Making a Forest Tutorial

Part 1: In this tutorial we will create a basic terrain using displacement maps. The displacement map is obtained by using a procedural texture that will be modified later in Photoshop.

Part 1: Creating the Terrain

Part 2: In this tutorial we will be creating 10K textures in Photoshop, that will be later applied to the terrain model we created in Part 1.

Part 2: 10K Textures in Photoshop

Part 3: In this tutorial we will create Bump, Specularity and Diffuse maps for the terrain right inside of Lightwave. We will also create and texture the water plane.

Part 3: Additional Textures

Part 4: In this tutorial we will create a basic sunlight setup using HDRI images. We will also create trees using the DP Verdure plugin.

Part 4: Lighting and Trees

Part 5: In this last tutorial we will be populating our terrain with some trees, using Lightwave’s native instancing tool.

Part 5: Instancing

Autor: VFX TEST HUB

 

 

“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

 

Motion graphics with DPkit Tutorial

Lightwave 3d tutorial that uses dpkit to do motion graphics.

Motion graphics with DPkit part1

Motion graphics with DPkit part2

Motion graphics with DPkit part3

Motion graphics with DPkit part4

Motion graphics with DPkit part5

Motion graphics with DPkit part6

Motion graphics with DPkit part7

UPDATE YOUR DPKIT to prevent errors in LW.

Download file (Right mouse button and save as)

Autor: bryphi77

Folding paper with dpkit and weight paint Tutorial

Lightwave 3d tutorial that shows how to fold paper with dpkit.

Folding paper with dpkit and weight paint

Download DPKIT

3Dcel Weight paint tool (32 bits only): Download

Autor: bryphi77

Improved radial array Tutorial

Beating the radial array dead horse… but I thought yous would want to see this… much better set up.

Improved radial array

Download DPKIT

Autor: bryphi77