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LightWave3D 2025.0.4 Now available in your accounts + LW 2026 previews!

That was a really fun presentation this morning from LightWave Digital regarding LW 2026 news, functions and features! In case you missed the live stream of the 2 hour session discussing all the new goodies coming in LightWave3D 2026, plus fixes now found in the patch for LightWave3D 2025 (now at 2025.0.4) – then check it out here.You should also know that, as promised during the live stream, the patch for 2025 is now available in your accounts. Go and log in at www.lightwave3d.com and grab it. LightWave3D has really turned a corner and is picking up speed now. You mustRead More

LightWave3D 2025.0.2 is out now!

That was fast! Just released, very early Saturday morning on the 14th of June.  LightWave3D 2025.0.2 hit all registered LW 2025 users accounts.You can grab the update by logging in to your accounts at www.lightwave3d.com. For those of you interested in the change log details, you can check them out here. https://docs.lightwave3d.com/2025/2025-change-log.htmlThe LightWave Digital Development team seems to be moving at a very rapid pace. With LightWave 2025 hitting accounts on May 4th, and then 2025.0.1 arriving a little more than a week or so later, and now in the middle of June, we are already at another patch withRead More

The LFS Project

If you have heard me (Kat) refer to a “Project Genesis” over the past few years, you should know that it is on going and is a series of micro projects that over all, form a whole. It’s purpose dates back to our founding. To our foundation. It is now time for us at Liberty3d.com to take the next step in this series of micro projects. This one in particular being the last that Larry Shultz was directly aware of. The LFS Project is now activated as part of “Project Genesis” and today it will serve as a vehicle forRead More

Lightwave Scenefile conversion tool

As many of you already know, there is a bug in Lightwave 10.0 and Lightwave 10.1. When you are using a numbering system that has a comma for decimal point (like in The Netherlands), you cannot load scenefiles received from others. We’ve created a temporary solution for this.

Artist Chat : Abiogenesis with Richard Mans

Abiogenesis is about to make its worldwide premiere onto the international film circuit. We talk to the artist about this amazing short film project.

Sony Vegas Pro to Lightwave LW-Link updated

Vincent Mesman has updated his LW-Link script building the bridge between Sony Vegas Pro and Lightwave3D.

Iron Sky – Day 112

Ah yes, Mondays. Not that it makes ANY difference with respect to me or most of the other guys on the LW team, its just another day in a collectionRead More

Iron Sky – Day 109

Luke has the weekend off to attend a wedding of his brothers. I unfortunately missed my brothers wedding a couple of weeks ago. Sorry Dave, I wish I could haveRead More

LALWUG: Car Paint Node Demo

Dave Jerrard demonstrates the Car Paint Node in this six-part video from a LA LW User Group meeting. There are some good tips on working in the Node Editor in here as well, so it’s worth a look, even if you aren’t a gear head.

Iron Sky – Day 108

It’s now September 1st, and we have about 75 days to complete all our shots for the film. This week has been very busy with last minute previs touch ups,Read More

Adobe gives Apple another kick in the teeth.

Looks like Adobe is putting the thumb screws to Apple in a way. They have been offering some amazing deals on their production bundles as of late. If you haveRead More

New Nexus2 Expansion – Refx.net Releases DubStep/Electro Vol.1

Those crazy kats at ReFX.net are back at it again – this time another massive collection of extremely popular (but not pop!) dubstep and electro dance/trance/tech house sounds ready toRead More

Annosoft Automatic Lipsync Tool Now Supports LightWave

Annosoft has announced LW Morph Mixer export for their Desktop Lipsync Tool. Hit up their website for a save-restricted demo. Email them for a save-enabled demo.

Liberty3D HD Workstations Discussed with 3DTV.com

I recently did an interview with 3DTv.com about our new line of 3D workstations built by Shuttle Computer USA. You can read more about it here. http://www.3dtv.com/news-reviews/3d-workstation-anyone.php And here forRead More

Lightwave Plugin of the Week: c-plane

Cplane is an old and free plugin that gives LightWave users some of the functionality of a construction plane.

Iron Sky – Day 88

We are now joined by Mark Hennessy-Barrett who comes to us from the United Kingdom which is still smoldering from riots and rude yobs. Mark will be taking on aRead More

Lightwave Plugin of the Week: AE Link

Motion graphics artists who use Lightwave rejoice! You now have a quick, easy, reliable way to get your Lightwave scenes (motions, renders & placeholder layers) into After Effects. Not only that, but you can change the animation in LW and update the AE project with the click of a button.

Sony Vegas to Lightwave Script: LW-Link

Vincent Mesman posted a video demonstrating a script (Javascript) he wrote that creates a link between Sony Vegas and Lightwave. It looks like a nice workflow for adding 3D elements to a shot. Not only does it set the frame size and scene length (with handles), but it also transfers markers, background plates, audio, timecode and compression settings.

Siggraph Vancouver Day 1

While I am not in Vancouver to attend Siggraph this year, word is from our people on the floor that NewTek has skipped out on the show almost entirely. ThereRead More

Lightwave Plugin of the Week: DP Instance

This week’s plugin is DP Instance by Denis Pontonnier. Why? because I already had a video recorded for it. Instancing is a great way to fill your landscape with trees or hive with bees without having to fill your scene file (or RAM) with hundreds or thousands of objects.

Iron Sky – Day 80

Lee Stringer, Samuli and I are going through the show today (just broke for lunch and now we are back) doing a semi-final shot count along with clarifying a fewRead More

db&w Plugin Prices To Go Up

DB&W has announced that they will be raising their prices in September. If you were thinking about buying infiniMap, exrTrader, or shaderMeister, you might want to go ahead and buy them this month.

The announcement was made June 28 via Twitter and on their Facebook page.

SquidNet Network Render Manager

A lot of people are aware of my absolute pure hatred of ButterflyNetRender, but what are better alternatives? Well, I’m finding that RenderPal blows in its own way, and SmedgeRead More

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