Plug-ins for LightWave 3D

infiniMap

The world at your fingertips

exrTrader

Smarten up your render pipeline

shaderMeister

Unique global shading system for LightWave 3D

db&w Tools

A little something for everyone

infiniMap allows you to use unlimited size image textures within LightWave 3D.

It includes a shader, procedural texture layer and node and provides all projection types.

exrTrader provides complete support for the OpenEXR image file format for LightWave 3D.

It is the ideal companion for anyone using LightWave buffers in a compositing pipeline - even if you don't use OpenEXR.

shaderMeister allows you to override the shading of surface on a scene by scene basis.

This is accomplished by a shader plugin that is applied to all affected surfaces.

db&wTools are a free set of plugins for LightWave that complement our products and also include a few small plugins that should be useful for anybody.

Buy infiniMap Buy exrTrader Buy shaderMeister  

We have db&w softWear available for purchase. Yes, swag: T-shirts, hoodies and other assorted wearables.

Buy SoftWear (Americas, Intl.) Buy SoftWear (Europe, Intl.)

These are available in two stores, one located in Europe and the other located in North America (to keep the shipping cost as low as possible). Both also ship to international locations.

 

25% discount at db&w during the FMX 2012 conference

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Another year has passed and the FMX is about to launch.
To celebrate the CG conference on our home turf (again ;) ) we're offering a 25% discount on all products and bundles for the duration of the FMX, that's from the 8th of May until the 11th of May 2012.

Use the coupon code FMX2012 when you check out at our e-shop to take advantage of the 25% discount.

 

db&w introduce exrTrader LH Edition

db&w GbR are proud to release exrTrader LHE - a version of exrTrader for exceptionally creative users.

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STUTTGART, Germany, April 1st 2012 db&w Bornemann and Wolf GbR announce the immediate availability of exrTrader LHE - a new version of their best selling plug-in exrTrader, designed specifically for exceptionally creative users.

Cognitive sciences have shown left-handed people to be visually more creative due to their right-hemisphere dominance. While critics put this off as obsolete research or "training" (due to having to deal with an environment designed for right handed people); one should note that the same researchers also refer to their subjects as "lefties" or "southpaws", clearly showing their bias.
Independent scientific studies here at the db&w headquarters clearly show that left-handed people are more creative than their poor-right handed counterparts. As examples, while left-handed subjects succeed at extremely creative tasks such as the development of code or writing of manuals, right-handed people are bound to excel at more mundane work such as "creative" book-keeping, the writing of NDAs, license key creation, strategy and management.

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Updates for all plugins available now.

We have been busy and updated all of our plugins.

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infiniMap has been updated to version 1.7a fixing various issues and also improving performance when used with UV maps as well as a licensing issue.


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exrTrader has been updated to version 1.6.1a fixing a licensing issue for new customers. 


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shaderMeister is now at version 1.2 and is finally compatible to LightWave 3D 11. A few issues when using the included nodes in Modeler have been fixed as well.


toolsIcon120 The free db&w Tools now come with the new Schlick's Approximation node as well as a few bug fixes. 


All updates are available now in our downloads section.

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exrTrader V1.6.1 has been released

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A free update to exrTrader has just been released.
It features a small workflow enhancement, speed improvements compressing on Windows as well as a less troublesome licensing process.

Changes since V1.6b:

  • Changed the default location of the license file to be located next to the plugin to prevent licensing issues on Windows
  • Split up the Render Mode into a layout saving option as well as an option to request all buffers for VIPER
  • Updated the zlib library in Windows with a version that is better optimised, resulting in minor speed-ups when compressing EXR images using ZIP compression. The OSX build uses the zlib library that ships with the OS.

The update is available in our downloads section.

 

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