http://www.cgsociety.org — Keep up to date with all the latest CG news and interviews with studios. Loads of information, artwork, and the largest online CG-related forum.

http://www.newtek.com — NewTek’s own forum for LightWave and other NewTek products. The site has a lot of tutorials as well as extensive forums for the community.

http://www.flay.com — Agreatresource for LightWave plug-ins and news.

http://www.lwg3d.org — LightWave Group, a site for LightWave-related news, along with a bustling forum community.

http://www.spinquad.com — LightWave and industry news, and a very active forum community.

http://www.simplylightwave.com — Great LightWave resource with loads of tutorials and a forum.

www.cgfocus.com — Industry news, articles, interviews, and a forum.

www.subdivisionmodeling.com — Not specifically directed to texturing but useful if you like to model. Cool wire gallery useful for reference and a forum.

http://members.shaw.ca/lightwavetutorials — One of the largest collections of LightWave tutorial links on the web. Fantastic for beginners especially.

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com — Not LightWave at all, but Gnomon Workshop has a fantastic range of digital painting DVDs available that I would recommend to anyone who wishes to enhance and improve their painting knowledge and technique.

http://www.maxon.net — Maxon, developer of BodyPaint 3D.

http://www.righthemisphere.com — Right Hemisphere, developer of Deep Paint 3D and the extraordinarily useful Deep Exploration, the ultimate browser for all file types, including 3D models, video files, images, sound clips, archive files, etc.

http://www.adobe.com — Adobe, developer of Photoshop and a variety of other popular production packages.

http://www.worley.com — Worley Labs, developer of incredible LightWave plug-ins such as Sasquatch, G2, and a number of others.

http://www.shaders.co.uk — IFW2 Procedural Textures web site; be sure to check out the demos on the companion CD.

http://perso.orange.fr/dpont/plugins/nodes/Additionnal_Nodes.html — A collection of fantastic extra nodes for LightWave by Denis Pontonnier.

http://www.ransomactive.com — Fabulous range of texture collection CDs that are extremely useful for photographic references as well as photos to incorporate into your textures.

http://www.realtexture.com/ — Another awesome texture collection on CD and DVD. Real Texture also offers collections of high-quality HDR images for sale. Highly recommended.

http://www.mayang.com/textures — Great resource of textures for free download.

http://www.cgtextures.com — Huge online texture collection; the Animals section has great reference material as well.

LightWave v9 Lighting — Nicholas Boughen, published by Wordware Publishing (1-59822-039-X). Fantastic book for learning lighting principles and sharpening your lighting skills in LightWave. Highly recommended for texturing artists.