do all your modeling irrespective of quads and tri’s, just get the shape right, its easy toward the end to clean up your model to only quads and tris, our very own Cman has written a plugin for this exact purpose.
NEW weekly tut and tool thread !
element412
#42
wow . i cant wait to see the rigging tut … im so much interested in animating in lw…but try making it for lw6 or up or at least lw7 and up… just my tougfh…
here s question for ya…
HOW DO YA UNWRAP IN LW???
elewment
yahll
#43
Unwrap?
You can use a plugin call Unwrap 
or you can just create a uv map and export the uv view as eps or use another plugin call Uv imaginator
Joril
#45
Since this is a sticky Tool tread, I’ll ask here in stead of making a new thread.
I’m not sure if this has been asked before but is there a tool or plug-in which does the same thing as the “split polygon tool” in Maya?
I first saw it here :
http://www.geocities.com/daveshighendstuff/page02.htm
You’ll prolly know what I’m talking about.
I haven’t used Maya yet so I’m not sure how that tool functions, but is he just drawing edges into that polygon?
Seems like pretty fast and handy tool to me.
Joril
#48
Yeah, it’s called the “Edge Tool”. Comes with LW7.
Yeah, I got that plug-in a while ago, but you can only add a single edge, not a series of linked edges(which i thought was the case with the maya tool), between two existing edges.
Oh well, I guess adding the points manually helps too.
Raw
#51
Hi guys,
I’ve just thought of a forum thread containing all of your expirience and maybe some tutorials about the Lightwave PFX-Engine.
There’s so much you can do with it;
i’ll give it a start by posting this one
http://users.otenet.gr/~nixx/flame_tutorial.htm
hope to get some replies on this
bye and out
Kaiser_Sose
#53
Hi
New to 3D and LW 7.5, what free plugins should I get
I dl edge tool and magic beveler but cant read how to install them
Any help
Facial_Deluxe
#54
Go to your LW directory pluggins and put the “.p” files in it.
Then in LW (both Modeler & Layout) go to the pluggin section and do a “scan directory”, select your pluggins dir, the new plugs are now added and usable.
Can’t tell you exactly the name of the buttons, don’t have LW in front of me now…
Sama3d
#55
minus this ones for you.
http://www.eliteops.com/sama/images/girRender1.jpg
I just wrote a new paper/tutorial on gMil if anyone cares.
http://www.eliteops.com/sama/whatisgMil/index.htm
-Sama
Kaiser_Sose
#56
Originally posted by Raw
[B]Hi guys,I’ve just thought of a forum thread containing all of your expirience and maybe some tutorials about the Lightwave PFX-Engine.
There’s so much you can do with it;
i’ll give it a start by posting this one
http://users.otenet.gr/~nixx/flame_tutorial.htm
hope to get some replies on this
bye and out [/B]
That is really neat … to bad I cant follow it
Could you go back and add a few step by step instructions here and there
Sama3d
#57
Its not really ment to be a beginner tut. Its actually just a study of gMil. Ppl confortable with Lw should be able to follow. Ive heard alot of great things about this surface shader and i thought id help eliminate the guess work; since there are no docs for it.
-Sama
minus
#58
Hah… nice Gir Sama3d – I’ve been working on him myself a bit as of late… Linky . Still need to redo his arms and hands though quite a bit… just watched the show again the other day and I see I have it all wronge.
Good job on the G-Mill tut. Since that big article on HDRI was released recently about LW… a lot of people have been looking for more info on Gmill. Good timing…
Kaiser_Sose
#59
Newbie question but … is this gMil is LW 7.5 or is a t plugin … anyone care to explain in newbie terms
Ryu
#60
Very cool tut about Gmil,
and very cool one too about the diffuse power
I learnt a lot, in no time
That kind of tips are incredibly useful,
Id i found one, be sure i’ll share it with you all…
Bye,