• Video Tutorials - LightWave 3D 2019

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Material Components: Introduction to the Example Scene Objects, Environment Light, Physical Sky Shader

Andrew Comb

Tour of the Material Components

Andrew Comb

Material Components: Fresnel Functions

Andrew Comb

Blending Material Components

Andrew Comb

Material Components: The Illumination Material Integrator

Andrew Comb

Material Components: Volumetric Tools

Andrew Comb

Material Components: Simulated Edges, Worn Edge and Chipped Paint Effects, Part 1

Andrew Comb

Material Components: Simulated Edges, Worn Edge and Chipped Paint Effects, Part 2

Andrew Comb

Introduction to Smoothing Groups, Part 1 Getting Started

Elvis “Lewis” Blazencic

Introduction to Smoothing Groups, Part 2 Project: Smoothing Groups for a Car Model

Elvis “Lewis” Blazencic

Introduction to LightWave™ Bridge to Unreal Engine

Mike Green

LightWave™ Bridge to Unreal Engine: Materials

Mike Green

LightWave™ Bridge to Unreal Engine: Lights

Mike Green

LightWave™ Bridge to Unreal Engine: Instancing

Mike Green

New Automatic Object Updating for Layout and Modeler

Oliver Hotz, Origami Digital

Introduction to OpenVDB Creation Tools

Oliver Hotz, Origami Digital

Quick Tip on Using OpenVDB Level Sets for Proxies

Oliver Hotz, Origami Digital

Creating an OpenVDB Cloud Setup

Oliver Hotz, Origami Digital

Creating a Copper Verdigris Surface with the New Patina Shader

Tim Laird, LairdSquared

Leveraging Your NVIDIA GPU with OptiX Library AI-accelerated Denoising for Still Images

Tim Laird, LairdSquared

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System Specifications

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  • Windows™

    Hardware
    • Intel® Core™ 2 or AMD64 with SSE4 instruction set (Bulldozer onwards)
    • System RAM: 4 GB minimum
    Operating System
    • Windows 7 64-bit or better

  • macOS®

    Hardware
    • Intel® Processor
    • 64-bit System RAM: 4GB minimum
    • Available USB Port (for users with existing hardware dongles)
    Operating System
    • Sierra 10.12 or better

  • Display

    Minimum Graphics Card
    • NVIDIA® GeForce® 9 series or ATI Radeon HD 4000 series (minimum)
    Minimum Screen Resolution
    • 1280 x 1024 pixels
    Recommended Graphics card
    • GeForce 10 series or newer at 1920 x 1080 or better

  • Installation Requirements

    Storage
    • All systems require 750MB available hard drive space (excluding content); complete Content library is approximately 3GB.