Lightwave Lscript plugins.

Welcome to my hastily assembled Plugin pages.

Legacy page only:
As you can probably tell this page is horribly out of date, but people still find useful thigns here, so I'm keeping it up. I don't currently have any plans to update it, but who knows what the future brings...

Right now I only have four available, but be assured that as I run into more problems, I'll come up with new fixes.

L[6] compatibility:
Yes, Lightwave [6] has been released, fortunately some of the plugins are now a lot less useful (yay!) Here's a rundown:
  • Edgedetect: EeeGads, it's slow. It works, but is too slow to be worthwhile. Good news is that you don't need it as much with [6] because you can now select polygons in the perspective viewport.
  • Multibevel: Works great. Just playing with it I found it also works great for making pipes if you use a disk as the point source for beveling.
  • Motilope: Doesn't work. It has a few compile errors. But, the good news is that it isn't really needed any more as you can cut and paste between motion channels and envelopes now.
  • Animated Boolean: Nope. There's a compile error ("Unresolved function: "file()") This sucks, but I don't have time to figure it out right now. If you do and you can figure it out, let me know! I'd love to work out something between modeler and layout via The Hub to do this on the fly, but don't hold your breath.

    LScript 1.4 NOTICE:
    As of March 10, 1999 LScript V1.4 has been released to the public. I've tested these scripts using this new version of LScript and have found problems:

  • Edgedetect: Works okay. It's just slower in this version (is that possible?)
  • Animated Boolean: This one still runs but the rotational values get out of wack, so don't use it with 1.4 if one of your objects rotates at all. I'm pretty sure what the problem is with this one, but as I'm busy right now, it might take me some time to fix it.
  • Motilope: It crashes Modeler. I suspect it has some issued with displaying the interface, or maybe it's just a fault with my system. This one should be easy to fix, but as stated above, I'm busy (aren't we all...).

    When (if) I fix them, I'll post them here.

    • MultiBevel
    My latest LScript that automates performing multiple boolean operations.

    Animated Boolean
    This is a pair of plugins, one for modeler, one for layout that will perform animated boolean operations.

    Edge Detect
    Makes it easier to find holes in polygon meshes in modeler.

    Motilope
    This goofy-named plugin will take a motion file, extract one of the tracks and save it as an envelope.  It  was made to apply Worley's Blink plugin to light brightness and morph envelopes, but probably has some other uses.

    These were written on/for Lightwave 5.6 Intel, Lscript Verion 1.3 and I don't guarantee that they work anywhere but on my computer (lazy of me, I know...)  Actual mileage may vary.

    Questions?  Comments?  Hatemail?  Email me at steven@balo.com.  I'll try to get back to you, but if I'm busy, I might not.

    steve