Transition Glossary

For people coming from previous versions of LightWave some of the terminology used can seem strange. All that is occurring is that LightWave is aligning with industry-standard vocabulary.

• Emission - Luminosity
• Transmission - Transparency
• Specularity - is actually Specular Reflection. It replaces the previous Reflection model
• Sheen - A glancing like shiny fabric
• Scattering - is the color of the surface when light shines on it. Scattering light can penetrate inside a volume, losing strength as it goes in
• Absorption - is when light shines through a surface and some is absorbed and doesn't come out again, you only see the color that's NOT absorbed, the color complementary to the one you chose
• Deformed Coordinates - World Coordinates
• Object UV - A UV map that has been automatically created, for Primitive Shapes for example
• Default UV - A UV map denoted by a bullet point in the name that is designated as a default in the case of several UV maps. It can be used with the Object UV input
• Level Set - Volumetric version of a mesh object