LWCAD is a very powerful plug-in that can really speed up your modelling in LightWave. This tutorial illustrates LWCAD's potential by showing you how to make a neon light quickly.
Welcome to part 1 of an introduction
to character rigging concepts in LightWave. This
tutorial looks at one way in which I rigged one
of my personal CG character models, and shows you
how I rigged it both without and with the use of
weightmaps.
The key thing with explosions
is the timing of one effect over another - in this
case we have the initial flash, the expanding fiery
explosion and then the effects of water cooling
down and imploding.
We present an excerpt from
Nicholas Boughen's excellent "LightWave 3D 8 Lighting
book, that explains the different sorts of lights
in LightWave. The book is available from the nice
people at Wordware, here.
This tutorial explains how
to create the effect of glowing energy over an object.
As a basic scene I used SpaceFighters scene, that
comes with LW example scenes.