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user defined funktion

In this basic tutorial we'll learn how to use Layout Commands in LScript and we'll define our custom function (UDF) in the script as an exercise.

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Lighting Techniques Part 1

Owing to excessive workload, I've had to split this tutorial up in to two parts. The next part will cover outdoor and indoor lighting and general techniques for a 3D artist

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Constant Walk Cycle

One problem with creating a walk cycle with a stationary character and no groundplane is that the feet are inconsistent when they come to make contact with the floor of the scene that they later encounter.

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Walk Cycle in Minutes

just recently learned a new technique for setting up a walk cycle during my visit to Mexico City and thought I would share it with everyone.

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Simple IK Chains

Hi folks, welcome to a tutorial on simple IK chains.

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Easy DOF for non-Photographers using Digital Confusion

Depth of Field can be very tedious and painful to set up and generates slow renderings if you use the normal Camera DOF in the camera properties.

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Walking Heel to Toe

I am an old-skewl lightwave user. I still use older tried and true methods of doing things but I have taken to the new tools which make many of the old skewl things obsolete ie: the motion mixer and morph mixer.

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Rostum Camera

Make a plane in Modeler. It will be best if you create it in the bottom left viewport, but before you start, change the view from Back to Front (the little button in the top left-hand corner of the viewport window).

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SkyTracer 2 For Dummies

OK, so there I am, working on a shot that needs a very specific type of sky – looking through my collection of images I don’t find anything I can use for this one “I know” thinks I, “I’ll use SkyTracer – how hard can it be…”

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Grass with Saslite

This tutorial requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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eye blink

I made this tutorial for help people like me =) and because many are posting on how to do it.

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Model and Animate a Flag

This tutorial requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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Character Rigging

I always thought that there weren't too many tutorials, at least complete ones, that go over rigging in LW. So that is what this is, a tutorial that goes over the whole thing in ~25-30 min.

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Creating the old sign environment

This tutorial requires the Flash 6 Player.

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Sub - surface light scatter

The topic of sub-surface scattering (SSS) has received much lip service on the net of late. However, after reading anything I could get my hands on, I was still unsure about how to implement this real-world effect into my renderings.

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Break a box from the sky!

I saw this animation in the Lost Pencil Animation Studios homepage, they also are giving the scene, I made it using other plug-in, I want to participle and help other that started like me.

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Smart skinning

The bones system in Lightwave I've found to be one of the fastest and most flexible bones systems available in terms of deformations.

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Hard FX_1

In this tutorial you will learn how to set up and rig a basic HardFX scene and then adjust the HardFX parameters to simulate rigid bodies of increasing brittleness.

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Smart Skinning

The bones system in Lightwave I've found to be one of the fastest and most flexible bones systems available in terms of deformations.

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Effector tool

LightWave [8] has many interesting tools for modeling and animation. One particular tool that has been in LightWave for awhile that I recently discovered is the effector tool.

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