Dear finest Customers & Friends,

LightWave 3D 2020 has just been released and our plugins are ready for it.

Plugin Updates for LightWave 3D 2020

Due to breaking changes in the SDK for LightWave 3D, we will not be able to provide the same binary plugins files for LightWave 3D 2020. We needed to adapt our SDK wrapper and also tweaked the source code of all plugins.

This is why the updates to our LightWave 3D 2020 series of plugins will require a paid update as well as a new license file.

We have just released qckPck 2019 featuring qckHud, a paid update for qckHuD 2018. The qckPck menu itself got one extra menu to change the layout for viewports. The biggest addition is qckHuD, a tool to design and manage custom overlays for the Layout viewports.

qckPck 2019 is available for 35€, an upgrade for 10€ is available for existing users.

One year ago we decided to start an experiment and move the future development over to Patreon.

Now, 12 months later, we have expanded the db&w Tools beyond what we have expected. The open style of development is extremely beneficial to us and many of our patrons appreciate it as well.

To celebrate, we'll make the Development Live Stream for November 2019 public. Anyone can join in and watch as we show the latest developments for patrons.

We will also raffle a free license of a db&w plugin of choice amongst the viewers of the live stream, as well as a free license to all patrons.

Make sure to tune in this Friday, the 22th of November, at 20:00 CET / 7pm GMT / 2pm EST / 11am PST.

To increase your chances of winning a free plugin, become a patron now:

As a patron, you will of course get a personalised copy of the db&w Tools as well and influence as well as support future development.

 Half a year ago, in November 2018, we decided to move the development of the db&w Tools to Patreon.

Not only has it been a success in terms of user interaction, but we're thoroughly enjoying it as well.

Here is a video showing some of the highlights:

If you would like to support and participate in the development of the db&w Tools and get your own personalised copy of the db&w Tools, please support us on Patreon.

The team of db&w is proud to again have helped a customer with db&w software to win an Emmy® Award.

This time for an outstanding original interactive program.

Congratulations to our friends from JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory). We are happy that exrTrader Pro and infiniMap Pro have been used to make these outstanding pictures.

For those who want to see more, please have a look at: InSight Mars Landing. InSight Mars stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport mission to Mars.

Below is a section of the B-roll that includes one of the animations using both infiniMap Pro for the Mars textures as well as exrTrader Pro to render in layers.

Video file for media and public use. NASA's next mission to Mars, Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, on InSight, will be the first interplanetary launch from the West Coast. InSight's launch period opens May 5, 2018, and extends through June 8. InSight will launch into space from the U.S. Air Force's Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

InSight will use a suite of instruments to study the deep interior of the Red Planet. Its scientific goals are to learn how all rocky planets, including Earth and its Moon, first formed. InSight's instruments include a seismometer to detect marsquakes for the first time, and a heat flow probe that will embed itself as deep as 15 feet (4.6 meters) below the surface of Mars.

qckPck has just been updated to version 2018.0.1

While it is still compatible to LightWave 3D 2018, it also include a feature limited to LightWave 3D 2019 and leverages the new pop-up menus shipped with LightWave 3D 2019.

qckPck 2018 is available for LightWave 3D 2018.0.6 and higher on Windows or macOS for 25€ (excl. VAT).