Lightwave 3d
Course
In London
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
London
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Duration
4 Days
LightWave 3D is an all-in-one modelling, animation and rendering package. It allows you to achieve mind-blowing animations and state-of-the-art special effects for television and film.
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About this course
This is an introduction to Lightwave but some understanding of 3D Modelling will be preferable.
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Course programme
LightWave 3D is an all-in-one modelling, animation and rendering package. It allows you to achieve mind-blowing animations and state-of-the-art special effects for television and film.
Prerequisites
This is an introduction to Lightwave but some understanding of 3D Modelling will be preferable.
Course Content Introduction
- Modeler
- Layout
- The Hub
- Screamernet
- Objects, Scenes and Presets
- Workflow within the system
- The Modeler interface
- Points and polygons
- Creating polygons
- Primitives
- Using numeric values
- The 'Modify' menu
- The 'Polygon' menu
- Point distribution tools
- Auto-Geometry
- The 'Multiply' menu
- Adding and subtracting geometry
- Using booleans
- Using drills
- VMaps
- Sub Patch weight
- Endomorphs
- UV Mapping
- Loading and saving objects
- Information held within the object file
- Objects and Scenes
- Surface edit modes
- Basic surface parameters
- Textures and envelopes
- Procedural
- Image maps
- Texture layering
- Shaders
- Using VIPER to aid surfacing
- Object appearance
- Dissolve
- Clip mapping
- 'Unseen by Camera'
- Volumetrics
- Fog
- Groundfog
- Hypervoxels 3
- Lighting
- Shadow types and options
- Lens flares
- Volumetric lighting
- Radiosity
- Caustics
- The Layout interface
- Basic Concepts
- The 'Content' directory
- The grid
- The scene editor
- Selecting and manipulating items in layout
- The NULL parenting and targeting
- Keyframing
- The graph editor
- Manipulating object geometry
- Displacement maps
- Displacement plugins
- Bones
- Particle System
- The Camera Panel
- Backdrops
- Rendering Options
Lightwave 3d