PresetCentral.com

Ben, the other one, contacted me the other day about the difficulties he was having with his host and Lightwiki.com.
A few weeks later and PresetCentral is now the proud new host of Ben Vost’s site. Hopefully this will mean speedier and more reliable access for all.
PS: If there are any other LW sites experiencing [...]

Andrew Rowson, my dear friend who has been helping me put together the new version of Presetcentral.com, has put the finishing touches on the main site that is to host the PSPlant client.
For those of you not familiar with PSPlant should have a look at this page.
Andrew was keen for PSPlant to open source [...]

Newtek have made their Siggraph 2007 Lightwave videos available online. You will need flash to watch them sadly…
Lightwave Siggraph 2007 videos

Found this rather good tutorial on how to model and render a mobile phone.
http://cg-india.com/Tutorials/SE_T610_1.html

Seems Proton has been busy putting together some entertainment for us
http://www.iamproton.com/images/sq/LW9_Game.html

A video of it in action can be found here:
http://www.lwita.com/lwers/lcs/videos/DF_Sculpt_Tool.zip
Download the plugin here:
http://www.spinquad.com/forums/showthread.php?p=147709

Proton takes a closer look at the Connect Tool.
Spinquad forums (plenty of screengrabs)

An email ended up in my inbox advertising the fact that Tequila Scream had been updated to work with Lightwave 9.0. Its $50 for registered users and $190 new. Sounds like a good deal. Here are the features:
Split frame support.
Thumbnail browser.
Mini anim preview.
Pic viewer.
Remote Node Start.
No need to make ScreamerNet shortcuts.
Add several scenes at once.
Warnings:
Warnings [...]

TrueArt would like to present you little and free Layout Master plug-in NodeUpdater v1.0 that fixes problem with updating Node Editor window in LW9 while using animatable nodes. To read more please visit our website http://www.trueart.eu

With its powerful 3D capabilities WPF provides a leap forward in user experiences; but how do you create compelling 3D models and then make them available to your applications? In this Channel 9 video, Microsoft UK’s Richard Godfrey interviews the developers of Shaxam (www.shaxam.com) about their experiences and approach to building a Lightwave 3D to [...]