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Old September 5th, 2011, 05:05 AM   #1
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Default Building the Classic USS ENTERPRISE in Lightwave (now released)

I started this tutorial around January 2011 and finished it originally to the month a year later, after much going back and forward while I learned to build this model using only the original tools you have at hand in lightwave when your first load lightwave into your PC or Laptop.

Building the Enterprise is not as easy as you would think and has a few areas that can test any modeler skill, I worked on some areas several times to get something right and once I found a way to get it done (for me the easiest way to introduce a new comer to lightwave modeling), I had to repeat the build again and take images to show the process again.




This Tutorial has been released and revised 19/04/2012 and is now been uploaded into the Downloads section, Remember to access the Downloads you need to have more the 5 posts to access.

Or you can find it on my Blog here.


I set out to keep this as a record of how I build the Enterprise and as an aid to
myself.

I am just getting to the end of my work on the Secondary Hull (difficult)
and I thought it would be time to put some of it out there and see what
happens.


I decided on a few requirements for this for new modeller.
1. I targeted new lightwave users and make it as easy as possible.
2. Only native tools that are standard in Lightwave 9.6 (no plugins).
3. Building it the best way I could think for a new modeller to learn
his or her way around lightwave.


I would like to thank the following

Jennifer DeSalle: aka VK08:
For her guidance and invaluable modeling advise and help
Dan Baran: aka Fretslayer:
For all his support during the build
Alain Rivard: aka Al3d:
For advise given and a look at how its ready done.
Greg Charest: aka Mikala:
For his support and advise
Haveke:
For proofreading.
Pernik:
For giving it a shot
Prologic9:
For sharing his model of the Enterprise
Acidstorm:
For his help and support
Chris Martin: aka evil_genius_180:
For his work on the Enterprise which can be found here in the download area and his tutorial
Scifieric:
For his work on the Enterprise and tutorial in Blender giving me a new approach
Auditor:
For his additional help and feed back

Without their help I would never have finished.
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