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HurleyWorks – Advanced Placement
It must be awesome stuff for LightWave3D week or something. Here is tool that has been in the works for a while. http://hurleyworks.com/advanced-placement/ Created by CG graphics wizard Steve Hurley; known as being one of the “Two Steves” (The other being Steve Worely) of amazing LightWave tools lore. Advanced Placement for LightWave makes use of a Newton Physics engine implementation, instancing, a complete undo/redo system and more. What it means essentially is the plugin lets you go nuts with creating scenes, set dressing them to your hearts content in a process that normallyRead More
SyFlex for LightWave3D 11.6.x
The wonderful people over at Syflex have updated their Syflex for LightWave3D plug-in to work with 11.6 and up. Not only that, but if you order now you can get it for 90% OFF!
Back online!
Well it wasn’t easy but in the end it was a simple fix to get us back online. First of all I want everyone to know that none, and I mean NONE of our customer information was compromised during this incident. Our system isn’t set up in a way where that information is exposed. Secondly, I would like to thank the Citizens of Liberty3d.com for their assistance in working this problem through and as a result we were down for less than 48 hours. We have corrected the problems thatRead More
Battle of The Game Engine Planets
Yup, it’s EDC week and the chaos has begun…. As many of you know game engine technology is constantly evolving and rapidly improving as hardware capabilities also advance. Not only that, it seems that many of the game engine companies have finally “figured it out” when it comes to pricing for licensing on a game that’s released. The people over at Unity3d.com always kind of had a really good handle on this. The folks over at Epic however took a while but they seem to have come around as well.Read More
March Mayhem! 25% off All L3D Brand Products!
Yup! It’s MarchMayhem here at Liberty3d.com and we are giving you the chance to get 25% off your purchases of Liberty3d.com brand products using the coupon code: MarchMayhem when you finish putting your purchase items in your cart to get the full discount. Take advantage of the saving to pick up the latest videos and those you have missed recently. Don’t forget to also check out our own tools including UberCam, TA-Tools and Quadpanels for LightWave3D. Sale lasts until March 31st!
Special Crossgrade Pricing for XSI Artists and Studios!
As you may know, Autodesk announced this past week that they are discontinuing Softimage XSI. Rumors about XSI being killed off started almost immediately after Autodesk bought XSI in 2007/08. Finally those rumors have amounted to a dark reality for studios and the last version of XSI to ship will be released on April 24th, 2014 with support stopping April 30th, 2016. While it may seem like there is “life” to XSI and several users are trying to figure out how to pry the software from Autodesk in an attemptRead More
LightWave3D 11.6.2 now in Open Beta
The wonderful people at the LightWave Group have released 11.6.2 to OpenBeta this evening. (Working late guys and gals?) Here is a note that just came across our desks from the Burbank Offices of the LightWave Group” The LightWave 3D Group has released a second Open Beta of the next update for LightWave, version 11.6.2. Please log into your account and view the list of Registered Products to download the latest version of the software. Click Here to log into your Account A list of the major changes is availableRead More
HDR LightStudio4 For LightWave3D
HDR LightStudio 4.0 is now available for LightWave3D. I was asked to beta test this months ago but couldn’t due to my schedule and I’m really wishing I had made the time. It’s freaking awesome! Check out these features: Main HDR Light Studio features for Lightwave3D users: Non-destructive, interactive HDRI map creation and editing Live Connection between HDR Light Studio and LightWave3D LightPaint – Point and click light positioning and selection in views (including VPR) Supports Lightwave Renderer and Octane Render Highly controllable procedural light sources Library of HDR lights,Read More
Server glitch – please try your downloads again!
Well we broke the site with the Valentines Day sale… Sorry! If you had downloads going you may have to download them again or resume their downloads (you were using a download manager right?). The site seems to be back up and running now. We are hoping that it was very momentary (we lost contact on our end for about 25 minutes) and that it won’t happen again while we continue the sale. We are sorry for any inconvenience. We are looking into bigger, more awesomer server packages right now.Read More
Liberty3D Welcomes Legendary Character Animator, Tom Roth.
We have a new Citizen and a new video product for you. We are proud to welcome veteran character animator, Tom Roth. Tom has over 40 years of experience in the animation industry and his videos teach the essential, fundamental principles of Character Animation.
35% off all Kat Videos! Limited Time Only!
