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 Image used with permission from ysvry  Renderosity's Neighborhood News is your weekly guide to current happenings around the site. Stop in each week to see what you may be missing! ~Did You Know?~ Movie reviewers wanted for the Front Page News! Come on, you know you want to talk about your latest theater escape. With all the great summer blockbusters, we need the digital artist perspective! If you would like to contribute a movie review, please contact Nick. ~Around the Forums~
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Check out more in the Cinema 4D Gallery! ~Tips of the Week~ This week I approached Renderosity artist, ShamanX on his work in Lightwave: "I don't know if I am slick enough when it comes down to the nuts and bolts of Lightwave. I mainly use it just for the building of machines with a good portion of the work I do in Photoshop. I guess one thing that I like to work in Lightwave is the lighting and "Nernies and Greeblies". I believe that the term " Nernies and Greeblies" refers to all the busy-work on models like air ducts, pipes, access panels, handles, etc. The reason that I like to work this element is to give the lighting some substance to work with. I suspect that I could be much more effeicient by using texture and bump maps but I kind of like the building aspect of modeling. With the lighting, one of the first things that I do is turn down the global lighting to 0%. This allows me to get more dramatic lighting with what I am working on. I use reflections in my images a fair amout of time so another thing that I will do is to turn down the Ray recursion limit to about 4 instead of the default 16 which will cut down on the rendering time. Just a note, I am using an older version of Lightwave, so the newer versions may have aspects that I do not know about in reference to my tips. I am currently using Lightwave 6.5." Nathan Carlisle [ShamanX] Be sure to check out Nathan's Renderosity Gallery ~Contests~
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