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Introduction to the Halftone Shader
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Introduction to Translate Plus:
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Animating a hose that is connected to an object on each end:
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Animating a muzzle Flash synced to an audio file:
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Introduction to Move Plus:
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Localized morphing used on a face rig:
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Introduction to the Special Buffers options in the Surface Editor:
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Introduction to Render Buffer Export:
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Localized morphing of an object based on the distance of another object:
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Introduction to HardFx and Object Dissolve:
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Rigging and animating an accordion style hinge.:
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Animating a shaded object converting to a wireframe object:
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Animating an Escalator:
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Creating a Radar Motion Trail:
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Creating a model with threads using subpatches and all quads:
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      Be sure to check out JeffrySG's killer technique here as well:
      http://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77441

Introduction to Serpent:
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>Covers Lazy Points, Inertia, Serpent, Cloth FX, HardLink< MetaLink and more!

Animating Tank Treads:
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Note The treads animate smoothly, but the framerate of the capture software shows otherwise. Give the setup a try and you will see how well it truly works.

Creating trussing and framework with ease:
Kickn’ it New School!
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Creating a rope and pulley animation:
Kickn’ it Old School!
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Creating a “Slinky-Style” spring animation:
This one has all kinds of goodies inside.
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Modeling a Tennis Ball:
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Creating Texture Displacement and more in the Node Editor:
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Multiple Bumps on one Surface in the Node Editor:
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Introduction to the interactive Paste Tool:
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Using Multiple Weight Maps on 1 Surface:
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Creating seams in a football model
Multiple tools and techniques covered.:
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Creating Multiple Pivot Points for one Object:
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Introduction to the Create Skin tool:
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Node Editor: Creating Stitches with Procedural Textures:
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2 Methods for creating a PaperClip:
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Using Cloth FX to Tear/Rip Material:
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Modeling a Texas star:
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Creating Foot prints in the ground using Cloth FX:
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Introduction to Cyclist:
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Techniques for animating a spiral motion:
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Animating a train or roller coaster on a curved track:
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1 Weight Map, 1 Surface = Multi-Surfaces :
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Introduction to Texture Guide :
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Introduction to Color Vertex Maps :
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Using Effector to displace a tube :
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How to setup a cartoon oval eye for animation :
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How to setup the spinning light trick and an introduction to Luxigons :
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The spinning Light Trick was first developed by Dave Jerrard if I remember correctly. That guy has created more cool techniques then anyone I know!

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Introduction to texturing with image maps:
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Buttons on a Shirt that uses Cloth FX:
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Setting up an animation of multiple pins driven by a displacement map:
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Now go off and do something like this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0u0AG_floQ

Setting up an animation rig for window blinds:
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Creating a curved metal weaved mesh:
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Animating carpet rolling and unrolling:
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Animating a bouncing ball using a particle emitter:
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Introduction to Compositing inside of LightWave:
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Creating a bottle rocket type animation with particle emitters:
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Winding a flag around a pole using Soft FX and then the same thing with Cloth FX:
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Creating rain splashing on the ground using particle emitters:
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Booleans vs Speed Booleans:
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Setting up a Distance to Object Gradient in the Node Editor:
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Relativity : Dr. Wheel Rotator:
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Using Endomorphs in the Modeling process:
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Creating spiderman type suit webbing:
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Using a Clip map with Shadow Maps:
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Animating a Page turning:
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We need to make this thread a Sticky thread here in the LW area… just like it is over on the NT forums!

Thx again William!!! :smiley:

ok you got it William:

Intro to Hard Surface Subpatch Modeling videos

  • Creating a subdivision surface / subpatch cube with rounded corners
  • Cutting a subdivision / subpatch hole through a cube
  • Creating an extruded cube off of the face of a subdivided object
  • Create a curved object with rounded corners (done in Silo)
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You should add your vidz to this thread!

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William (we love U) :scream: :thumbsup: :buttrock:

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Thank you for this videos. They make everyone happy :smiley:
Well maybe not in the house: ‘William, dinner is ready!’ ‘Just a moment im just finishing to explain how you can animate an elephant with particle system and displacement nodes, honey’!

Your videos are very important to those like me that had someone that shown me LW, and then i had no help to move on, other then… Help file… :F

#6

many thanks for these vids william

even for a long long time Lightwave user like me it shows i still need to learn so much about lIghtwave.

cheers
Neil

#7

sooo…what am I doing wrong? I can’t access the ftp site via the posted links, do I need to use an ftp program to log onto the server or something? I just get a connection reset error. I would like to go through these vids while I have some downtime, is anyone else having problems?

[EDIT]

I’ve found the problem, it’s Windows firewall. Until recently AVG internet security’s firewall didn’t work with XP x64 so I had it disabled & used Window’s instead, AVG seem to have updated the application now so I enabled the firewall, disabled Window’s firewall & I can download the files. I wouldn’t have been so confused if I didn’t get a “server has reset the connection” error which made me think that it was a server-side problem…ah well.

Thanks William, I’ll get some learnin’ done over Xmas between nut-roasts & whiskey :thumbsup:

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:applause::applause::applause::applause: … Bravo Proton.

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You should be able to just right click the links to save the movie files… I’ve never had any problems or delays in getting the files, but I have heard one or two people have problems. Not sure why…

#10

thank you jesus!

THIS IS GREAT!

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Like everyone else is saying…THANKS! These tutorials are awesome!

#12

Nice stuff what made you share these vids with the light wave community just wondering What inspired your drive? For the vids

LW Ruels

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Big fist knockin thanks! :thumbsup:

Almost overwhelming but I’m grabbing everyone of these well narrated videos.
William has one of the better voices for this type of presentation.

Excellent work!:applause:

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Extremely much appreciated! :thumbsup:
I haven’t had a chance to check them out in detail, but the one’s I have…have shown some very cool info. Looking forward to putting them to use.

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So is this what you do during the Holiday break from the Dave School? Hehe … your tutorials are mucho appreciated William! :slight_smile:

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I dont go on break from Dave school till next week…the school is all year round except for one week at the end of December…

btw- the running time has changed to over 8 hours :slight_smile:

#17

So many inspirations…mainly want to show why artists and studios like using LW .

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Mission Accomplished! :applause:

#19

Awesome resource. Thank you, William.

#20

Many thanks for these video tutorials!
Much appreciated :slight_smile:

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