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.

 

Sancho "Dead Girls Eye" on Kickstarter

SanchoJeremy from Pixel Eight is looking for backers for his animated short.

Have a look at the concept and feel free to support it on kickstarter if you like it.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1074369226/sancho-dead-girls-eye

 

exrTrader used in TERRA NOVA and Ironsky

exrtraderlogo160exrTrader is currently in use in two high profile productions, TERRA NOVA a television series by Steven Spielberg and Ironsky, an independent science fiction feature film from Finland.



TERRA NOVA

LightWave 3D and exrTrader were used for the production of the pilot as well as the first season of TERRA NOVA.
Here's a few links to articles about the vfx of the show:

http://www.screenmag.com/story/2011/sep/30/8904/

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/dino-sized-effects-in-terra-nova/

http://www.animationxpress.com/index.php?file=story&id=40361

"Almost everything rendered out of LightWave 3D at Pixomondo-Burbank uses exrTrader to do it. I'm not sure LightWave could have as easily delivered what the TERRA NOVA compositors wanted without exrTrader."
- Jennifer "Celshader" Lynn Hachigian, artist on TERRA NOVA


Ironsky

Ironsky is an independant science fiction feature film currently in production in Finland. exrTrader is used on all the shots rendered in LightWave 3D.
More information about the innovative movie on their website which is well worth a read as well as the CGI Diaries on youtube.
There's also some candid behind the scene reporting in Liberty3D.

 

infiniMap V1.7 to support LightWave 3D 10.0

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We have just released infiniMap V1.7 which supports LightWave 3D 10.0 specific features and fixes a few issues.
infiniMap V1.7 is a free upgrade for existing owners. 

Changes for Version 1.7

  • in LW 10.0 infiniMap uses a new API to get a list of installed image loaders for the converter, removing the reliance on reading the plugin config files
  • Support for colour spaces in the converter as well as all plugins (if running in LightWave 10.0+)
  • Fixed various issues in conjunction with VPR
  • Fixed bump mapping when used in conjunction with UV maps
  • Blending over a background in the vanilla infiniMap node works again

It is available in our downloads section.

 

exrTrader V1.6b released

exrtraderlogo160We have just released exrTrader V1.6b.

This is a free bugfix release, the following issues have been fixed:

  • Flipping a single channel now occurs before the processing options for a buffer to ease working with RSMB
  • Fixed a crash when saving normal images with alpha but the alpha channels wasn't actually activated by the user
  • If LW is rendering stereo frames but the %eye% variable is not used then exrTrader will add _L or _R to the frame name just before the frame number
  • Fixed a cross platform issue when subdirectories where explicitly defined in the output file. The slashes are now converted depending on the host platform
  • Fixed a rare crash when no alpha was selected for saving

It is available for download here.

 

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