LIGHTWAVE 3D 8 TEXTRNG (W/CD) (OP): .

By Leigh van der Byl

Creating interesting and detailed surfaces for objects and characters in 3D, whether they are to appear photorealistic or stylised, is a process that many artists find complex and confusing. LightWave... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556222858
• ISBN13: 9781556222856
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

A must have book for newbie and pros

Texture and shading knowledge is a key in a 3d world, and Leigh did a wonderful work to write a clean and well document book on how different parameters works, and how texture alter it. if you don't understand texturing and shading work in Lightwave, you will understand it after reading of that book. She did a good work on tutorials and interaction with daily work of texture artist. texture and shading not have segrets, need only to understand how they work in different software. i reed many books, but most of authors are very foggy on "why" and very generous on "do that", Leigh wrote why and where of texturing work. Wonderful book Leigh

Good Book delivers what it promises.

I think the harsh reviews this book has received are childish and undeserved. The comments about Leigh on the forums has nothing to do with the book and are irrelevant. I consider myself to be an advanced user and I also teach Lightwave. Ive been using Lightwave since before it was Lightwave. I also have many years in the 3D industry.The book is targetted at beginners and intermediate users and more then delivers the goods. Leigh covers everything I can think of very thoroughly and in a logical fashion. The book is a nice balance between being informative enough even for an intermediate user but not too heavy with unecessary details that would certainly confuse a beginner. This book is definately better then the manual for explaining texturing and I would certainly use it to use to teach from. I dont agree with all of Leighs views on texturing but I would have to say that those disagreements are at a more advanced level and more to do with particular details rather then the good solid principles she covers. I didnt see much or anything in her book that I didnt agree with. I think its a good solid book and highly recommend it.

Gives a solid understanding of LW texturing and workflow.

I already own Digital Texturing and Painting. I found it to be good but a bit difficult to apply. This book however offers theory and covers practical application as well. Many topics cover common mistakes and offers work-arounds. Being a Lightwave user, I found that the detailed descriptions and renders of the procedurals worth the price of the book alone. This book is a great way to get a jumpstart on texturing and a solid understanding of workflow for Lightwave3d texturing.

Very informative texturing book fore beginners/intermediate

It's interesting to read "A reader" and Kathy's review of this book. I wouldn't have bought it if I just go by their advice alone, it sounds like this book doesn't worth a dime in their opinion. But I did purchase the book before I read their advice, and I found it to be one of those texture book you want to own, especially if you use Lightwave. For other programs, it might not be as helpful, because it's still a LW based book. But it has information that other users of program would find helpful also. The author of this book teaches you why you should or shouldn't do on a texture map, and if you're serious about 3D, any beginner to intermediate users would find the theory and application of this book very helpful, because texture painting principles are fundemental skills common to all programs, not just LW, and this author does teach you those things by referring to Photoshop. The author gives detail explanation of what to look for when you paint your texture, focus on character's face painting, as well as ordinary objects. I must admit I learn a lot from this book alone on paining textures for characters that you can use in games or animation.The book is easy to read and follow. It sums up the author's texturing experience, and it saves especially beginner time from trial and error becasue this book does that for you already, so you can learn from someone who has experience in texturing that would give you a huge jump start. I would say this book is a must-have for LW users, and other program's user who want to learn theory and principles on painting texture would find this book helpful also.If you're serious about 3D texturing, and you want to better yourelf, I would suggest this book a must-buy. Off topic:Recently in newspaper, there is this debate as to who are the people posting reviews here, and it seems that publishers from other companies use this review function to knock down other's book in order to increase their own books' sale. I don't know if this is the case or not, but I think reader should keep this in mind when you read any reviews here.

Wow! This one is a must-have.

Wordware's line of Lightwave books is rapidly becoming an encyclopedic reference to the Lightwave system. This book may be the best one they've done so far.My copy just arrived today, but already I can see that this one is destined to be a classic.This is the first title I'm aware of that's dedicated to the topic of texturing, specifically for Lightwave. It takes a subject that's only covered lightly in the official documentation and expands it to 480 pages of in-depth information, advice and examples.The "all-in-one" Lightwave books always suffer from the problem of trying to cover in one book a multitude of topics, each of which one could make into a career, and each of which could (should) be expanded into a full-sized book of its own. For the topic of surfacing and texturing, this is that book.If you want to learn about texturing in Lightwave, forget about the manual, forget the other books you might have (for now), and GET THIS BOOK!G.