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Making Guanajuato Alley

I visited Guanajuato an old Colonial city in México, truly inspiring place, with amazing architecture, cozy alleys, colorful buildings, and a lot of tunnels, a must visiting city, and I get the inspiration from there.For this tutorial  you need to know the basic tools from Lightwave and basic knowledge of Photoshop.© Eugenio Garcia Villarreal

Making the head of the Moria Orc

A brief look at the modelling of my orcs head, and a nice in-depth look at how I did the UV mapping, and painted the different textures for his head. © Leigh van der Byl

A Realistic Lighting Rig by Andy Nicholas

This tutorial will show you how to create a lighting rig that will simulate daytime lighting conditions. Most importantly, it will allow you to easily adjust the rig so you can reuse the rig in many different scenes. This tutorial was written by Andy Nicholas who is an experienced freelance artist and programmer. © Andy Nicholas

Lightsabers by Mike Hobson

Making Lightsabers in LightWave with a little help from Adobe After Effects. © Mike Hobson

How to make a SOCCER BALL by Gianluca Panebianco

"We can start to say that this tutorial is very simle, but probably it's a little boring..." © Gianluca Panebianco

Leg skelegon setup in Modelerhttp://www.3dluvr.com/blackbourn/web/tuts/rtut.html
zeb's head modeling video tutorialhttp://stocksite2.free.fr/tutorials/Zeb_Tut.avi
UV texturing in Lightwave by Max Glickhttp://www.borderequals0.org/articles/uv_intro.cfm
Todd Grimes updated character tutorialhttp://www.evil-plan.com/CS_01.html
Philip Meyer's JD Bottle tutorialhttp://www.liquid-arts.de/tech/JD/JD-01.htm
Mgfx miscellaneous tutorialshttp://www.mgfx.net/
BAROBA's tutorialshttp://www.lwg3d.com/
Rigging tutorialshttp://www.pazur.3d.pl/
Miscellaneous Tutorialshttp://lw3dresource.com/links/Tutorials/
Miscellaneous Tutorialshttp://www.niklasindustries.com/tutorials/index.php
Modeling Tutorialshttp://www.nickscott.fsnet.co.uk/
Modeling Tutorialshttp://www.trhlogos.dk/
Better Space Tutorialshttp://www.ap3d.com/betterspace/
Miscellaneous Tutorials and other stuffhttp://www.3dlinks.com/tutorials_lightwave.cfm
Creating a spreading flamehttp://users.otenet.gr/~nixx/flame_tutorial.htm
Quick LW 7.5 tutorialshttp://www.3dluvr.com/blackbourn/web/tuts/stut/stut.html
Pose Mixerhttp://www.3dluvr.com/blackbourn/web/tuts/pmtut/pmtut.html
Adding detail
http://www.yahlls.com/htm/tut_eng_model_detail.htm
organichttp://www.yahlls.com/htm/tut_eng_model_organic.htm
Disc to four side polyshttp://www.yahlls.com/htm/tut_eng_model_disc.htm
Flame tutorialhttp://users.otenet.gr/~nixx/flame_tutorial.htm
gMil surface shader tutorialhttp://www.eliteops.com/sama/whatisgMil/index.htm
Lukasz Pazera tutorialshttp://www.forum3d.kom-net.pl/f3dftp.php?id=191
Smartskin-like deformationshttp://www.digitalberet.com./feature.html
Miscellaneous Tutorialshttp://mysite.freeserve.com/lightwave/default.htm
Miscellaneous Tutorialshttp://www.geocities.com/rgkovach/index.htm
Updated tutorialhttp://www.yahlls.com/web/tut/tut_pdf/
Lightwave 3D Tutorialshttp://www.lightwave3d.com/tutorials/index.html
Wormhole Tutorialhttp://www.lwg3d.org/v3/tutorials.php?id=102
Motion Designer Tutorial
http://www.lightwave3d.com/tutorials/animation/curtain/index.html
Stickman's head creation tutorialhttp://www.stickman.de/content/stuff/process/tutorials/tutorials.htm
Detailed Lightwave Tutorials for Beginnershttp://www.trinitymediainc.com/Tutorials/
Corrective Morphshttp://www.3dluvr.com/blackbourn/web/tuts/cmorph/CMorphs.html
Suture's Modeling with Lightwavehttp://www.suture.net/tutorials/modeling/
Screamer Nethttp://www.firedragon.com/~fabio/screamer/screamer.htm
Miscellaneous Tutohttp://www.dbki.org/misc/tutorials.html
HDRI Tutorialhttp://www.highpoly3d.com/writer/tutorials/hdri/hdri.htm
Sky Tracer Tutorialhttp://www.cgfocus.com/ArticleDetails.cfm?ArticleID=195
WIP: realistic earth à la Lightwavehttp://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36740
weight map tutorialhttp://www.chrisevans3d.com/tutorials/weights.mht
LightWave Tutorials on the Webhttp://members.shaw.ca/lightwavetutorials/
LightWave tutorials on NewTek's sitehttp://www.lightwave3d.com/tutorials/index.html
Celshader.comhttp://www.celshader.com/

Plugins

Vectogonshttp://www.dv3productions.com/plugins/vectogons.zip
PolySubDividehttp://www.m2estudios.com/Files/PolySubDivide.zip
Unwraphttp://mywebpages.comcast.net/erniew/getstuff.html
DStorm Pluginshttp://www.dstorm.co.jp/DS_E/index-e.html
Pointfit (also for wrapping)http://www1.plala.or.jp/Otsuka/graphics/plugins/POINTFIT.HTML
HDRI Pluginhttp://www.rendermania.com/HDRI/
Commercial KeyTrak Pluginhttp://www.spatial-design.com/plugins/KeyTrak/index.htm
Edgetool Pluginhttp://www.flay.com/GetDetail.cfm?ID=1355
Point Rail Selectorhttp://www.flay.com/GetDetail.cfm?ID=1046
Key Rest Posehttp://www.flay.com/GetDetail.cfm?ID=1400
Move & Align V2http://www.m2estudios.com/move_align.htm

Link Lists:

Thanks for this list to Tommi (source)
http://members.shaw.ca/lightwavetutorials/Main_Menu.htm - A LOT OF links to tutorial on LightWave!


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