LightWave 3D 8 Texturing with CDROM (Wordware Game and Graphics Library) [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

My copy just arrived today, but already I can see that this one is destined to be a classic.

This is the first title I'm aware of that's dedicated to the topic of texturing, specifically for Lightwave. It takes a subject that's only covered lightly in the official documentation and expands it to 480 pages of in-depth information, advice and examples.

The "all-in-one" Lightwave books always suffer from the problem of trying to cover in one book a multitude of topics, each of which one could make into a career, and each of which could (should) be expanded into a full-sized book of its own. For the topic of surfacing and texturing, this is that book.

If you want to learn about texturing in Lightwave, forget about the manual, forget the other books you might have (for now), and GET THIS BOOK!

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But I did purchase the book before I read their advice, and I found it to be one of those texture book you want to own, especially if you use Lightwave. For other programs, it might not be as helpful, because it's still a LW based book. But it has information that other users of program would find helpful also.

The author of this book teaches you why you should or shouldn't do on a texture map, and if you're serious about 3D, any beginner to intermediate users would find the theory and application of this book very helpful, because texture painting principles are fundemental skills common to all programs, not just LW, and this author does teach you those things by referring to Photoshop.

The author gives detail explanation of what to look for when you paint your texture, focus on character's face painting, as well as ordinary objects. I must admit I learn a lot from this book alone on paining textures for characters that you can use in games or animation.

The book is easy to read and follow. It sums up the author's texturing experience, and it saves especially beginner time from trial and error becasue this book does that for you already, so you can learn from someone who has experience in texturing that would give you a huge jump start.

I would say this book is a must-have for LW users, and other program's user who want to learn theory and principles on painting texture would find this book helpful also.
If you're serious about 3D texturing, and you want to better yourelf, I would suggest this book a must-buy.

Off topic:
Recently in newspaper, there is this debate as to who are the people posting reviews here, and it seems that publishers from other companies use this review function to knock down other's book in order to increase their own books' sale. I don't know if this is the case or not, but I think reader should keep this in mind when you read any reviews here.