NewTek Lightwave 3D

• LightWave 3D is an all-in-one photo-realistic animation system.
• Used to produce Babylon 5, etc.
• NewTek home page: http://www.newtek.com/
• See also NewTek's Video Toaster Flyer.
• Compare with AutoDesk's 3D Studio Max.
• LightWave 3D has a plug-in interface.
  • Plug-in architecture for animation, textures and image processing.
  • Plug-in architecture for object, image and animation import/export.
  • Found a plug-in that does lightning effects!
  • LightWave 3D's new plug-in architecture is supported by a growing number of independent developers. This allows you to customize LightWave with additional features such as gravity, particle systems, image processors and more surface materials.
  • LightWave's flexibility is enhanced through the addition of plug-ins from Elastic Reality and Syndesis Corp. Elastic Reality's HIIP code allows LightWave to import and export multiple image formats. Syndesis' Interchange plug-in provides loaders and savers for Wavefront (tm), DXF, and 3D Studio (tm) objects.
  • Anyone interested should send a message to lwplugin-l@netcom.com with "subscribe" and your email address in the body. The developer docs can be obtained via anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.netcom.com://pub/lw/lwsdk, or browse the Lightwave3D Software Development Kit at ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/lw/lwsdk/Main.html.
  • Lightwave 3d plug-ins page: http://www.teleport.com/~memex/lwpipage.htm
  • BML scripting language plug-in
    • BML is a C-like scripting language, with complete access to the functions and structures of the Lightwave 3D modeler, as well as good support for math. Nothing fancy, though.
    • BML Plug-in information and manual: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bh/bhood/LightWave/plugins/BML/