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Instant Neon logo with LWCAD

 

 

Figure 10

Go to the LWCADext tab and choose the Profiler tool to extrude a predefined profile along the curves.
The Licon allows you to choose a library of profiles.
The Picon allows you to choose a specific profile from a library.

Once you've chosen a profile (for our example we chose a simple octagonal profile, but this works with any of them) you can extrude it with a simple click and drag and your extrusion will surround the curves. The extrusion will all be quads. (Fig.10,11)

 

 

Figure 11

 

 

Figure 12

Hi tab to transform the polygons into subpatches and voilà!
Now it's up to you to add glow! Stars! Light! And you'll get ''LightWave in the Sky with Diamonds''! (I know, I know... I'll get me coat...)

 

 
About Frédéric Marzullo :

Frédéric is a longstanding user/trainer of LightWave, passionate about the creation of 2D and 3D images. He's worked on many important projects from the educational Adibou games to a recent job for Leningh laboratories. At the moment he's working feverishly on supervising a project to preserve afro-Caribbean culture. This ambitious work, called Fragile and copyright Avantilles©, will bring together an interactive video game with a film created with LightWave.

 
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