surface preset made and create whole new surface based on the original. * Learn how to rename surfaces. * Learn how to preview surfaces in the Surface Editor. * Learn how to use the search command to find textures quickly. * Introduction to the Viper Preview Renderer. Running Time: 2 Hours-Approx. Instant Download
LightWave 9- Surfacing for Beginners Volume #2 [AG]
Topics Covers: * Learn how surfaces react with Lighting. Brightness and Colors. * Learn how to use the Diffuse Channel, Reflectivity, Luminosity, Glossiness, Translucency and much more. Running Time: 2 Hours-Approx. Please note that this is a "Buy it Now" only product purchase at this time. Thank you for your understanding. $19.00 USD - Instant Download
Pyro FX Techniques [ls]
Heat things up! Get Pyro FX Techniques from SplineGod today and start learning how to use geometry and textures to produce fire and lava effects that render quickly and give you all the control you need and more, spicing up your LightWave3D scenes! Larry takes you through the steps and shows you how to set things up fast. This video is a great value at just $19.99USD. Please note that this product is available only as a "Buy it Now" purchase at this time and cannot be combined with other purchases. We thank you for your understanding.
Celshading without Shaders - Tips and Tricks [kp]
Celshading, the technique used to create a 2D visual style from 3D, is commonly associated in LightWave as an effect created through the use of custom plugins and shaders. Artist Kevin Phillips will take you through creating your own custom cel shaders, as well as introduce a variety of time-saving workflow concepts to help you work faster.

The 1hr 20 min video tutorial comes complete with the 3D character and scene used in the tutorials. Download is 360Mb.

Water Drops in LW3D [ls]
Water Drops - Creating water drops onto the surface of an object using hypervoxels but without the use of particles. This technique uses textures to drive the creation of the hypervoxels. Very fast and easy! SplineGod takes you through the steps and gets you up and running. Please note that this is a "Buy it Now" product and cannot be combined with other purchases at this time. Thank you for your understanding. Water Drops $19.99 - Download
Bubbles And Waves [ls]
Larry Shultz (Splinegod) shows you the ins and outs of Watery FX in Bubbles And Waves for LightWave3D. In this video Larry brings to you techniques for creating Waves in LightWave using animated procedural textures and displacements. Also in this video, learn how to create realistic bubbles and combine the results to produce great water fx. This video is an excellent value at just $19.99USD Please note that this is a "Buy it Now" product and cannot be mixed with any other purchase at this time. Thank you for your understanding.
Mars Planet Creation Tutorial [kat]
Mars Planet Creation Tutorial [kat]
SciFi Style Planet Creation: Making Mars! You get the assets used in this video (The mars planet, images for the textures, and the scene set up). You learn how to create and texture your planet using the same techniques used on SciFi network space TV shows (Like BSG for example), then light this scene while understanding the principles of functions like “Fast Fresnel”, “StarMatte” objects and other neat tricks that used to be exclusive and well guarded secrets of the pros! Now this knowledge is yours! This is a rapid fire video and jams a huge amount of hand project based practical use techniques. A super great value at just $17.99USD Buy it now, get it now via instant download!
Advanced Lighting DP Light Kit Volume One [kat]
Advanced Lighting DP Light Kit Volume One [kat]
Here is Kat’s training tutorial video using LightWave 3D, Fusion and the DP Light Kit for Lightwave3D 9.6. Check out the scene using LightWave 3D and then work with the images saved via exrTrader for use in a compositing program such as Fusion or AfterEffects. You also get the Fusion 5.0 and up compatible .comp file. Drop it into your seat of Fusion and see how it was put together right away. This is a rapid fire video and jams a huge amount of hand project based practical use techniques. A super great value at just $17.99USD Buy it now, get it now via instant download!
Advanced Space Scenes: Volume One (Fast Nebula Creation Techniques) [kat]
Advanced Space Scenes: Volume One (Fast Nebula Creation Techniques) [kat]
This new video is just the beginning of a series of videos that I am starting showing you how to create awesome looking space scenes. You get the assets used in this video (You get the scene files, additional scene examples and a rendered sequence of this shot in motion so you can see it working immediately) for you to experiment and follow along with. You learn simple but fast techniques on how to take advantage of hidden (aka secret) functions in LightWave 3D that used to be exclusive and well guarded secrets of the pros! Now this knowledge is yours! This is a rapid fire video and jams a huge amount of hands on project based practical use techniques that will help you to build a project like this right away. Take advantage of LightWave 3D’s awesome speed for rendering what you might have passed off as a useless function – fog! and turn it into a wicked looking Nebula in minutes, fully controllable and animated! Fly your ships through it with maximum creep factor as this video is inspired by effects scene in movies such as Event Horizon, StarTrek II and Serenity. But this is just the beginning! Many of our site visitors and customers have been requesting nebula space scene creation tips and tricks and this is just the tip of the iceberg! The fundamentals shown in this video set the stage for even more advanced techniques to be featured in videos in this series coming very soon from Liberty3d! This video is a great value, with a run time of over 1 hour and 15 minutes (approx). Buy it now, get it now via instant download!
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