Lightwave2018 Plugins List (Tested)

**Greenlaw** · 01-08-2018, 11:43 AM

It works for me too, but so far ran only simple test sims. No crash when clicking tabs anyway.

What's your platform/specs?

Maybe a conflict with another plugin?

**Revanto** · 01-08-2018, 07:43 PM

I did a very cursory test of the 3rd Powers plugins I have and they seem to work. Mind you, I just barely skimmed the surface and it was the first time I had used the plugins so there still might be something that might come up. However, I have a feeling that the guys at 3rd Powers would be up to date with their integration with Lightwave so if there were any future issues with their plugins in LW2018, I'm pretty sure they'd be dealt with quickly.

Cheers,
Revanto

**alexs3d** · 01-09-2018, 12:20 AM

Originally Posted by Markc

It seems to work for me, not tried any sims, but can click around the tabs (v1416).

hi, i uses v1427, latest version, additional plugin i have installed are the 3rpowers tools and UP.

thx

**adk** · 01-09-2018, 12:36 AM

Originally Posted by wingzeta

SunSky and DP SunSky are different. DP SunSky lets you set the city, date and time for your sky, as well as a few other options. It is very nice. I hope it will work in 2018. Still have to try it.

Similar / same deal with SunSky if you simply attach it to your scene light and add a Sun Spot motion modifier.
Not 100% sure if that covers all the DP SunSky functionality tho ?

**wingzeta** · 01-09-2018, 01:04 AM

Originally Posted by adk

Similar / same deal with SunSky if you simply attach it to your scene light and add a Sun Spot motion modifier.
Not 100% sure if that covers all the DP SunSky functionality tho ?

Good to know. I'll give it a try.

**omichon** · 01-09-2018, 01:13 AM

For those who wouldn't have noticed yet, 3rd Powers Paint Weights has been updated to v1.03 a couple of days ago to fix a hang/crash with 2018.

**Waves of light** · 01-09-2018, 04:11 AM

Subscribed for reference. Nice idea guys and girls.

**Greenlaw** · 01-09-2018, 08:29 AM

Working with 3D Coat. The new LightWave 2018 .lwo format seems to be incompatible with 3DC, so objects need to be exported to LWO2 first. (I thought 3DC might still open the mesh but I guess the format is too different.)

I haven't tried bringing objects back into LightWave 2018 from 3DC yet. For now I'm going to assume that the applink isn't going to work, and even 3DC's .lwo export may not be optimal for 2018.

I don't think I'll bother testing applink, but will report anything I learn about regular exchanges.

**Waves of light** · 01-09-2018, 08:43 AM

I'm using OD CopyandPaste to go from LW to 3DC. Once in 3DC, I'm exporting the mesh (using OD paste to external) and then exporting the maps using the metalness preset.

**Greenlaw** · 01-09-2018, 09:40 AM

Thanks! I didn't know about that.

**Waves of light** · 01-09-2018, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by Greenlaw

Thanks! I didn't know about that.

You're more than welcome.

**Asticles** · 01-09-2018, 12:24 PM

AS Math Node is not working for me, I'm trying to follow Probiner's tutorial...

**Greenlaw** · 01-13-2018, 02:18 PM

Can somebody check Deep Rising in LightWave 2018.0.1 for me?

I can add the plugins in 2018 but not in 2018.0.1. Other plugins seem to add fine and I want to be sure I'm not missing a step somewhere.