Beasty's homepage - Explosion Exploding Cow Tutorial T his tutorial will show you how to explode objects in Lightwave. It is actually a very easy way, but the results are quite good. You even don't have to use the modeller, you can just take an object in lightwave and explode it. In this tutorial, I've used objects that are on the Lightwave CD-rom, but you can take any other object as long at is has enough polygons. The object that is to be exploded can be any object you want as long as it has enough polygons, but for now we'll take a cow.
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Here, with the cow, this is already good. Now we will postion the objects and the camera. Now we will make our cow explode. We will do this by using a displacement map to distort the cow, and at the same time reduce the polygon size. Maybe this isn't clear, but you'll see what I mean as we go further.