Gear Junkie
Adobe announced its replacement for Photoshop LE and for all practical purposes, PhotoDeluxe, and demonstrated Photoshop Elements, a $99 gee-whiz application that should give even the most timid of digital photographers heart palpitations. Photoshop Elements lacks CMYK color space and some of the...
Type : Design Software
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
ScatterLight Lenses
We spend hundreds and thousands of dollars to acquire the sharpest lenses possible. But photographic tradition holds that "romantic" effects are best made with lenses that are less than sharp. Old timer "romantic" soft-focus tricks include nylon stockings stretched across the lens or a crumpl...
Type : Design Software
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
QuadSew v2.5
QuadSew is a great little plugin for Modeler that "sews" pairs of quads together, kind of like Skin does, except that it uses quads instead of triangles to do the sewing and it deletes the original two quads. Plus, unlike Skin, QuadSew knows which way around the ski...
Type : Design Software
Level : All levels
Added : Jul 29, 2004
HD Random
HD Random is a little plugin for Modeler that lets you move polygons around randomly, without their points going all mishy mashy. You can see here I made a many-segmented box and beveled the segments a little. Then I selected the top polys and applied a little HD Random. Just ...
Type : Design Software
Level : All levels
Added : Jul 29, 2004
SplineLength
SplineLength is a simple Modeler plugin that computes the total length of any splines you have selected. It properly accounts for ends being visible / invisible. It's not quite exact, since I don't know the exact formula for LightWave splines, but it's close. Downlo...
Type : Design Software
Level : All levels
Added : Jul 29, 2004
Furrify v1.0
You're going to like this one. This Image Filter script adds 3D fuzz to your surfaces as a post-process. Why? Well, it's handy for adding a quick bit of fuzz to still images. Read my cheap grass tutorial to see how it helps!...
Type : Design Software
Level : All levels
Added : Jul 29, 2004
GammaRight
The image on the left is the TV Guy demo as LightWave5.6 renders it. The image on the right is gamma corrected using GammaRight. Notice how the details in the shading are brought out, and how the lighting looks less washed out. To see how to use it, read my GammaRig
Type : Design Software
Level : All levels
Added : Jul 29, 2004
GroundFog
Yay ground fog! I know LW already has a ground fog plugin, but I don't like it. This one has a more natural falloff (as opposed to LW's linear falloff) and it is capable of much more variety as far as the look of the falloff. And, like LW's ground fog, it's a full Volume
Type : Design Software
Level : All levels
Added : Jul 29, 2004
Glass thickener v2 0
Here's a glass bottle with a big chip taken out of it. The image on the left was created using the techniques described in my Refractive Glass tip. It's nice, but there's still something not quite right about it. The glass is uniformly transparent no matter
Type : Design Software
Level : All levels
Added : Jul 29, 2004
Velvet shader
Velvet3 is a really sweet velvet shader. It works with raytraced shadows, shadow-mapped shadows, and even area lights. You can adjust the specular highlight color, too! Download velvet6_intel.zip for LightWave 6.5 Intel Download v...
Type : Design Software
Level : All levels
Added : Jul 29, 2004
