Army of Nodes (Depth of Field test)

ya it's great now... i don't have the patience to follow any tuts tho gotta build my patience

lol I am the same way, but I the videos helped me. I just hate most tuts cuz..

1) I hate reading
2) They use big words and talk way to intelligent(spellcheck) for me
3) They are long and usually skip something I need to know, leaveing me lost

i'm okay with the big words and all but i always get bored after the 3rd step in the tutorial

well there are a lot more tutorials now, when i tried to learn LW (before i tried to learn 3dsmax or maya) there was hardly ANY tutorials for LW

Gee, when were you trying to learn LW? Five years ago, almost back in the Amiga days?

http://members.shaw.ca/lightwavetutorials/Main_Menu.htm

Oh, and by request, here's the rendered version of my scene. It's far from done, but I guess I'm obligated to show it anyway. :P

okay remove the bottom refration immediately and put it as a semi-opaque light... it'd look so much damn nicer.. and that tower light thingy (the one that shoots out 3 lights) omg that looks almost like a cel shaded render... the heck?

All I have to say is, wow... that looks so nice rendered.

well those are my only complaints... the rest looks good just need more texturing work

If I could make anything that was close to that, I would be happy. I am just practicing like hell trying to catch up with you guys.

well you're gonna probly catch up to me soon... may be you've already done it... i don't know just keep at it and you'll get good eventually

may be you've already done it...

already caught up? lol not a chance... just seeing you work on that eye blows me away and your useing LW something your not familar in.

lol well learning other packages do help... the only package that i cannot adapt to is houdini... all my skills on other packages goes away

True, I am going to mess with XSI and Maya, XSI to teach(like you said before), and Maya since you talk so highly of it.

well XSI and maya are about the packages that EVERY 3d school out there teach, so you can see their popularity

Yeah like that school I was telling you about, there classes are in 3Dmax, but I say if I learn 3DMax I can take what i know into LW

ur right it's all interchangable... i wish houdini was too but then after if houdini was interchangable it would lose all it was good for its uniqueness of workflow

Yeah as much as you talk about it, I should check it out

what houdini? it's really powerful but hard to use... very hard :

Hard eh? well I should learn LW first then, so at least I can learn the concept of 3D Modeling

definitely so all you've been doing so far is polygonal modelling then just smoothing them out with subpatches afterwards?