Flash back Lightwave user group meeting from June 7th

Sorry for the lag guys here is a summery of the last meeting.
You can find all links and resources on this page:
http://www.urbanpolygon.com/lwu/

Displacement BOX

link to tutorial.

Posted this as a weblink. Look for it.

Mike lings head.

		Here is the result, you can download all the content of your virtual 
Mike Ling head, there is some tweaks done to the skin using the 
simple skin node in LW9.2 with some custom textures generated from 
the one that Facegen spit out and remember the model has morphs 
for all main facial expressions. Have fun with it and feel free 
to bring animations of what you did with it to the next meeting:

 		For the everyone who left early last time, we shoot Mike from front 
and each site and than pluged the images into Facegen.

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Hey guys, 
 
Thanx for making it to the last meeting.
 I really had a good time hanging out, eating sandwiches and talking geekness.
 
Here are the links to some of the things we played with at the meeting:

 
The face generator app:
http://www.facegen.com/ 
FPrime 3.01:
http://www.worley.com/E/Products/fprime/fp3.html 
The node plugins I mentioned but was not able to recall the URL:
http://perso.orange.fr/dpont/plugins/Textures.htm 
One of the dopest ones:
http://perso.orange.fr/dpont/plugins/textures/ParticlePaint.html 
Here is the direct link to the download page.
http://perso.orange.fr/dpont/plugins/Download.htm 
 
 
Have fun with it. ///
 
(From Antonio): 
Hi, Also GMD showed us that in the new nodal plugin, that the little color balls, are supposed
to link up with the little color balls on the other node.  Simple idea, but when you get that, the
node editor makes sense. Also when you use the occlusion node, you have to select raytrace or occlusion in the
render panel.  Otherwise it won't show up.

Motion Blur in openGL cavet-there is a dropdown arrow right in layout, Make sure your in camera view
to turn it on if your looking for it.
Using TGA files for output.   One reason was that the alpha in photoshop is preserved in another layer.
Try using png, and open in photoshop.  Your image will have one layer with transparancy.  Just not
as easy to use. 

One more shot.Can you find the beer?ANtonio

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For the next meeting we will Stick to this format as much as possible:

7:30 pm - 7:55 pm ----- Arrival and mingling
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm ----- Brief Overview of the nights Meeting
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm ----- Sponsers demos and/or Industry News
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm ----- Tips and tricks
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm ----- Break for food
9:20 pm - 10:00pm ---- Tips and Tricks continues
10:00 pm - End --------- SHOW AND TELL / Question and Answers and User wip.

Antonio