20.Here you??™ll find the tools for creating geometric
shapes such as a Box, Ball, Gemstone, and Capsule. These basic (and
some not-so-basic) geometric shapes are key building blocks for just
about anything you want to create. Think about it??”the forms of nearly
everything around you are based on geometric shapes: a television, a
couch, a kitchen sink! A vast number of 3D models start out as primitives,
which are multiplied, cut, shaped, and formed into final objects.
Text
LightWave is famous for generating spaceships and animated characters
but, believe it or not, 3D text is one of its most popular and in-demand
applications. As you??™ll see in Chapter 7, ???Text and Logo Creation,??? you
can make some pretty outstanding broadcast-style animations and
graphics with these tools. But what??™s more, text objects can also be
used as building blocks. For example, you can take the letter C, turn it
on its side, extrude it, and you have a slide you can put into a 3D playground.
Or how about using the letter E as a building block for creating
a 3D maze?
In previous versions of LightWave, to use the text tools properly you
needed to first select the Manage Fonts button, shown in Figure 1.
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