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Basic LightWave MCQ

1. Where can Nodes be found?

Answer

Correct Answer: Shading Samples > Render Globals > Render

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2. Once you have created a subclass of a valid plug-in interface, what must be provided to manage its instances?

Answer

Correct Answer: A factory.

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3. Which of these tools allow you to add more geometry on an edge than a single polygon in an automatic manner?

Answer

Correct Answer: Rounder

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4. When moving, scaling, or rotating a selection in Modeler, it will rotate around the "action center". There are four centers you can choose from, mouse, pivot, selection, and origin. What is the hotkey for Action Center: Origin?

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Correct Answer: Shift F6

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5. In Layout, moving an object over another object and holding down a key will snap it to the pivot point of the object you currently do not have selected. What is that key?

Answer

Correct Answer: Alt

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6. True or False? When plugging a texture node into the base surface node, it disables the ability to change the layer input of the same attribute.

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Correct Answer: True

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7. True or False? In order to use manually drawn bones, you have to have a weight map assigned to the object.

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Correct Answer: False

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8. Which of the following is a Generic_ExportFBXCommand argument?

Answer

Correct Answer: <EmbedMedia>

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9. Subdividing a poly adds more geometry to existing object. What is the default hotkey?

Answer

Correct Answer: Shift D

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10. Instances can be displayed in OpenGL as what?

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Correct Answer: Normal objects.

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11. In Modeler, what tool allows you to move a point or selection of points and connect it to another point, without changing the shape of the selected points?

Answer

Correct Answer: Snap drag tool

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12. When building a skeleton out of bones, and after activating the bones the geometry becomes twisted and deformed, what did you forget to do?

Answer

Correct Answer: Record bone rest position

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13. What three principles is the flocking algorithm based off of?

Answer

Correct Answer: Separation, Alignment, and Cohesion.

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14. Which key opens the "Surface Name" panel – to rename the selected polygons?

Answer

Correct Answer: q

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15. This tool allows for fluid motion with particles which constantly chase a goal object.

Answer

Correct Answer: Flocking Tool

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16. True or False? Saving your scene in Layout will save texture information on your model.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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17. What panel would you find the “Instancer” tab?

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Correct Answer: Layout’s Object Properties panel.

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18. When creating a primitive in Modeler, what does the left and right arrows do?

Answer

Correct Answer: Adds and removes geometry segments

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19. In the node editor, the Carpaint node is considered a?

Answer

Correct Answer: Material node

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20. Lightwave allows 3 and 4 sided polygons to become subpatched in its standard mode. Which SubD type allows more than 4 sides to be subpatched?

Answer

Correct Answer: Catmull-Clark

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21. In Modeler, you can quickly center your selection to 0,0,0 by pressing this hotkey.

Answer

Correct Answer: F2

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22. In the lower right of Modelers interface are the letters W, T, M, C, and S. They stand for subpatch weight map, UV texture map, morph map, color vertex map, and?

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Correct Answer: Point Selection Sets

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23. Radiosity causes Lightwave to calculate light bounce and reflection off of objects in the scene. There are three types of radiosity algorithms you can choose from; backdrop, final gather, and?

Answer

Correct Answer: Monte Carlo

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24. In Layout, shift clicking on an object in VPR will do what?

Answer

Correct Answer: Select the surface in the surface editor

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25. What does Ngon light do?

Answer

Correct Answer: Create n-sided lights.

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26. What is the Lightwaves built in hair and fur tool called?

Answer

Correct Answer: FiberFX

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27. What animated scene would Lightwave's flocking algorithm be useful in displaying?

Answer

Correct Answer: Groups of mackerel escaping seals.

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28. This checkbox in the display preferences shows you what will could be cut off after broadcasting the show. What is the check box called?

Answer

Correct Answer: Show safe areas

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29. How many ServerTagInfo instances can be defined?

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Correct Answer: An infinite amount.

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30. Boolean operations modify two pieces of existing geometry based on where they intersect. There are four types of booleans; intersect, add, subtract, and?

Answer

Correct Answer: Union

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31. In Lightwave, there are 4 different types of UV textures. They are planar, cylindrical, spherical, and?

Answer

Correct Answer: Atlas

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32. Modeler allows you to build a skeleton before bringing it into Layout. What is the tool called?

Answer

Correct Answer: Create skelegons

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33. This view shows you each object and the tree of connections it has under it. What is that view called?

Answer

Correct Answer: Schematic view

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34. Endomorphs is a trait offered by which Interchange Tool?

Answer

Correct Answer: GoZ.

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35. In order to use the Heat Shrink tool, what does your object need?

Answer

Correct Answer: An object in the background layer

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36. After being used to create the digital sets on Avatar, Lightwave added the ability to use hand held devices to move the digital camera in real time. What is that feature called?

Answer

Correct Answer: Virtual Studio

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37. True or False? In order to render faster, Lightwave only renders what is in the cameras view.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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38. What kind of imagery would Fracture be good at creating?

Answer

Correct Answer: Shattering glass.

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39. Is the Global Playback button overridden by individual Play settings?

Answer

Correct Answer: Yes.

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40. How can you make your lighting more subtle in Unity?

