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We have now expanded this back to school deal to include Jeremy Hughes collection of Fusion Training Videos! Use this Coupon code at the checkout point of our store -> LibertyBTSSALE <-and get 35% off!

You will not only get 35% off his videos, but Jeremy has asked to have the money made from the sales of these titles donated to Larry Shultz, who as we all know is having serious medical issues. While the outpouring of community support has been amazing, Larry still faces very difficult times ahead. So if you have been thinking about Larry and want to help out, this is your chance to get some great training for Fusion and actually make a REAL difference as the money will actually go to Larry. To ensure this, Larry has access to the sales data himself, as does every other citizen here at Liberty3d.com. No slight of hand, no tricks. The money will go to him to help pay for his treatments.

Every Citizen here at Liberty3d.com is doing whatever they can to help out and this is an excellent example of how wonderful the LightWave 3D community really is. The REAL LightWave community has always stuck together in good times and bad.

Remember, you will also get 35% off all of Kat’s video training and PFX Kits as well. This is a limited time offer for the first 100 customers who use this coupon code in the store check out – LibertyBTSSALE

There have already been several people who have taken advantage of this special so don’t get left out. The latest video, “Practical Production Techniques: Vol. One” is already huge hit with customers and its only been out for a week. If you haven’t picked up this video I highly recommend it. Find out more in the store section. And don’t forget that coupon code. LibertyBTSSALE

For those of you who have recently bought a video from Kat at full price, don’t stress out! I will be offering you a deal exclusively to you when I release the next video.

Unlike the CG world, reality dictates that objects are affected by rust, dust and decay. Being able to recreate this level of detail in your CG work will make your creations much more believable. Kevin Phillips (aka Kevman3D) shows you how to use the free ee_GritNode shader in LightWave to create more believable rust and decay to your surfaces.


Click on the image to watch the FREE video.

Hi Everyone, here is my latest video for you guys to enjoy!

Practical Production Techniques Vol. One
In Kelly "Kat" Myers latest video, Practical Production Techniques Volume One, you will find several secrets and newly evolved technologies being applied in LightWave3D. From DP Custom Light Uses to additional render passes described in detail for practical uses just as they are deployed on VFX jobs for TV and film productions this video expands on concepts from Kat's other videos but now puts them into directly applicable techniques that can be used just about anywhere. Using real-world content (included in this video) learn not only how to apply these techniques in LightWave3D but also how to manipulate the render results for maximum flexibility in compositing. 80% of this video deals with LightWave Layout and Modeler, while the remaining 20% jumps over to Eyeon's Fusion compositing system, bringing everything together. Learn to avoid traps, while exploiting functions not commonly used in LightWave 9.6 such as the refraction buffer on export through exrTrader or LightWave's native rendering buffer saver system. Learn to break out the shot using Kat's system and see how changes to refractive surfaces play with DP Light Kit Additional lights like the DP Dome light, Custom Light, and Infinite Light. You get everything needed to follow along, models, scenes, rendered images and the Fusion composite flow! This is an incredible value and more in this series are being produced. Don't let the product image fool you, it really is largely a LightWave based tutorial!
Price: $21.00

Special thanks to Mike Green for keeping an eye out on this one.
Several months ago, I actually emailed the developer and asked if he was going to be able to update Bevel++ to LightWave 64bit editions. Sadly he said that it wasn’t possible, due to the code base being done using some special intel code something or other, which only worked in 32bit.

HOWEVER! It seems now its gone through a major update and now it is available in 64bit with some additional enhancements. Very awesome and super inexpensive for what it does. I think this would be an great companion plug-in for QuadPanels. Maximum nurnification anyone?

Check out the update here, pricing is $40.00USD unless you have the previous 32bit version which would make the upgrade a bit cheaper (like FREE!)

http://www.softgeometry.jp/lightwave…ave3d/bevelpp/

Continuing on with the concepts and techniques from Advanced Space Scene Creation Vol. 1, Kelly “Kat” Myers takes you to another level showing you how to mix LightWave volumetrics and objects to create even more fantastical space scenes.
This video includes the assets so you to immediately open it up, drop in your own space ship and go. You can follow along with the tutorial video (which is over 2 hours in length) and make your own scene easily, building on these techniques which are widely used in space scenes as shown on TV and in Film.
This video tutorial compliments Advanced Space Scene Creation Vol. 1 and makes a great addition to that volume, but can be used and understood without having it in your collection. At this low price of just $17.99USD, Advanced Space Scene Creation Vol. 2 is a great deal. More videos in this series are planned, advancing each time in complexity and techniques and will be made available exclusively through Liberty3d.com

$17.99USD Instant Download

GarageFarm.net is now open for business. This new render farm service company has some interesting render pricing plans (including in some cases, free!) and is powered through 100% green electricity.

