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On Thu, 18 May 1995, edreams wrote:

> Besides, with the 'name your polygons something different and put an
> image on it' solution, what happens if I need a bump map underneath the
> color map to move and change with the one on the reast of the object.
> (see lizard skin example above).
>
> Any solutions to my troubles?


Yup!  When you go to set your Bump map, first select the same type of
image mapping you used for the Color map, aligned along the same axis,
and then hit Automatic Sizing like you did for the Color map...you'll get
the exact same Texture Size and Texture Center settings for the Bump map
as you have set for the Color map.  Then, when you change your type of
image mapping to something like Fractal Bumps, those same values will
still be in place for Texture Size and Texture Center....all you have to
do now is set a velocity for you moving bumps.

I know what you're saying...Imagine did not TOTALLY suck...there were a
few good features they hit upon around version 2.0, but overall the
program was just not very friendly and it didn't allow users to
efficiently set up animations.  I struggled with Imagine for years...even
before it was called Imagine (anyone remember Turbo Silver?)...and after
about a month of working with LightWave, I never went back!

It would definitely be nice if we could apply multiple textures to the
same surface (and not just Color map OR Bump map OR Diffuse map OR etc)
but I think the the new Plug-In architecture will allow for just this
kind of thing...isn't that one of the things that Xaos Tools is working
on?  And I seem to recall someone mentioning something about Steve Worley
making a Forge plug-in for LightWave....can you imagine (no pun intended)
having the Essence procedural textures available from within LightWave
WITH the ability to layer them?!   Can you say "cool"?

The ability to save Groups of objects (ala Imagine) would be very nice....
how about the ability to set up skeletal structures using Bones from
within Modeler, similar to Imagine's Cycle editor???

Too bad Allen and Stuart don't read this mailing list anymore....

                                      -David Warner
                                       Event Horizon Graphics


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