LightWave V9 Texturing (Wordware Game and Graphics Library) - Softcover

Nieves, Angel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598220292 ISBN 13: 9781598220292

Publisher: Wordware Publishing Inc., 2007

Synopsis

Lightwave V9 Texturing Takes You Behind The Fine Art Of Surfacing Your 3D Objects Using Lightwave 3D. Because Many Artists Find Texturing And Prepping Objects For Texturing Intimidating Or Confusing, This Book Breaks Down The Process And Makes It Easier To Understand By Guiding You Through Lightwave’S Powerful Surfacing Toolset And A Number Of Helpful Tutorials. Lightwave V9 Texturing Also Demonstrates How Easy It Is To Create Surfaces Using Lightwave’S New, Powerful Node-Based Shading System. With This Book Go Beyond Texturing Theory To Find Out What Makes A Great Realistic Texture; Learn How To Build Textures Using Both Lightwave’S Classic Layer System And The New Node Editor; Discover How To Unwrap And Edit UV Maps; Find Out How To Create A Variety Of Surfaces Through A Series Of Tutorials; Enhance Your Surfaces With Gradients, Image Maps, And Procedural Textures.

About this title

Synopsis

This title includes book & CD. The CD contains the book images in full colour, all of the necessary tutorial assets, free models from different artists in the field, and more. It takes you behind the fine art of texturing and surfacing interesting and detailed textures for your 3D objects using LightWave 3D. Texturing and prepping your objects for texturing is a task that many artists find intimidating and/or confusing. "LightWave v9 Texturing" breaks down this process and makes it easier to understand by guiding you through LightWave's powerful surfacing toolset, tutorials, and exercises. LightWave v9 now offers a nodal shading system, which is the standard tool in the visual effects industry for the creation of surfaces.This book will show you how easy, yet extremely powerful and flexible this new system is, allowing you to dive in and create great surfaces immediately. In addition, the author shows how to incorporate a variety of complementary software such as the popular ZBrush 2 into the workflow. He demonstrates how easy it is to create and apply displacement, normal, and texture maps created in ZBrush into LightWave.

Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned artist in the industry, or new to the layer shading system, the new nodal shading system, or both, "LightWave V9 Texturing" makes learning surfacing and texturing in LightWave v9 an enjoyable experience. This title is intended for levels: beginner to advanced.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordware Publishing Inc.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1598220292
• ISBN 13: 9781598220292
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 625