Answer

Correct Answer: Use lightmaps.

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41. Where can the Device Manager be found?

Answer

Correct Answer: The Top Menu.

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42. What does Edge Padding do?

Answer

Correct Answer: It creates a user-defined padding so that there are no seams when the size of the map is reduced.

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43. Lightwave instancing clones one object to as many as you want/need. What is the benefit for using instancing versus actually cloning?

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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44. What does Autodesk's Maya do?

Answer

Correct Answer: It reverses diffuse and ambient, making it necessary to back up your project before using it.

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45. Because ServerRecord is constructed at the top level of the environment, what else is it considered?

Answer

Correct Answer: A “global” variable.

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46. What does “Mass Method” do?

Answer

Correct Answer: Calculates the 'heaviness' of an item.

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47. What Workflow Enhancement can you use to align your model after working off the axis?

Answer

Correct Answer: Align to Plane

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48. How do you access a node through your Texture Editor?

Answer

Correct Answer: Choose Node Editor as the procedural texture.

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49. What key toggles between selection modes?

Answer

Correct Answer: Space bar

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50. What is Python Scripting useful for in Lightwave?

Answer

Correct Answer: Creating custom plug-ins.

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51. What is the Control Booth for?

Answer

Correct Answer: Setting up scripts to handle the commands that configure your device.

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52. The new releases of Lightwave allows compatibility with which game engine?

Answer

Correct Answer: Unity

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53. What items are included in bullet's properties?

Answer

Correct Answer: Bullet Group, Dynamic Body, Collision Body.

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54. In Modeler, the hotkey "N" will bring up this dialogue box with useful information about the tools that you use.

Answer

Correct Answer: Numeric box

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55. The new VPR setting in Lightwave allows fast editing of surfaces and lighting. What does VPR stand for?

Answer

Correct Answer: Viewport Preview Rendering

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56. What are three primitives that have been added to the Geometry Group in Layout's Modeler Tools tab?

Answer

Correct Answer: Cube, Sphere, and Ground Plane

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57. What does the Device Manager in Lightwave do?

Answer

Correct Answer: Assigns your connected device to be used with the Virtual Studio.

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58. Which is the move tool key?

Answer

Correct Answer: m

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59. What is Lightwave's flocking system based off of?

Answer

Correct Answer: 3D computer models of coordinated animal motion.

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60. Where are lightmaps assigned?

Answer

Correct Answer: Your surface's Luminosity channel.

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61. IK is a function that allows bones to automatically bend at joints based on a goal objects position in the IK chain. What does IK stand for?

Answer

Correct Answer: Inverse Kinematics

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62. True or False? You can have multiple Instance Generators attached to an object.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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63. Why should there be only one ServerRecord instance in your script?

Answer

Correct Answer: To be sure the Pcore system can locate it.

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64. To make your plug-in live, what must be defined?

Answer

Correct Answer: The ServerTagInfo and ServerRecord structures.

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65. To set the frames per second, what field do you adjust?

Answer

Correct Answer: The FPS field.

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66. What bullet dynamic causes the item to slow down when it comes in contact with other items?

Answer

Correct Answer: Friction.

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67. True or False? There are three ways to surface an object; nodes, layers, and a combination of the two.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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68. Lightwaves built in tabs allow fast access to its various tools and settings. You will find the plugins, python scripting, and Lscripting in which tab?

Answer

Correct Answer: Utilities tab

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69. When surfacing an object and test rendering the look, sometimes it can take a long time to render just to need to adjust and rerender. What function allows you to render only where you are making changes?

Answer

Correct Answer: Limited region

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70. If you wanted to save your configuration settings, where would you save them?

Answer

Correct Answer: %USERPROFILE%\.NewTek\LightWave\11.0\configs

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71. If you have too many transparent objects in the scene, the render may not look as it should. What setting do you need to adjust if the transparency isn't rendering correctly?

Answer

Correct Answer: Ray Recursion Limit

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72. What does the value, “Minimum Samples” do?

Answer

Correct Answer: It determines the camera rays per pixel.

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73. The Exploded Parts toggle is used for what?

Answer

Correct Answer: Creating an exploded morph map of the parts.

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74. If when loading a scene, Lightwave prompts you for object and image location, what wasn't set correctly?

Answer

Correct Answer: Content directory

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75. Can you edit Morph Maps with Zbrush?

Answer

Correct Answer: Yes.

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76. Layout has three different coordinate systems for rotational and transformational purposes; world, parent, and what?

Answer

Correct Answer: Local

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77. Which of the following is an Instanced Object?

Answer

Correct Answer: Visibility.

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78. What is new about sampling in Lightwave 11?

Answer

Correct Answer: It has been unified.

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79. In Layout, what camera will give you a completely flat, straight on image?

Answer

Correct Answer: Orthographic camera

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80. Lightwave now provides a tool for almost instant animation rig set up. What is it called?

Answer

Correct Answer: Genoma

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81. What is maximum render resolution for 32-bit versions of LightWave?

Answer

Correct Answer: 16,000 x 16,000

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82. What does Fracture do?

Answer

Correct Answer: It breaks an item down into parts for use with dynamics.

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