I must say its quite entertaining to see my name on a movie production like Iron Sky Thanks to Kelly, Alex and Luke for letting me play and helping out in getting some automagic LScripts going. Now, how to get some LightWave going for the next Star Trek movie… Mr J.J. sirr, need some VFX assistance or what about you Mr Lucas, any live action TV series about to be made?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4339735/

In any case, now I need to get on with my own space ship projects. Where do I go to order more time in a day?

Edit: It seems to be doing well at the Berlin film festival:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/feb/08/sci-fi-nazi-berlin-film-festival

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

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

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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/

I have been adding (leeching from Mike Green ) some LScript documentation to the LightWiki reference section, and adding some of my own LScripts to it.
http://www.lightwiki.com/Category:LScript

I was looking for some documentation on how to let the user specify a folder, and found it by chance in a page listing all the changes to the LW 9.5 SDK.
http://www.lightwiki.com/Getfolder
http://www.lightwiki.com/Ctlfoldername

I’ll keep adding info to the wiki so anyone else that come across the same issues I have can find some tips and tricks there.

Alexandre Labedade has an upcoming LScript plugin called Weighter 2 and what it does is to transfer vertex maps from one object to another, weight and colour maps, UVs and morphs. Similar to Gator in Softimage.

Here is a preview of its weight transfer aspect.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12838390&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

Now you can both import and export .chan files from LightWave, which means you can easily use NukeX as a 3D camera tracking solution for LightWave.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12584028&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

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The first commercial plugin from MentalFish is released and is now available in the store. Edit: you can now download the plugin for free here: http://mentalfish.com/uploads/lscripts/MFCirclify.zip

See how the Chees… I mean Circlify plugin works in this preview video:

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 a new LScript that toggles / brings the property panel inside of Layout to the front when you go from one item type to the next.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11392238&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

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