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the world at your fingertips

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 . infiniMap supports OpenEXR, JPEG 2000 and ECW images, an image conversion tool is included.

infiniMap is available in 3 editions, infiniMap Pro, infiniMap Exr and infiniMap Le.

infiniMap is currently available for LightWave 3D 9.0 and higher, Windows 32- and 64-bit as well as OSX UB (please note, the OSX version currently only supports EXR images).

The unlicensed version includes a fully functional shader that can use planar mapping on the Y axis and may be used for free.

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smarten up your render pipeline

exrTrader provides complete support for the OpenEXR image file format for LightWave 3D. It is the ideal companion for anyone using LightWave in a compositing pipeline.

exrTrader includes standard image loaders and savers as well as an image filter saver that allows for the saving of any render buffer provided by LightWave 3D. Buffers can be saved to a single or multiple OpenEXR files. Support of VIPER to preview buffers makes selecting them very intuitive.

exrTrader is currently available for LightWave 3D version 7.5 to 9.X, Windows 32- and 64-bit as well as OSX.

The unlicensed version includes the fully functional OpenEXR image loader and saver and may be used for free.

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unique global shading system for LightWave 3D

shaderMeister allows you to override the shading of surface on a scene by scene basis. This is accomplished by a shader plugin that needs to be applied to all surfaces that should be overridden by shaderMeister.

When rendering the shader plugin will detect if a shaderMeister global shading network is present and then evaluate it.

The shaderMeister global shading network itself is saved with the scene. A master handler plugin manages it.

shaderMeister has been designed with compositing pipelines in mind that need to break out complex passes.

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Buy shaderMeister & exrTrader Bundle

We also offer various bundles of infiniMap, exrTrader and shaderMeister as well as updates from infiniMap Exr to infiniMap Pro in our on-line shop.


db&w tools 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.

Last Updated ( Monday, 01 March 2010 )
 
shaderMeister V1.1a released

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We are proud to announce the second free update to shaderMeister, the global shading solution for LightWave 3D. Thus update fixes various small issues that showed up after the release of version 1.1.

Changes since V1.1:
  • Fixes to the preset system to make it more tolerant to directories and files others than presets in the preset directory.
  • Added the ability to define custom locations for presets
  • Made the warning when applying the shader more explicit.
  • Fixed an issue with the master handler reading beyond the settings designated to the plugin within the LWS

The update is available to registered users in our download section.

Last Updated ( Monday, 01 March 2010 )
 
shaderMeister V1.1 released

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We are proud to announce the first free update to shaderMeister, the global shading solution for LightWave 3D.

Changes since Version 1.0:
  • Added Comment Nodes
  • Added a LightGroup Node that affects upstream nodes connected to it.
  • Add a node for a single, global LightGroup. This is saved with shaderMeister and can either affect upstream nodes as the normal LightGroup Node does, or can affect the shaderMeister shading graph if it is enabled in the master plugin.
  • Various internal changes
  • Minor bugfixes to the order of evaluation of the inputs
  • Fixed the adding and removing of the shaderMeister shader to be more reliable
  • Added a third party SDK, available upon request.

The update is available to registered users in our download section.

Last Updated ( Monday, 18 January 2010 )
 
db&w Tools V1.5 released

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We've just released db&w Tools V1.5.

Changes sice the previous version:

  • Sequencer Node
    (This one is extremely handy when rendering out matte passed based on IDs.)

  • Added "Revenge of the Lenscap" image viewer (Please be careful with that one!)

  • Various extensions to existing nodes and bugfixes.

We also finally have a proper HTML page with documentation here.

We hope you enjoy working with these plugins. As always, we're grateful for feedback, feature requests or even bug reports(!).

Last Updated ( Friday, 08 January 2010 )
 
How to create a Hypervoxels pass with shaderMeister
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We've just published a sample scene and an explanation in our forums on how to use shaderMeister to create a Hypervoxels pass that still reflects and refracts the hidden items.

There's also a few other interesting presets for shaderMeister available in our forums.

Last Updated ( Monday, 12 October 2009 )
 
exrTrader V1.4.1 available now

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We have just released version 1.4.1 of exrTrader.

This release features a number of feature requests from our users.

The free update is available in our downloads section.

Last Updated ( Sunday, 27 September 2009 )
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Marc, a Swiss shaderMeister

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Merc Hermitte from digitart not only helped us advance shaderMeister, but is foremost an accomplished artist.

He shares some of his experiences with shaderMeister and a sneak into his future projects with us.

Last Updated ( Monday, 21 September 2009 )
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shaderMeister V1.0 released
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We're proud to announce the release of shaderMeister, our third commercial product.

shaderMeister allows 3D artists to override surfaces in LightWave3D on a global level for an accelerated workflow, reduced steps and new time-saving techniques for working with ambient occlusion (AO) as well as custom passes.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 15 April 2009 )
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New pricing for US customers...

Due to several customer requests we've changed our pricing for US customers.

The prices for our products in US$ will now be based on the pricing in € and the current conversion rate.

Last Updated ( Sunday, 15 February 2009 )