Editing LightWave 3D (section)

===Material shaders===
LightWave comes with a nodal texture editor that comes with a collection of special-purpose material shaders. Some of the types of surface for which these shaders have been optimized include:

*general-purpose [[subsurface scattering]] materials for materials like wax or plastics
*realistic skin, including subsurface scattering and multiple skin layers
*metallic, reflective, materials using energy conservation algorithms
*transparent, refractive materials including accurate [[total internal reflection]] algorithms
*[[Dielectric Shader|dielectric shading]] to render the behavior of light rays passing through materials with differing refractive indices