{"id":2033,"date":"2015-10-29T15:31:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T20:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2015-10-29T15:31:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T20:31:44","slug":"nodes-nodes-nodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2015\/10\/nodes-nodes-nodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nodes, Nodes, Nodes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, I&#8217;ve spent time delving into DP Kit. Effectively using these Displacement nodes requires a solid understanding of the Node Editor, something I did not previously possess.<\/p>\n<p>Between reading the Lightwave Manual, reviewing online tutorials, and doing a whole lot of messing around within the program, I have a much better handle on the Node Editor. I am no expert, but it has allowed me to create some powerful node structures necessary to use DP Kit. Below are a few screenshots:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Nodes.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2034 size-medium\" title=\"I've come a long way, baby...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Nodes-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Nodes-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Nodes-1024x615.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Nodes.jpg 1763w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DP Kit has many powerful nodes, and I feel like I&#8217;ve just scratched the surface. I&#8217;m still trying to understand the basic functionality. It is a time consuming process, requiring a lot of trial and error. Sadly, there are not a lot of tutorials on DP Kit, and the documentation is even less thorough. Scouring the forums has proven somewhat helpful (I&#8217;ve even posted a question or two &#8211; something I haven&#8217;t done in years).<\/p>\n<p>Despite all this time and effort, I\u00c2\u00a0believe it&#8217;s worth it. The more I learn about DP Kit, the more cool things I see it can do and create. If only Tim Albee wrote a book covering it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, I&#8217;ve spent time delving into DP Kit. Effectively using these Displacement nodes requires a solid understanding of the Node Editor, something I did not previously possess. Between reading the Lightwave Manual, reviewing online tutorials, and doing a whole lot of messing around within the program, I have a much better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,118],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dp-kit","tag-lightwave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}