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This book is a visual guide to unleashing LightWave's true power. It breaks down the powerful high-end functions of LightWave and presents them with simple explanations and visual examples.

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This definitive guide to LightWave's hidden power provides a breakdown of functions and some of the most popular plug-ins. - Explores LightWave's more advanced features

- Enables users to begin creating professional-quality LightWave animations

- CD-ROM includes models, textures, project files, and demonstrations of LightWave animations

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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Power comes in many voltages, March 12, 2000

By	E. A. Wilson (Oregon) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Dan Ablan's LightWave Power Guide was the first guide to the software powerhouse Lightwave 3D that I have purchased. The book was intended for version 5.0 of the software, thus it is a little outdated for those who are looking for a book that covers the latest version, 6.0. However, what the book covers applies to even the latest versions of Lightwave.

While the cover looks neat and the book is accompanied by a CD-ROM (filled with tutorial examples, some basic textures, plug-in trials, and example avi movies), the book really did somewhat disappoint me - in that it led me to believe that it was intended for both beginners and professionals. I found that this book did not help me to advance my skill very much, but rather was a well-written overview of the basic features (and some not-so-basic) of Lightwave 3D.

I would only recommend this book for beginners - especially those who have had no previous experience with any other 3D animation software. For them, this book will be a valuable resource; for me, it just takes up space on the shelf.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for every beginner! Fun,easy and informative!, February 3, 1999

By	Mike, illustrator(waymike@hotmail.com) (Sweden) - See all my reviews

When I entered LW3d for the first time I realised that I was going to need some serious help with understanding this rather complex animationsystem. And this book certainly does the job. Ablan takes you through every dialogbox and describes every single function in a easy way. He'll teach you everything between basic Metanurbing to morphing facial expressions and matte compositing. this book gives you the basic knowledge needed to produce high-end animations. Giving this book some time and practise, you will really learn how to master the Power of LightWave.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Should only be read by beginners, but beware, bad tutorials, January 27, 1999

By A Customer

I bought this book after reading the 5 star reviews, and have to admit to being dissappointed with it. Most of the tutorials are for absolute beginners, and the one tutorial I was interested in, the tornado animation, is very badly presented. If you follow this tutorial by the book, you will end up in a mess, which is because the author neglects to mention certain things like 'position your goal null below the last bone', otherwise leaving it where the author leaves it will distort your tornado out of all recognition. There are spelling mistakes at the crucial surface info like 'smoothing on, amount=0.0?? The picture quality in the book is very poor, especially if you want to compare your work with a tutorial. Captions under the pictures saying things like 'the object with the correct polygons selected' are just plain grey all over. I felt I'd wasted my money with this book.