3D Tutorials by robinwood.com

Learn to light and render a still frame.

If you are new to LightWave, or if you want to see how I approach a simple model, this tutorial is for you.

I've been getting e-mail from people who are familiar with Bryce, but are just learning LightWave. They want to know if they can use some of their Bryce skills to make LightWave images. Of course you can! The easiest way is ...

Ever need to make a Stained Glass window in LightWave, but the glass won't glow, won't cast colored light, and looks all faded and washed out? Come on in to learn how to make effective, low-poly stained glass windows!

If you've done the other glass tutorials, you should be fairly familiar with what you need to do now. But what do you do if you're modeling a shot glass, and there's a decal on it? Come on in to learn a quick and easy method to apply any kind of decal to any kind of surface!

If you have ever tried it, you know that it takes for-freaking-ever to use both Ray Traced Refraction and Ray Traced Reflection. The good news is, you can get the effect without the render time using a filter that ships with Lightwave!

This lesson goes into much more depth concerning manipulating a model using an endomorph, and introduces the concept of making shapes that are irregular on the model into regular map shapes for ease of painting.

This lesson covers manipulating the vertices on the map, and how to make an endomorph so you can manipulate your model for ease of mapping without any risk of harming it.

This lesson covers how to make a map from scratch, when you don't have any kind of color map or template to follow, by using a checkerboard pattern to ensure that nothing is stretched.

This lesson covers the basics; how to begin a New UV Map, how to apply UV Maps to models, and how to use the basic mapping tools to make planar and cylindrical maps.