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Ok, i'm totally new to light wave and when i first opened it, i got lost just by looking. Where can i get some good tutorials for the modeler (version 7.5 i think, or version 7). I'm really looking into things such as monster modeling to make monster with it off the top of my head. All tutorials greatly thanked for and thanks in advance

-Wraith

hiya wraith, im postin on ere cos ur in bed ill message u tomoz, i wornt b on till long,
neway

go to
http://www.3dlinks.com/tutorials_lightwave.cfm
is a good 1 sum of em r rly ez to understand

and
http://members.shaw.ca/lightwavetutorials/Main_Menu.htm


ps, does ne1 know ne tutorials that r rl ez to understand for sum1 who is jus begginin lightwave, that explains were to go.

thx sharp. and wraith cos he will want 1 to.

ps. wraith u hav lightwave 7.0

Well, unforutunatley all the tutorials here are in english so your out of luck. :)

i was wondering if there is a helpfile i could locate which explains every single tool in LW7.0 or LW7.5

Yeah there are online manuals in your Lightwave directory. They are in Adobe Acrobat format (*.pdf).

Out of luck huh? Well i think you mean in luck cause i speak and read english :P
and thanks sharp for those links, ill check em out

since i have jus started using LW im not used to the hotkeys or actually i have no clue about some tools.....anyway i would like to kno how to smooth the model just like how Phillip did in this picture
http://free.inkfrog.com/pix/R4s1n/face.jpg

Either tell me what the tool is or what the hotkey is for it. thanx!

Tab to activate subpatch mode.

is it because i have LW7.0 that when i activate the subpatch all the original lines and vertices turn green.... i mean it still smoothes it out though but can i change the color of subpatch because this is what i get and it gets laggy
http://free.inkfrog.com/pix/R4s1n/hand.jpg

unless that is what ur supposed to get

yea i wud like to know how to get rid em em to :) thy rly do get in the way wen u hav alot of polys

btw wat is classed as a 4 point poly? i thought it was a poly which only has 4 points like a square. but i hav no polys over more sides that a square and it still says i got 4 point polys.

R4s1n: the green lines is the subpatch cage, to turn it off press 'd' and uncheck 'Show Cages'

thanx digi

another question!
i know that the biggest size of the avatar can be 75x75
is that the size of everybodies cuz im thinking of adding one myself