Kelly “Kat” Myers videos here on Liberty3d.com are now 35% off when you use this coupon: KittyKoupon This sale ends on Monday, January 27th, 2014 so act now and grab these tutorials at this amazing discount while you can! Practical Production Techniques Vol 26 – Damage Volume II[KAT]Kat is back with another installment in the Practical Production Techniques series with a sequel to Volume 25 "Damage", now in Volume 26, Damage Volume II, this video picks up and continues on with several concepts covered in theRead More
TFD Advanced Concepts and Projects: Atmospherics
Kat is back with another TFD Advanced Concepts and Projects Video! This time he discusses various atmospheric lighting effects that you can do using TFD for LightWave to produce things like helicopter down draft from its blades, nightclub effects such as discoballs and ultra realistic looking lasers! (Kats love lasers!) One of the hardest effects in LightWave to produce accurately. This video expands on concepts covered in Kat’s previous TFD for LightWave Videos available here on Liberty3d.com, but users who have limited experience with TFD who are looking to produceRead More
3rd Powers Japan provides amazing toolset for LightWave Artists.
Words cannot really describe how impressive these tools are. Real-Time Interactive, stupidly useful is about as close as we can come right now. Here is what we are talking about. Pricing for the bundle isn’t too bad considering what these tools do (especially the cage deformer!) but they do have them as individually priced tools if you can’t swallow $299.00 USD for a bundle right now. Check out 3rdpowers.com for more information. We are very much impressed and noticed their “about us” statement. Very interesting indeed. Hint Hint LWG.
Christmas & New Years sale now on!
It’s time for our year end Christmas and New Years sale! Starting December 20th, 2013 and running until January 5th, 2014 – you can get 25% off your purchases of Liberty3d.com Brand Training and Tools. It’s really easy. Use this coupon code when you check out: L3DXMAS2013 We have already discounted The LightWave3D Group products to reflect the sale pricing that the LightWave3D group is offering for upgrades and new seats of LightWave3D, leaving you free to use the coupon on other purchase from now until January 5th, 2013. To sweetenRead More
A Liberty3D.com End of Year message!
Hello Liberty3D/LightWave3D community, Please allow me to take a moment to thank all of our supporters and customers of Liberty3d.com for making 2013 our best year ever. Next, I want to say thank you to all of our Citizens here at Liberty3d.com and extend a meowy christmas to on everyones behalf to the LightWave3D community. Last year went out as a rough time for us emotionally with the loss of Larry “SplineGod” Shultz in November of 2012. While we mourn Larry to this day, we honor him by continuing onRead More
Only 2 more days left!
Our November sale is actually still going on. If you haven’t taken this opportunity to get 25% off on your training and tools purchases (for L3D products only) you have just shy of 48 hours to do it! You can get 25% off your purchases by using the coupon code: LWGNOVEMBER Also, we are running a special while the LightWave Group has discounted new seats of LightWave3D and upgrades of LightWave3D. If you purchase your upgrade or new seat from us, you will receive a special 35% off coupon forRead More
Big in Japan! Live Stream from LightWave Creators Conference!
Are you tuning in today? You better! http://www.ustream.tv/channel/LightWave3DTV2 Rob Powers and Lino Grandi will be there doing some kind of song and dance and maybe we will see some new spiffy examples of LightWave being used by the awesome artists and studios in Japan. Maybe we will also catch some new Japanese LW technology in development? Who knows!? Let’s find out. The show starts at 8PM Pacific Standard Time.
November LightWave Newsletter (Exclusive Deals from Liberty3d.com)
For those of you subscribed to the LightWave3D newsletter, you may have noticed the announcement concerning Liberty3d.com. If you haven’t then you need to read more here about a special deal we have going.
The Comprehensive Guide to IKBooster by Ryan Roye
The Comprehensive Guide to IKBooster (Parts 1 and 2)
IKBooster has baffled and bewildered Lightwave users for over a decade. Despite the incredible value it adds to Lightwave’s animation toolset, it is a fact that IKBooster has remained as a tool of obscurity due to lacking documentation and an unusual and unorthodox (but extremely efficient) interface.
Brand New IKBoost Manual Now Online!
Ryan Roye has taken it upon himself to create the first online set of documents covering the mysterious but stupidly powerful and awesome Character Animation Tool for LightWave3D (which ships with the product); IKBoost. As a fellow student of Larry “SplineGod” Shultz who was the world expert on IKBoost, Ryan has done an amazing job on this manual. Everyone should read it and book mark it right now. You can find the manual here.