Object Trail Tutorial

Using Spline Control and Instances to reveal a static path of objects – could be handy for those travel documentaries! No audio.

All this can be done natively in LW but I’ve used a couple of very useful plugins to speed up the process.

They can be downloaded here and here . (Commercial)

 

Object Trail

Autor:Mark Warner

LightWave 3D – After Effects – Element 3D – LightWave 3D

Tips on how to seamlessly integrate LightWave 3D, After Effects and VideoCoPilot’s Element 3D.

Easily swop data between apps.
Add 3d objects to a LW render.
Setup matte objects without re-rendering matte passes in LW.
Transform AE objects to 3d objects in LW.

LW plugins: Save Transformed Sequence+

LightWave 3D – After Effects – Element 3D – LightWave 3D

Autor:Mark Warner

“8-bit” Effect Tutorial

In this tutorial we will see how to give to our animation an “8-bit” look using instances.

“8-bit”

For this effect you also need additional nodes for Lightwave by Denis Pontonnier. You can download DP Kit here

Autor: Fabio Annunziata

 

Lightwave plugin PX UV Creeper explained

This tutorial will demonstrate how to use the 3rd party plug-in PX UV Creeper for Lightwave. The plug-in comes in 32 and 64 bit.

PX UV Creeper

Download plugin

Autor: DJ Waterman

Separating Edges in combined UV Maps Tutorial

This tutorial shows you a technique for dealing with shared edges on UV maps and how to keep them separated. This is useful when you have many different UV maps on the same piece of geometry and you want to combine all the UV maps into one single UV map.

Separating Edges in combined UV Maps

Download plugins

Autor: DJ Waterman