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Title: The LightWave 6.5/7.0 Project Handbook by Patrik Beck ISBN: 1-58450-094-8 Publisher: Charles River Media Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.17 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I like this book...
Comment: So you've purchased Lightwave and are confronted with an endless array of tabs and menus. You have some idea as to what HyperVoxels are, (or maybe not), but certainly don't know how to activate or create them, or know how to assign bones, model simple items and assign surfaces to them, or use lighting to create various effects. If you are looking for a good place to start, I personally found this collection of short projects to be a great way to begin to understand some of the many things that you can do with Lightwave; providing a great launching point to start experimenting from, now having a primary understanding as to how to "get around" in the program. Those with previous experience in Lightwave specifically or other advanced 3D applications in general may not benefit from this book, but I sure did. I spent a fair amount of money for this program and it has been useless to me - until now.
While it doesn't cover any one aspect of Lightwave completely, it does introduce a new user like myself to a wide range of key features of the program. The tutorials are step by step, and once you have finished a lesson you begin to immediately have ideas as to how you can apply them. Reading this book has given me the general understanding I was wanting in order to proceed with more in-depth books such as Lightwave Applied and Inside Lightwave. While some reviewers have accused this book of glossing over some of the details, I have found that the introduction to a wide range of topics and tutorials worth the trade off in detail in any one area. Plus, it was fun.
Oh yeah... and don't buy Modeling in Lightwave by Shamms Mortier; it's the worst computer book ever conceived.
Rating: 3
Summary: Where is Lightwave 7.0?
Comment: This book is helpful for beginners (like me). It applies Lightwave to several problems using a wide set of tools with imagination. Sometimes I missed some explanations: why this value for that field, ...
Can't say Lightwave 7.0 manual is the best manual I ever read... I think Dan Ablan's "Inside Lightwave 6.0" it's a better book providing a lot of detailed information, but these are different books covering different areas and projects so you can learn a lot from both.
My biggest complain about this book is that the author did not take a look at Lightwave 7.0 nor reviewed his tutorials, so many of them don't work as expected in release 7.0 (although it is said that enhancements made in the new release are noted in the book, it's not really true). For instance, "additive" blend mode in release 6.5 is now called "normal" in 7.0, standing "additive" for a different blend mode; some window panels have now different parameters... but you won't find a note for that, so read your Lightwave manual carefully. 7.0 it's just marketing...
Nevertheless you can learn a lot from the basic techniques and how to approach different problems. It is a good book to get started with Lightwave.
Rating: 4
Summary: A must have for any Lightwaver
Comment: This is an excellent book, and very applicable to version 7.5 as well. It consists of many small tutorials and has some excellent solutions to complex problems. The only complaint I can find with this book, and the only thing keeping it from 5 stars, is that the book gets you going on creating an effect, then kind of trails off with some suggestions for improving the effect.
Some of the effect ideas in this book are well worth the price of the book. Mr. Beck's burning paper effect is awesome, and the time to work thru the tutorial and create the effect is very minimal (5-10 minutes). I've worked several of the tutorials in this book and found myself saying "Wow!" quite a few times.
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Title: Inside LightWave 7 (With CD-ROM) by Dan Ablan ISBN: 0735711348 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 28 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: The LightWave 7.5 Primer by Patrik Beck ISBN: 1584502223 Publisher: Charles River Media Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Inside Lightwave 3D (Inside...) by Dan Ablan, Patrik Beck, Mike Desantis, Bill Fleming, Bob Hood, Prem Subrahmanyam ISBN: 1562057995 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Lightwave 3D 7.5 for Windows and Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) by Art Howe, Brian E. Marshall ISBN: 0321179129 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 19 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Lightwave (6.5) Magic (Magic (New Riders)) by Dan Ablan, Phil South, Graham McKenna, Stuart Penn, Gary Whiteley ISBN: 0735709963 Publisher: New Riders Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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