Inside Lightwave 7. With Cd-Rom

Dan Ablan, award-winning animator and LightWave author brings you his best book yet. Inside LightWave 7 has been written to bring you up-to-speed and enhance your productivity with NewTek's LightWave 3D software version 7.0. No other book brings you as much comprehensive information. Work through clear step-by-step tutorials and pick up helpful tips along the way. As the most comprehensive book on NewTek's latest technology, this book teaches you how to enhance your skill set and utilize functions such as: • A complete alphabetical plug-in list • Motion Designer for cloth animation, with collisions • SubPatch modeling for organic creations • New Graph Editor for individual channel control • Expressions for complex animation control • Motion Mixer for nonlinear animation • Compositing for mixing 3D with the real world • Inverse Kinematics for easy control over complex characters • Modeling and surfacing methods for architectural animation • Skelegons, bones, and weights for precise animation control • Broadcast-style logo creation from text creation and EPS files • Proper camera and lighting techniques, including radiosity and caustics • Particle animation for smoke, liquid, blowing leaves, and swarming bats • How to import Motion-Capture files into LightWave 7