Fantasy Letter

Load up Lightwave Modeler. Create a box with the following settings.


Triple the polygons (Shift+T). Create a surface for this object called “Paper”, set the colour to R: 217 G: 174 B: 136 and turn smoothing on, then save this object as “Paper.lwo”.

That’s it for modeler, at least for now, so load up Layout and load the Paper object in. Place and Rotate the Camera to the following.



Remember to create keys as you make changes to the camera. Select the Light, hit “p” to get the properties panel and use the following settings.



Next, use the following position, direction and size for the light.





If you render a preview now by hitting F9 it should look something like picture 21.


Enter the Image Editor and load in all the images we made in Photoshop, it’s time for some texturing. We are going to start with the Displacement Map, so click the Objects button at the bottom of Layout and then bring up the Properties Panel. Click the Deform Tab, then the Texture button for Displacement Map, use the following settings.


Click OK and render another test render, it should look something like picture 23.



In the properties panel for the object, click the Rendering Tab and then click the “T” for the Clip Map channel, use the following settings.


The Test render would look something like picture 25 at this point.


Now let’s make this look more like paper, so open up the Surface Editor. We will use the transparency map to soften the edges and give them a fibre like look, so use the following settings in the Transparency Texture Channel.


Click OK when you’re done with the transparency texture and then click the T for the Color channel. Use the following texture settings for the first texture.


Once again click automatic sizing.

When you’re done with that one, click “Add Layer” and add a procedural texture, then use the following settings.


Click OK when you’re done with the Color Channel, then render a test render, it should look something like picture 29.