Lightwave Resources

Links to sites with Lightwave resources.

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• Software -
  • NewTek - Lightwave Home
  • Life Forms|ReelMotion Bundle
  • Life Forms Dance 3.9
• Forums, Message Boards -
  • 3-D Arena
  • 3D Commune
  • The Digital Connection
  • The Great Escape Studio Forum
  • @ Renderosity.com
  • Lightwave Forum @ Postforum
  • Lightwave Forum @ Big-i
• Webrings -
  • Lightwave 3D Webring
    • Member listing
• Websites -
  • 3D Meshworks
  • 3DRender.com - Jeremy Birn 
  • Lightsource - link page 
  • Andrew Weiler - Digital Artist - has tutorials at Digital Producer 
  • Images & Poems - Francesco Franceschi
  • Pixart's Lightwave Page 
  • 3D World 
  • Keith Lewis 
  • Steve's Art Gallery - Stephen Ray 
• Plug-ins - 
  • Shockwave 3D Exporter 
  • terraTools - integrate Terragen with Lightwave 3D 
  • Mastering 3D Graphics 
  • Ozone 3D - by e-on Software 
    • Adds atmospheric effects 
  • Black Feet (English site) - 
    • Defocus Dei for Lightwave, 3DS Max, Amapi, Softimage and every software which exports ZBuffer file (add effects on your computer-generated images) 
    • 3D Browser for Lightwave, 3DS Max, Amapi, Truespace and every 2d files users (automatically create catalogues of 2D files and 3D objects and gives quick 2D and 3D visualization) 
    • Polygon Cruncher for LightWave V5.0 and above, 3ds Max V2.5 & V3.0 (reduces the number of polygons of an objects without changing it's appearance) 
  • Up All Nite - link page
• Tutorials - 
  • NewTek 
  • About.com listing 
  • Francesco Franceschi -
    • How to Create Auto-Stereograms 3D and 2D
    • How to Model a 3D Tress (twisted cable)
    • How to Make a 3D Enema
    • How to Model a Real 3D Knot
    • How to Metanurbize Extruded Curvilinear Polygons
  • Pixart's Tutorials 
  • Lightwave 3D Webring - only 1 so far 
  • Lightwave Tutorials on the Web 
  • Le Sud Multimedia  
    • Tutorials listed by site, by linked icon & by topic 
  • WebReference 
  • Home of 3D - in German 
  • 3D Artist 
  • Up All Nite - link page
• Support & Training -
  • Techex 3D
• Resources - 
  • Lightsource - tutorials, user galleries, textures, surfaces, objects, patches, plugins, utilities, LScripts 
  • Lightwave 3D Webring  

• Link Pages -
  • Le Sud Multimedia 
• Textures - 
  • Lightwave 3D Webring 
  • Commercial - 
    • IFW Textures - Lightwave/Inspire Shaders 
      • $75 gives access to download site for 6 months 
• Meshes - 
  • 3D Meshworks 
    • Star Wars renderings
    • Download craft meshes (.3ds, .max, .lwo, cob)
  • Lightwave 3D Webring 
  • Lannie's 3D Model World   

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