Rigging Hydraulic Pistons in Lightwave

I just read this (post #21) and figured I'd pontificate on what I've been able to do fairly quickly. Lightwave makes this easy with the built-in tools available. Now I have to be honest here: I don't remember if I read this technique in someone else's tutorial, or if I thought of i... [More]
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Posted on July 5, 2008 02:13 by Dave
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Complex UV Mapping The Easy Way

How to apply UV maps where the target is *almost* oriented the right way? [More]
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Posted on March 30, 2008 15:36 by Dave
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Making "Battlestar" Ribs and Hull Plating

You've seen the show. You may even know the visual effects are all made with Lightwave 3D. Now, you'd like to make your own battlestar. [More]
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Posted on November 6, 2007 15:32 by Dave
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Loopable Chaos - Volumes!

In a previous tutorial, I discussed a method of using combinations of 3D textures to create a sequence of 2D images which could be looped, yet still appear to be ongoing chaotic change. However, that technique won't work if what you want to create is a 3D volume. [More]
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Posted on November 29, 2006 13:09 by Dave
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An easier way to make Trekkish ship hull "Aztec" patterns

Creating "Star Trek" ship hull specularity image maps can be a pain. But does it really need to be? [More]
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Posted on November 19, 2006 08:30 by Dave
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A cheap way to make a geodesic dome

I've been paining myself on how folks have made geodesic domes. It seems like an awful lot of work to do, and it must be pretty difficult to get everything all lined up. Then it occurred to me that Lightwave Modeler has all the necessary tools to do this quickly and very easily. [More]
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Posted on February 25, 2006 08:00 by Dave
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Loopable Chaos

I've been working on a Stargate and one of the primary problems is the open wormhole. It's supposed to look like a water surface. The problem is it takes too long to render all that detail. I wanted to make an image sequence and then use that as a simple texture on a single polygon. The sequence had to be long enough that viewers can't notice the loop yet short enough that it doesn't take up too much disk space or too much time to render out. [More]
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Posted on September 17, 2005 08:00 by Dave
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