• New-Layout
• New-Modeler
• New-Surfacing
• New-Rendering
• New-Engineering-Updates
• New-Offset-Normal-Instances

Installing LightWave, Render node

Licensing, purchase and activation.

Frequently asked questions.

LightWave 3D’s many features are presented in two distinct and specialized environments.

User feedback is the life blood of LightWave’s development.

Getting Started with Layout.

Provides an overviw of the user interface

Creating a new scene.

User interface overview, layout tab

This tab will allow you to Move, Rotate, Size and Stretch scene objects, although you probably won't need to switch to it for that, since rolling the mouse wheel switches between those options. You will want to switch to this tab to use tools like Move and Rotate Pivot.

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Visit the Rigging tab for instruction on these tools.

The FX Tools tab contains easy-access buttons to set up Bullet dynamics, Fracturing, Flocking and FiberFX. Each is detailed in their respective sections:

The FX Tools tab contains easy-access buttons to set up Bullet dynamics, Fracturing, Flocking and FiberFX. Each is detailed in their respective sections:

• Bullet Dynamics
• Fracture
• Flocking
• FiberFX

These tools are all explained in Rendering.

Navigation tools for Layout. Again, keyboard shortcuts mean you won't need to visit this tab often however, Add Viewport now allows additional floating viewports to be added to Layout.

Tools for creating temporary geometry for Layout. In the Create > Geometry dropdown

The I/O tab is fully described in the Interchange section.