Well that was a first. Loaded up a recent scene in LW 2026 to find all the surfacing completely borked. Much head scratching ensued. Loaded the same scene in LW 2024 all ok. Remembered I’d installed some legacy plugins. Clean install later and badda bing, back to normal. 😊 #Lightwave3d

My first two custom toon nodes for Lightwave 3D are on my Patreon. Check it out.
#npr #stylized #toon #celshading #lightwave3d

Looks like I was feverishly rendering ringscape planets a couple of years ago. Sometimes it's good to go full Slartibartfast 😉 #Lightwave3d #Scifi #ScifiArt

LightWaveRTG Recreates the Battle of Hoth on the Amiga
#LightWaveRTG #Amiga #LightWave3D #AmigaComputing #RetroComputing #HoldAndModify #StarWars #AmigaGraphics #3DRendering
theoasisbbs.com/lightwavertg...

Finally got my grubby hands on the complete Babylon 5 series. Didn't remember the whole show basically starts with an introductory zoom to the classic genericpanels.iff

I am old and have become niche

#3d #lightwave3d

volumetric light.

#Lightwave3d

Scene will be shared when I have a few more.

QRP with your moon art! 🌕🌙
#ArtTrain
Moon - rendered in #Lightwave3d

Well looky here, it's the weekend. Early start, chores all done, home alone and unsupervised as my wife is away watching the mighty Plymouth Argyle FC.
There was only ever one way this was going. Time to crank up the music and fire up #Lightwave3d
#ScifiArt #Scifi

Image - "Spaceman" by Marc Hempel

Concepts at Mars. A selection of real space concepts masterfully modelled by @nick-stevens.com and rendered in #Lightwave3D above Mars #SpaceArt

My yearly attempt at an Event Horizon render. Russell Tawns model in #Lightwave3d. As always banging my head against a spooky atmosphere, so gave up 😄 Here she is at Neptune preparing to tear a hole in the universe. #Scifi #ScifiArt

Variations on a theme. #Lightwave3d renders of Jason Tinsleys 2004 Helios model. #Scifi #ScifiArt

"This'll be fun !" I think to myself. Fires up #Lightwave3d, pours a stiff drink and loads up Russell Tawns Event Horizon model. Drops in a new lighting setup and nothing. I'd forgotten how much light this damned (or possibly cursed ?) ship drinks. I swear it's coated in vantablack. #Scifi #ScifiArt

September 2026 adventures, mainly in space. Okay, totally in space!! #Lightwave3d and Photoshop. Guess as it's October I'll have to think of something spooky (eyes up the Event Horizon model). #Scifi #ScifiArt

OK!
I've made a downloadable tutorial / worked example., with all required files

It shows how to applied instanced decorations to a Christmas Tree, & change the surface so that each decoration has a separate colour.

drive.proton.me/urls/R5H36MF...

#lightwave3d 2026, (& recent versions?)

Direct from the #Lightwave3d documentation.

A methodical way of getting rid of noise in Lightwave Renders:
docs.lightwave3d.com/2026/removin...

I've been revisiting the Infinity Blade trilogy on my iPhone recently, and decided to play with some of the assets from the game. These are all models and textures taken straight from the game. When surfacing them in #LightWave3D, I adjusted the contrast on […]

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Amiga TRON Animation Recreated with LightWaveRTG
#Amiga #LightWave3D #LightWaveRTG #TRON #Amiberry #RetroComputing #AmigaGraphics #HoldAndModify #MiDWaN
theoasisbbs.com/amiga-tron-a...

Here is another one, this time #Lightwave3d #AI

Still down the GiTS rabbit hole, watching the series on Amazon( recommended) and re-reading the book. "Thermoptics" rendered in #Lightwave3d and kludged in Photoshop. Does it work ? Not really but it was seriously fun to do and that's all that really matters these days 😊 #Scifi #ScifiArt

#Lightwave3d

Handy hint!

After VPR, there's buffer options, & after that a single drop down arrow. Here you can turn on things like the Opengl overlay, & put a wireframe on the display, (in this example, a cel shaded final render)

Ideal for seeing where stuff is, best of both worlds.