Making environments in LightWave 3D® is fun and easy. Since all the tools we need come straight out of the box, you won't need to spend any extra money on 3rd party plug-ins. Let's get started.

So you have been given the task of creating a specific looking wood texture whatever you are working on. For the purpose of this tutorial, you have to surface a wooden barrel.

We'll realize two version of the ball, first a Lowpoly version, then a Highpoly one. Prepare your Lightwave3D's Modeler!

This first part of the Lava Lamp tutorial covers the modeling of the actual lamp and a collision object for the particles that will simulate the lava. Registraton required !!!

Hello everyone, and welcome to the all new and improved Texturing For Dummies! Some of you may have read these before, but I have since re-edited them to be totally LightWave® specific, and a little more in-depth in terms of application.

Since 3 years I create backgrounds and architectural images. I wanted to work on human model and my son was the perfect subject...

This tutorial will describe a procedure to keep your original tiling and resolution for color textures, and bake illumination at a minimum resolution, so that the baking process won't take ages.

Okay, before the debate begins to rage as to whether or not to actually use specularity, or just stick to reflection mapping, let's first assess the necessity for shininess in the first place.

Okay, lets start using Lightwave for real then.

Yes, I too was shocked when I discovered that diffusion is not actually colour, as many other software packages I'd used before had led me to believe.