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Tutorials and Scripts 05-Sep-08
Rich Darby-Jones has populated his site with a number of tutorials on a number of different topics from modeling and texturing a alleyway to utilizing multi morphing, creating a engine flame and the basics of motion mixer. He's also put up a number of useful plug-ins and utility items:

Nulls (new) is a collection of various null custom objects from cars to numbers and letters.

Object Cutter (new) "selects all attached polys and places them into a new layer, repeats until all the separate objects have been placed into an empty layer."

Raytrace Options (new) is a simple script to turn on all your raytrace options at once.

Lights2BGRad (new) will quickly turn off all your lights and set up a basic backdrop radiosity scenario for you.

There is also a collection of 46 single pixel color images (for using as BG image etc...).


Newtek Website revised. 03-Sep-08
Newtek has revised and updated their Lightwave web site. In addition to a number of SIGGRAPH 2008 demonstration videos, there are new gallery pics and more...

New utility scripts from even/flow 20-Aug-08
Three new useful scripts from even/flow:

ef Multi Service (new) allows you to easily apply commands to multiple selections such as item visibility, item lock, rename etc...

ef Item Visibility Toggle (new) allow you to toggle visibility for selected items. Commands include inverting, hiding, un-hiding and more.

ef Solid Overlay (new) will give you a matte black camera view overlay, making it easier to see what just what's relevant.


Lightwave 9.5 Radiosity Guide 20-Aug-08
Octree NodesTom Bosschaert has updated his excellent Lightwave Radiosity Guide with all the changes in the recent Lightwave 9.5 release. Did you know you can force LW to show it's "nearest sample cell" or "octree nodes" as cell shaded renders? Neither did I. Great guide.

DP Light 14-Aug-08
DP Light (new) is collection of new light types for your spanky new LW 9.5:

"-Flood Light is a Spotlight with soft shadows.
-Infinite Light is a Distant Light with soft shadows.
-Face Light is an Area Light which always faces the surface.
-Tube Light always faces the surface but with an Y axis constrain.
-Web Light is closer to LW Photometric Light, a bit different also.
-Dome Light works like an occlusion shader.
-Custom Light turns an object geometry into a Light."


Preset Central Returns. 13-Aug-08
Preset Central, a site which allows the sharing of Lightwave surfacing presets, is back in action. A bunch of new features including support for IF2 presets , a standardized environment scene file and even an upcoming utility which allows uploads directly to the site.

Lightwave 9.5 released 13-Aug-08
Looks like LW 9.5 is out of beta. Check out your friendly register.newtek.com for more details :-). (ed. turns out it's the Windows version that's final, the Mac UB still being in open beta at the moment).

 

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