Tutorial ideas
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LightWiki members' suggested tutorial ideas as well as in-progress tutorials.
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General
- Optimising configs 60% done
- Creating a seamlessly tiling image
- StreetWise - An intermediate tut for the road 99.8% done
- Registering LightWave v9 for NewTek Europe customers
- Making buttons to load standard objects
- Using Directory Opus to speed up working with LightWave
- Linear Workflow in Lightwave 9.6
Layout
- Packshots 0% done
- Motion capture 0% done
- Interactive Depth of Field 80% done
- IKBoost Reference by Mike Green (Dodgy)
- Matchmoving in LightWave by David Ridlen
Modeler
- Working with STL
- Creating a double helix 0% done
- Importing EPSF files 0% done
- Importing architectural files
- Working with Rounder and Edge Bevel by Richard Culver
- All about Subpatch Modeling
- UV mapping with PLG tools
Rendering
- Using LightWave to compile animations
- Render passes using DPFilter
- Optimising scenes for rendering 0% done
- Rendering for print 40% done - needs pics and default.lws explanation
- Ultra Fast Radiosity < 9.2 ONLY
- Tone Mapping by Gerardo Estrada
- SG_CCTools - For Color Management and Linear Workflows by Gerardo Estrada
- Nodal Tone Mapping by Gerardo Estrada
- How LightWave's new radiosity works 9.2 and higher by Tom Bosschaert.
- How LightWave's new Motion Blur and Depth of Field work 9.2 and higher (20% done).
- How to use LightWave's volume stack system correctly 9.3 and higher (0% done).
- How to output to Holomatix Blaze 3D from LightWave (0% done).
Network rendering
Surfacing
- How to assign different properties to each side of a doublesided surface
- Using ZBrush models in LightWave v9
- Optimised image use 80% done
- Subsurface scattering in LightWave v9
- Surface baking
- Node Explanations 20% Complete - need more explanations
- Edges and Cel Shading
- Optimising Reflection blur
Dynamics
- Dynamics
- Introduction to ClothFX by Mike Green (Dodgy)
- Introduction to HardFX by Mike Green (Dodgy)
- Introduction to ParticleFX by Mike Green (Dodgy)
- Snatching cloth by Mike Green (Dodgy)
- Importing fluid simulations from Blender
Plugin Development
To add a new tutorial, simply click on the Edit button at the top of the page and copy the kind of entry that already exists. If you would like to write one of the tutorials proposed, you can just click on a red link and start writing, but it would be useful for you to know MediaWiki markup so that you can apply styles, etc. Open this page in a new tab: MediaWiki help
