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Worley Labs

  • FPrime 3 - Previewer and renderer.
  • G2 - surfacing tool.
  • Sasquatch - hair renderer
  • Polk collection
  • Taft collection

Happy Digital

  • HD Instance - Volumetric instancing for fast rendering of thousands of objects.
  • HD PumpIt - adds volume to shapes.
  • HD EdgeFX - Adds edge smoothing and more at rendertime.
  • HD Caustics - Fast, fake caustics.

Trueart

Tons of plugins including:

  • EasySpline
  • EasySplit
  • GenerateEndomorphs
  • ImageForm
  • ImageSeqForm
  • MatteBySurface
  • MorphController
  • Pipe
  • PolygonsDivider
  • RenderSplitter
  • ShowWeights
  • TransitionShader
  • TrueBump
  • TrueHair
  • TrueHair Styler
  • TrueLoad
  • VirtualMirror
  • VMapManager
  • Waves
  • Wrinkle

DB&W

  • Infinimap - Use mammoth texture limited only by storage space.
  • exrTrader - OpenEXR import and export for LightWave.
  • db&w Tools V1.1 - currently a Material Blender/Splitter/Merger node, a render notifier, a simple colour correction node and a command statistics plugin for Layout

Virgin Pi

  • Info saver - A set of Lightwave Layout plugins for saving the results of a test render and the settings/stats.
  • LW3D Icon Config - Configures Windows to display specific icons for each type of file that LightWave uses.
  • Loop Expander

WTools3D

  • LWCAD - an indispensable set of modelling tools including snapping, live Booleans and more

Denis Pontonnier

  • Modeler tools inc. Treecage.
  • Layout tools, inc Poser and After Effects tools.
  • Cushion Camera
  • Renderman node collection
  • APS node

Volumedic

Awesome high-end volumetric imager

DStorm

Massive collection of plugins.

Pictrix

Many smart and fully featured Modeler plugins

PLG Plugins

  • Inverse Kinematics(IK) Plugin
  • Plugin Which Curves Bones Like A Spine
  • Plugin Which Fixes LWS File for plg_IK
  • Command Which Converts Key Frame Animation to plg_IK
  • UV Mapping (Unfolding, Unwrapping) Plugin - Peltmapper
  • UV Mapping (Unfolding, Unwrapping) Edit Plugin
  • UV Mapping Relaxation Plugin
  • UV Chart Direction Aligning Plugin
  • UV Charts Packing Plugin
  • UV Straightening Plugin
  • Plugin Which Unwelds along UV Border
  • Polygon Reduction Plugin
  • Boundary Point Selection Plugin

Short But Purple

  • LayersMC - A layer ui for Layout. Allows you to group items and change how they are displayed easily.
  • Image To Planes - Allows you to select a group of images and it will make a poly for each with options as to how they scale etc.
  • MTL importer/exporter - allows you to import the .mtl format which is used alongside the .obj format popular with Poser, Maya and other 3d packages.
  • Update Bone - Takes an updated skelegon skeleton, and applies the bone positions to layout bones.
  • Motion Capture - Add a UI for capturing the motion of the mouse.
  • Joint Setup - Allows you to quickly lock and hide items or limit which axes they rotate around.
  • SpringyThingy - A dynamic effect for wobbling an item around a target as the target moves.
  • Wheel - Motion plugin for simulation of wheels.
  • AutoIK - a quick way to set up an IK chain.
  • Integrated Lscript documents - The documents provided with Lightwave on lscript as well as the update notes all referenced.

And other plugins

Daniele Federico

  • DF_Sculpt_Tool - This modeling plug can modify object geometry by moving its points on their normals or using a bulging effect. Very useful for landscapes and organic deformation.
  • DF_VDeformer - This plug-in was created mainly for deforming a mesh by moving its points using some control handles. Very useful for creating morph and for combing hair.
  • Random Allocator - A plug-in for Lightwave allowing the user to place object randomly on a reference object.
  • DF_Weld - A plug-in for welding points in symmetry mode too, as native Lightwave weld doesn't. Both weld and weld average are provided.
  • DF_Multiple Pack - These plugs allow the user to make a multiple selection and save the transform objects, a sequence of morphs or replace them.
  • DF_Recover Symmetry - A plug-in to recover the symmetry in Lightwave.
  • DF_Hierarchical Control - A plug-in for nested objects management of a Lighwave scene.

Simon Coombs

  • Zip It

The Graphics Factory

  • IFW2 Textures - 249 Procedural Shaders and 191 Procedural Textures for LightWave (all operating systems).
  • IFW2 Nodal - 219 Procedural Texture/Shader Nodes for LightWave (all operating systems).


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