Archive for June, 2005

OT: Do you have a widescreen tft or dual screen setup?

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

If the answer if yes then you will need widescreen/dual-screen wallpapers right!? The below are a few sites with great wallpapers. Enjoy!
deviantArt
Big Desktop Images
Widescreen
I will follow this up shortly with a progress report.

A realistic lighting rig

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Andy Nicholas has written a really nice tutorial on how to create a lighting rig controlled by sliders.
Wow, i’m a lw geek and not even I thought of that nice idea, pal.
You can check it on 3d total .

Develop your own Lightwave plugin using Open Source Software

Sunday, June 19th, 2005

Carl Looper has put together an excellent tutorial on how to develop your own Lightwave plugin using of Dev-C++, an Open Source Software (OSS) development environment for C/C++.
The step by step tutorial will show you how to create a simple plugin. It won’t show you how to rewrite FPrime 2.0, but its a good start!
Check [...]

Automatically benchmark your PC with Lightwave

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

Chris Blanos, from blanos.com, has developed a tool that allows you to benchmark your PC using Lightwave.
Lightwave Autobench automatically detects the type of system you are running, performs the necessary LW renders using lwsn.exe and then submits the details to his excellent benchmarking website.
Apple users are going to have to wait a little longer, [...]

Real time extrude plugin

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

Castius did it again (hi scott ) !
This time he’s back with a killer modeler plugin which fakes bevelling in real time.
Check it here

Be prepared to feed the beast…

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

As you probably all know, we lost our database in the server hack. (yeah no backup )
good point : we still got some files … on our local HDs.
You still got some presetcentral v1 files too ?
Be prepared to feed the beast : we’ll start very very very (cmdt eric. lassard) soon a [...]

PHP script to extract .pst graphic

Monday, June 13th, 2005

Pheww… what an effort. I have just completed the first part of code to upload presets to the website.
About a year ago I ported our C code to extract the small thumbnail to PHP. We were having a number of issues relating to ImageMagick on the server and we figured a PHP would be [...]

Purpose of this blog

Friday, June 10th, 2005

Over the last two days I have seen a number of questions posted on forums relating to this blog. Although I have answered most of them, I figured it would be a good idea to clear a few things up.
1. You cannot upload presets or any other type of content to PresetCentral.com yet. We are [...]

New Lightwave preview plugin

Friday, June 10th, 2005

Wout, a cgtalk.com user, is shedding light on a new Lightwave preview plugin called ‘Poetry in Motion’. No word as to cost or availability, but its based on OpenGL and works with Lightwave 8.
http://www.cgtalk.com
Update: an alpha version should be available by the end of June 2005.

Lets reminisce!

Thursday, June 9th, 2005

Those were the good old days! Thanks to the WayBackMachine at the Internet Archive you can view the old version of the site. I don’t believe it has cached the presets, but the graphics and layout are still there.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030528103806/http://presetcentral.com/
If you are up for a laugh take a look at Google or Amazon. To think they [...]