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What's
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12/9/03 -- TransMotion update: added Custom Motion Exporter, cws2LWcam, and cornerpin2shake. Updated TransMotion3D, TransMotionENV, mot2crv, keep_every_nth, kill_every_nth and Custom Motion Importer. 6/6/03 -- LightWave 7.5c is available and the good news is that the problems caused by 7.5b have been repaired! Support for the .rz2 format (RealViz MatchMover 2D) has been added to TransMotion3D. 1/9/03 - Over the Christmas holidays we finished helping Chris Meyer and his team with bringing LightWave camera motion data into After Effects. In Creating Motion Graphics for After Effects Volume 2: Advanced Techniques Trish and Chris Meyer demonstrate techniques for translating camera moves from LightWave using the TransMotion Utilities Pack, plus techniques for integrating LightWave and several other 3D programs (Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Electric Image, and others) with After Effects. And much more... Available Spring 2003
Pre-order info from Amazon.com >Cybermotion website for books, video, & articles Support added for tracker files from Digital Fusion 4 and Aura 2.5
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A TransMotion Utilities (TMU) testimonial from the trenches: "I don't know if I mentioned this, but TMU completely saved my bacon. I have
a team of four matchmovers doing over 200 shots and we'd never get it done
on time without your handy little script. Every time I prep a shot for one
of the matchmovers, it gets used to bring in the 2D track from DFusion. The
quality of our matchmoves is so much better now, that we're going back and
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12/2/02 - Updates to the TransMotion Utilities Pack include three new LScripts -- World2Screen outputs LightWave motions in screen-coordinate (pixel) form to After Effects, Commotion, and Illusion (now called Particle Illusion) formats. Other formats are available via transMotion3D. CornerPin is a variation of World2Screen which allows up to four trackers in LightWave (typically nulls) to be exported as After Effects keyframes. It is intended to be used with the Corner Pin effect in After Effects, but can be used anytime pixel coordinates of up to four items in LightWave need to be exported as AE keyframes. CustomMotionImporter allows you to design your own Motion Importer by specifying fields and field separators (delimiters). Also, the Illusion format has been added to TransMotion3D.
Multi-Camera Batch Render (MCBR), an easy-to-use solution for switched-camera rendering in LightWave 6.5b and 7.x. fogger.p, a Layout plugin that offers the capability to save and load fog and backdrop gradient parameters in LightWave. LightExtracter, a Generic LScript which will strip the lights and targets from a scene file and write them to a new scene file so that you can "Load from Scene" just the lights and their targets. If you need the items that the lights are parented to as well, an optional mode is provided that includes ALL objects in the scene, but they are replaced with nulls. This way any hierarchy is preserved with elements that do not render. dxf2curve, a Modeler LScript that reads dxf files and creates curves or two-point polygon chains. Ever wanted to model on a plane other than x-z? Try cplane. Use After Effects or Combustion? You're probably comfortable with the shortcut keys "Home" and "End" to go to the Beginning and End of the timeline. You can set up Layout to act the same way. Download these very simple scripts, load them as plugins, then map home.ls to the "Home" key and end.ls to the "End" key and you're there. Limited Region Utilities including RenderStrips Legacy LScripts supporting older versions of LightWave.
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mocotran PC/Mac LW 7.x $19.95
mocotran
is a Modeler plugin for LightWave 7.x Check out
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TransMotion Utilities Pack $24.95 The TransMotion Utilities Pack consists of eight Layout plugins and two Modeler plugins. Layout plugins: TransMotion3D enables you to share keyframes or motion tracker data between LightWave and various compositing applications, or between the compositing applications themselves. Supported (in varying degrees) are: After Effects, Commotion, Discreet (Combustion), Shake, Aura and Digital Fusion. Support has also been added for the Illusion particle effects program. Single-channel (Envelope) data may be shared between LightWave, After Effects, and spreadsheet programs by using TransMotionENV. LWcam2AE exports LightWave camera motion to Notepad for immediate copy/paste into After Effects. LWcam2cws creates a Combustion workspace file containing the motion and FOV of the chosen LightWave camera. LW2Shake creates a Shake script to automatically load (and optionally flip) .tga files created by Adrian's Nifty Buffer Saver plugin. Up to 11 buffers can be handled.
Modeler plugins: Crv2Mot7 allows creation of open or closed motion paths from points or curves in Modeler, and Mot2Crv allows the creation of curves in Modeler from existing motion paths.
Please note that registering this suite of plugins has the effect of supporting the development of ALL plugins by this author, including the Free plugins. More information, including download and tutorials
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TransMotion Utilities Pack PC/Mac LW 6.5 / 7.x $24.95
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Free Image Filter Plugins PC only
Plugins for LightWave 6.x - 7.x Unmult.p - Creates an alpha channel based on the luminance of the R, G, and B channels. Similar to John Knoll's Unmult plugin for After Effects, but implemented as a LightWave Image Filter. Post_Alpha2.p - Works like Unmult.p, except it preserves the existing alpha channel created by geometry. Good for flares and glows, this plugin is like LW 7.5's Flare2Alpha, but renders considerably faster. (Intel platform only) More information and download here.
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Free Limited Region Utilities PC/Mac
Limited Region HUD is a Custom Object LScript which provides an interactive display of Limited Region render parameters. It returns to the user the functionality missing since LightWave version 6. Once a Camera is set up, add this Custom Object to a null in the scene and position it for maximum visibility in the Camera viewport. The display will then dynamically track adjustments made to the Limited Region. For LightWave 7.x only. 5/27/02 - Updated to allow position and color adjustments of text display. 8/22/02 - Updated; script's parameters now saved with scene file. RenderStrips will divide your render into up to 100 horizontal or vertical segments and write out a scene file for each segment, with matching RGB saver filenames activated. Lim-reg_load-save allows the user to load and save limited region settings. |
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Free Legacy LScripts PC/Mac Here are some LScripts for versions of LightWave prior to 7.0: Curve-to-Motion1 - Creates a motion file from points in Modeler. Com-to-Motion1 - Creates a motion file from Commotion or After Effects tracker files. Quick Bevel - Fast one-key Bevel without requesters. Multi-Light Helper - Copies parameters from one light to many. Spline-to-Guide - Creates Sasquatch guides (2-point poly chains) from splines. Envelope Converter - converts LW 5.6 envelope files to LW 6.x format. Go to the Legacy LScripts page.
1 - For LW 7.x, this functionality is included within the TransMotion Utilities Pack. |
Custom Scripts Need a custom script for LightWave, Max, or Viz? Send me your requirements and I'll be happy to send you a quote. Reasonable rates.
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World2Screen
outputs
LightWave motions in screen-coordinate (pixel) form to After Effects,
Commotion, and Illusion (now called Particle Illusion) formats.
Other formats are available via transMotion3D.
