Inside LightWave 8

by Dan Ablan

Book Overview

Filled with step-by-step tutorials and tips on Light Wave, this book covers the topics plug-ins, Motion Designer, Sub Patch modeling, Graph Editor, expressions for complex animation control, Motion... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735713685
• ISBN13: 9780735713680
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: New Riders Publishing
• Length: 946 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Resource

Although I have not finished "Inside LightWave 8" (it is a long book), the progress I have made so far has been well worth the price. The information was presented in an orderly and timely fashion, and I think I will prosper for years to come as a result of the instruction that was offered via this resource. I recommend it for all beginners, but be prepared to spend some time reading it beside your computer. LightWave is a powerful program, and it will not be learned quickly. This reference will speed the process along as well as anything I have encountered.

Inside LW8 - another hit!

Like many other's I've been waiting for this book to ship, and I am not disappointed. I am pleased with the content and the bonus instructional videos. Excellent work, excellent book, excellent value! Thanks Dan!

Finally!

I've been anxiously waiting for this book. I bought it direct from the author (signed too) and am thrilled with this new edition. The other lw books out are great - but for a fat book full of tutorials I really like this one. It's almost 1000 pages and I was happy to find great stuff about UV mapping, tons of modeling and lighting and screamernet, rendering. It was very cool that there was a DVD in the book too with color images and a ton of extra video tutorials. Great great purchase for $40! Good job Dan - you did it again!

Dan Does It Again!

Ok, so it's only 950 pages over Dan's last book of 1200. But believe it or not, I was surprised to see more information in this new book even with less pages. It's clear that he took users comments to heart and really changed this book - it's well organized from chapter 1 to the end. I have Inside 7 and it's great - but some tutorial chapters are really really long. With Inside LightWave [8] each tutorial chapter is very comfortable but also very informative too. I have not gone through it all because tehre is so much but every possible modeling method is in here. I'm happy to report extra texturing info and the dvdrom and 3dgarage videos make it worth every penny. I feel bad for the other software manufacturers because they don't have a Dan Ablan book!