[Starfury]

... and stop using Blender.  However, I need some reference material, and am hoping the Lightwavers among us can help.  Tutorials online, books, whatever.  Any suggestions would be helpful.  Thanks!

[Star Dragon]

I was gonna wait on deleting  50 or so models but no one sent me contact info.. I have some LW models if you are interested? If yes send me info how to get them to you cause no matter what they are ALL gone by Tues morning when I get home from work.

[Edited] I just got done sending you everything I had from Battle Tech, Star Wars, Star Trek, bab5, and other stuff. Like the Sulacco from Aliens with dropship. The Eagle from Space 1999. Naval Units and grond forces. Robots!!! PLEASE if you or anyone else can do smething with those files I sent you make them available if they ever get re-made for in game use! Especially the AT-At's and Gundam/Battle-Tech mechs. Getter 1 is a priority.. I understand you just wanted the lightwave files so if you don't want to deal with the rest give them away or delete them... Thanks.

[Star Dragon]

Check your mail you box is full of models! I will resend 4 batches today...

[Starfury]

Thanks I'll play with 'em and see what I can do.

[KillMeNow]

for lightwave tutorials head over to www.lightwave3d.com they have loads there now very sueful stuff

[Colonol Dekker]

OMG:eek:  Any chance of sending me the SULACO+DROPSHIP !!!!  pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese

[Star Dragon]

Sulacco sure (3ds version I think, don't know if it has textures in it or not, jus teh base model) and Probably no dropship anymore BUT other cool stuff (like 3 versions of Death Star??? and executor SSD).. Tylerium shuttle... misc stuff. USe it people PLEASE tweak it , do what ever you hafta to make them work . and them most importantly SEND THEM BACK FINISHED!!! So the community can use them
thanks...

[Starfury]

Quick question:  I've decided as part of my learning that planets would be a good place to start.  However, I'm having some trouble with the atmospheric "glow", I guess you would call it.  I can't get it to work right.  Any ideas?  I think I need a 3rd layer (1: Surface, 2: Clouds, 3: Atmosphere), but I can't make it work right. Help please!

[KillMeNow]

check the web there is a brillaint tut on how to do planets in lw earth specifically

[Starfury]

Been searching Google, having trouble finding something though... Oh well, at least I know its out there! Thanks!  

edit: Managed to find one, went through it, Pic looks pretty good... tweaking it a little though.

[Carl]

This is one of the best and most exstensive lightwave tutorial sites.http://members.shaw.ca/lightwavetutorials/Main_Menu.htm

[Nobilis Draco]

Planets huh? All right. you do need three layers just as you said but one thing to remember that a lot of people get wrong is to make the atmosphere verry thin. If the earth where an apple the atmosphere whould be about as thick as the peel. for the atmospheres apearence you want to go into the surface editer and make the transparency channel an incidence based gradiant then click the shaders tab select the edge transparency shader set it to transparent and and make the edge threshold something low like 0.120 this gives it the fuzzyness around the edges. as for the spheres TESELATION not globe and remember smoothing only goes so far, don't relly on it to much so make your spheres are about 15 segments. your cloud layer should be about 1/4 the distance betwean the surfacesphere and the atmosphere sphere.

Here are some shots I did of mars using these techniques.
also check out these sites for planet maps Planet Portal and http://www.mmedia.is/%7Ebjj/





Hope this helped!

[Starfury]

eh, this is what I ended up with when I went hunting...

[Nobilis Draco]

It would be nice if you fixed that. Have you had any luck with that planet?

[Terawatt_99]

hey, N_D, you should make the little puff from mars on that second pic green, and see if anyone makes the connection