It??™s here that you start
most surfacing projects (Figure 3.13).
Within the Basic tab, you??™ll find the following
controls arranged from top to bottom:
?—? Edit Nodes. This new feature in
LightWave v9 allows you to control surfaces
in an entirely new way. You would
click this button and use it instead of
the basic Surface Editor. This feature
will be introduced shortly, and you??™ll
see it used later in the book as well.
?—? Color. Here, you can set the color of the
selected surface by entering values from
0 to 255 for each of three RGB (redgreen-
blue) or HSV (hue-saturationvalue)
color channels. Right-click in the
number field to toggle RGB and HSV modes. Click and hold your mouse button
on a channel??™s numerical setting and slide the mouse right to increase the value or
left to reduce it. Or just click the swatch to the right of the numerical field to open
the standard color picker for your operating system.
To the right of the Color control, as well as the remaining controls in the Basic
tab, you??™ll find buttons marked E and T. Recall that E stands for Envelope??”a
function that enables a given surface-attribute value to vary over time.
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