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Subject: Re: Amiga Format Cover
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>Many of you will have seen the cover of the new issue of Amiga Format which
>was rendered in Lightwave. There is a dinosaur in the scene which has been
>`zapped' on the tail by a large spaceship. The dinosaur has a texture mapped
>hide, but at the tip of it's tail the skin faces away to reveal the wire mesh
>underneath (the mesh is also unshaded).
>
>How is this done in Lightwave? Is there a feature which allows you to render
>specific objects/parts of objects as a mesh in Layout? I know there is a
>feature in Imagine 3.0 called `Latticise' which allows this. Perhaps the
>image's creator, Craig Collins, made the object in Imagine and converted it.
Weak guess. You can simply render the image twice, once in full
shaded mode, once in wireframe mode. Use RUB-THRU in most 24bit