Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Note
Figure 3-49
The little “E” button
means you can assign
an envelope for that
setting to change over
time. The “T” button
opens up the Texture
Editor where you can
assign painted or
procedural (mathe-
matical) textures.
To quickly get rid of
an envelope or a tex-
ture (if you've clicked
on the buttons just to
see what they brought
up and are now won-
dering how to
deactivate the button),
simply hold <Shift>
while clicking on the
button.
Figure 3-44
Figure 3-47
Figure 3-45
Figure 3-48
Figure 3-50
Smoothing tells LightWave to look to the Smooth
Threshold when shading the joining of two polygons. In
Figure 3-50, if two polys meet at an angle of 89.5º
or less
,
those polys are shaded as if they were one smooth sur-
face. If polys meet at 89.6º
or more
, there would be a
sharp “crease” visible where they join.
The Double Sided setting is also shown in Figure
3-50. Activate this to make a planar polygon visible from
either side, regardless of which way its surface normal is
facing.
Figure 3-46
