Programs and Plug-Ins

Some older graphics utilities and plug-ins for Lightwave 3D, spanning 1996 through 2002.

Here you'll find a number of my previously available programs and Lightwave 3D plug-ins. These are generally rather old, and none have been updated since 2002. Lightwave 3D version numbers are the last version the plug-in was tested on, and it is not known if it will work with newer versions.

While these utilities are no longer maintained, you can feel free to contact me for the source if you are interested in updating them or rebuilding them for your platform or application.

Source

If you are a developer, you can find the complete source for most of these on GitHub, as well as some other utilities that aren't otherwise publicly available. Note that this code is rather old, and uses older C++ mechanisms that have been obsoleted or otherwise replaced in newer compilers. They will likely require some massaging to build. The last time any of these were built was for Lightwave 7.5.

Nullify

Replaces the selected objects with nulls, optionally removing their bones and disabling the shadow options.

for Lightwave 3D 6.0 - 6.5 Layout
Download - 32 bit Windows (107 KB)

Spaceball

Spaceball Input Device Driver for Lightwave 3D Layout.

for Lightwave 7.5 Layout
Download - 32 bit Window (97 KB)

SelectKit

Point and polygon selection tools for Lightwave 3D Modeler.

for Lightwave 7.0 - 7.5 Modeler
Download - 32 bit Windows (72 KB)

Select-O-Matic

Selection and grouping tools for Lightwave 3D.

Lightwave 7.5 Layout
Download - 32 bit Windows (156 KB)

KeyStrainer

Motion freezing and keyframe reduction tool.

Lightwave 6.5 - 7.5 Layout
Download - 32 bit Windows (214 KB)
Download - Source (17.6 MB)

PanelTools

Enhancements to ease LWPanels programming for developers.

Lightwave 7.5 Layout
Download - 32 bit Windows (57 KB)

ReplaceObjects

Object replacement tools for Lightwave 3D.

Lightwave 6.0 - 7.5 Layout
Download - 32 bit Windows (208 KB)

MIDIChannel

Drive animation channels with information from MIDI files.

Lightwave 6.0 - 7.5 Layout
Download - 32 bit Windows (118 KB)

FrameJumper

Frame marking and management tools for Lightwave 3D.

Lightwave 6.0 - 7.5 Layout
Download - 32 bit Windows (125 KB)

ContentDirector

Content Directory Selector for Lightwave 6.0 or greater.

Lightwave 6.0 - 7.5 Layout
Download - 32 bit Windows (342 KB)

GridZoom

Some grid size and veiwport zooming tools for Lightwave 6.0 or greater.

Lightwave 6.0 - 7.5 Layout
Downloa d - 32 bit Windows (38 KB)

Mot-ify

A replacement Delete Key panel for Lightwave 3D. It includes more advanced features, including clearing motions, deleting ranges of keys and deleting keys within a threshold.

Lightwave 6.0 - 7.5 Layout
Downloa d - 32 bit Windows (151 KB)

SaveObjects

Provides improved Save Object functionality, including saving arbitrary selections of objects, incrementing revision numbers, making backups, creating duplicates, and optionally saving over read-only objects.

Lightwave 6.0 - 6.5 Layout
Download - 32 bit Windows (170 KB)

QuickParent

Provides alternate ways to parent items, such as Chain Parent and Multi-Parent.

Lightwave 6.0 - 7.5 Layout
Download - 32 bit Windows (104 KB)

AssignBoneVMaps

Assigns weight maps to the selected bones, and other useful bone tools.

Lightwave 6.0 - 7.5 Layout
Download - 32 bit Windows ( 110 KB)

EditCycle

Provides an alternate way to change item edit modes in Layout.

Lightwave 6.0 - 7.5 Layout
Download - 32 bit Windows ( 50 KB)

UberNull

Parents all previously unparented items to a new null object.