Its 2012 and the local peeps are awesome. After attending Bergen Game Jam last weekend and the first international Join Game conference yesterday and today, one can not help but to be excited and inspired to get back into the game dev mode. I need to update some LScripts and I think some Unity/C# scripts should be released too. Sharing is caring.

If you so happen to be a Norwegian or a local Bergeneese, head over to spillmakerlauget.no and join in on the game dev fun. If you are in the 3D/CG realm, then also head over to cgbergen.org and join the mailing list.

Full steam ahead!

To any and all LightWave scripters out in the interwibble.

There is quite a few LScripts in circulation, some are very focused and task oriented while others are quite wide in scope. These tools can sometimes become a vital part of someone’s pipeline and if we as creators of LScripts become less invested in it, both in time and effort, people using it may end up suffering from unfixed bugs and scripts not working at all.

I would urge all developers of free LScripts to release them as uncompiled .ls sources, so that the scripts can be maintained and stay alive even after the creator of them has stopped caring or been hit by a truck.

Circlify is now free and uncompiled for all to poke at: http://mentalfish.com/uploads/lscripts/MFCirclify.zip

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11341761&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

Here is the first doodle of my series of space ship jam sessions. 37 minutes. I think it is a fighter of sorts.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14374354&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0

Would a space ship a day keep the doctor away? Considering doing a ship doodle each day, a one hour session of LightWave speed modeling.

Here is a doodle that took a day to finish:

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14350233&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0

This is a free LScript for LightWave to remove keyframes, so I call it Keyfragger. Peow peow! Its pretty much the evil twin of the Motion Baker script which has been renamed Keystove, just to stay in character.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14276932&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0

Download LScript

The Gnomon Workshop has released a training DVD by Aristomenis (Meni) Tsirbas on how to do good camera work in Layout. Based on the preview video it looks quite nice.

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/887/Camera-Fundamentals-for-Layout

Rob Powers is showing off LightWave 10, speedy OpenGL and Viewport Preview Render.

http://www.youtube.com/v/JhJauu_vB2A&hl=en_US&fs=1

NewTek has announced LightWave 10 at SIGGRAPH and I like what I see and hear. The message is clear, the aesthetics are in place. Good job NewTek!

Check out the nice brochure: http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/images/lw10/LightWave1010.pdf

Just in time for SIGGRAPH, we are happy to announce that Polygon Islands v2.0 is out and available for purchase. Alexandre Labedade ( aka Alexx ) have created a new version of this tool, and it has so many improvements it became a 2.0 release.

It is faster and got more features than the first version:

• Added taper and bend tool
• User definable deformation center (“pivot”)
• Preview of single islands when deforming
• Creation of morphs based on current deformation
• Creation of weight maps

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13562923&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

Available now: http://mentalfish.com/store/polygon-islands/