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Are there any plug-ins you
wouldn't be without?
Hmm, hard to say — a
lot of things are included in LightWave now so
I can't say which is a plug-in and which is a
function ;-) The things I find most useful are
the spreadsheet, HDRI loader/manipulating and
Bandsaw/Bandsaw pro/Bandglue. On the other hand,
I'm often too lazy to check all the plug-ins around
or to keep in mind what I can do with them so
I work mainly with LightWave's basic functions.
Why do you create your tutorials?
To gain publicity ;-), well,
not only that - I think it is important to share
knowledge, if everybody has to find a solution
for the very same problem we won't enlarge our
possibilities. So it's good to spread basic and
special procedures to speed up the evolution of
3D. Plus I want to show that lot of things aren't
very hard to do if you are using the right 3D
package.
Are you working on new ones
at the moment?
Yes, always. It is my way
to learn. If I start to think about problems I
just write down what I found and so I force myself
to learn and to share the results.
I understand you use Aura
as well, what do you think about the integration
between Aura and LightWave?
It really rocks. I think this
will be a main argument to use Aura for texturing.
the usage of Photoshop is very dominant and it
will take a while until Aura can do similar things
like Photoshop. However, people often think only
within the range of Photoshop and so they turn
into some kind of blind sheep and stop thinking
about other solutions. Aura is not perfect and
for the post-production of stills and for complex
work on textures it is often not the best solution
but this real-time work on UV maps is really great.
I hope I will get real-time update of the textures
for layout/modeler as well: to reload the texture
is not that hard but it could be better.
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