[DragonClaw]

So I spent the last three days after work working on this. Seemed pretty simple to do, but it took me longer than I thought it would.
    Day 1: Figured out how to model the damn "cage" around the sphere... that was a pain. Used a combination of modeling tricks in LW and a plugin. Thought it would be easier... Also added star background.
    Day 2: Building nebula background on 2d planes out of Lightspeed's Nebs, creating alpha images for transparency so stars are viewable. Created transparency procedural texture on a flat plane for the grid. Placed all the nodes. Rendered a 12 second animation overnight for kicks.
    Day 3: Built the line model and all the text along with the black connector spheres. Placed them. Fiddled with some image processing in LW until I liked it...then rendered this!




Download .tga : http://www.mediafire.com/file/jezonmikzky/nodemap1080p.tga

So that's it! Netted myself another background image to cycle through... and I may attempt to recreate a CB Anim using this in the near future. We'll see  

Any constructive feedback is welcome. Also please let me know if I got anything wrong... I triple checked but who knows...


P.S. FPrime is awesome. I'd recommend it for any Lightwave user, if you can afford it Well worth the investment. Makes setting up scenes and testing surface settings 10000x easier and faster.

[edit] Noticed I missed Procyon /facepalm. Re-rendered and fixed.[/edit]

[Galemp]

I made one of these in 3DS Max years ago, but having one  in Lightwave is good too! Well done.

IMO you could pick a better background image, one a little less overwhelming.

[Rodo]

I like it, you should definitely think about making a cbanim out of this.

[DragonClaw]

Thanks for the feedback. Toned down the nebula quite a bit and brightened up the text and nodes ; I agree it looks better.

[watsisname]

I absolutely love it, great work!
My only suggestion may be to try a color other than black for the connector spheres, since they're hard to see where the background is dark.  But perhaps it's not really important to see them. *shrug*
I would love to see CBanim's with this as well.