Here are some additional details about GarageFarm.net who are extremely LightWave friendly I might add.

There are three priorities, High, Medium and Low, most of the farms are not
busy all the time, so lower priority might be good for saving money when you
have loads to render and/or the deadline is not tomorrow morning. High
priority customers will be served ‘first in first out’, new job with higher
priority might pause lower priority one and medium and low priority jobs
will mix – but still medium priority will take over all low priority jobs.

The pricing is:
$0.02 Low Priority
$0.04 Medium Priority
$0.08 High Priority

On top of it anyone can test couple of frames for free and full animation in
1/4 of resolution after paying $1 deposit!

Why use us?
1. We are dirt cheap!

1. It is family business.

2. We run on 100% Green Electricity.

3. When computers are not rendering 3D animations they helping University of
Washington to solve one of the longest standing problems in molecular
biology: the “protein folding” problem, this is technology that could wipe
out some diseases!

4. Every customer is getting personal support, we help in trouble shooting,
we have 35Ghz machine here to help radiosity baking.

5. There is not deceiving advertising, there are 3 simple price plans,
everyone can get rendering for $0.02, there is no need to make $24,000
deposit to get maximum discount – what is common in other places.

5. All prices are in dollars, not euro, check us for free and compare to
others!

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QuadPanels has yet another update.

• UI redesign: The user interface has been completely redesigned, it is smaller and more logically navigated.
• Random numbers: QuadPanels has implemented a seeded random number generator. This means you can now repeat details with the new Seed controls. Random seed operates as normal. Seed per Panel uses the same random sequence for each quad you select, so you could cover a mesh with the same collection of details. Seed per Selection starts with the same seed for each selection, but randomises per panel, so if you select a block of n panels and detail them, you can apply the same details spread across all those panels to a different block of n.
• New Layer: You can now generate your details on a new layer instead of embedding them in the original geometry

Liberty3D and Meshweaver are offering all QuadPanels owners a permanent deal on the purchase of the Ultimate Nurnie Collection. Registered owners should contact James Willmott at jamesw (at) symmetrix3d (dot) com for their special offer code. Then go to http://www.meshweaver.com/store.htm and click on the link at the top that says “QUADPANEL PLUGIN OWNERS CLICK HERE FOR YOUR SPECIAL DISCOUNTS” for 25% off the regular retail price.

This offer is available to all new purchasers of QuadPanels too, what better way of getting a selection of nurnies to use than through Meshweaver’s collection!

If you have Meshweaver’s Nurnie Collection, you can enter *LD, *MD or *UHD in the Filter box of QuadPanels 1.5 and you can use the Low, Medium or High resolution nurnies from a particular folder.

( The original post for QuadPanels can be found at http://liberty3d.com/?p=1005 )

Click here to download the latest version
This archive contains a few ready made nurnie objects to test QuadPanels with.

The evaluation version is limited:

• working with 6000 poly meshes.
• bugs you for a serial number often.
• only works with single polygon selections ( as opposed to detailing any number of polygons at once ) .
• only works with 2 custom nurnies.

Click here to view the demonstration video for the 1.5 upgrade

Click here to view the demonstration video for the 1.3 upgrade

Click here to view the version 1.2 demonstration video

Click here to view the original demonstration video

This is a commercial Lscript plugin available exclusively through Liberty3d.com for just $19.95US. The evaluation version of Quadpanels requires a serial code to unlock it, based on the LightWave dongle ID of the installation it is to be used with. Email your dongle id to jamesw (at) symmetrix3d . com to receive your serial code once you’ve made payment through Paypal.

QuadPanels will be compatible with LightWave 10

As many of you know (and some of you don’t), I am also known by another alias which is DJ Lithium. Over the last 12 years and counting, DJ Lithium has been spinning vinyl (and only vinyl) online  via my radio station which has been in iTunes since before iTunes was even called that for its station radio directory.
8 years ago I started Black Tiger Recordings, a vinyl pressing record label and since 2003 we have pressed over 14 12″ records on BTR and our other sub-labels of artists from around the world. Many of the artists have gone on to have incredibly successful careers because of those 12″ releases which help to cut through the noise of the endless sea of digital releases. Now its time for me to do the same and I am asking for your assistance. But not without something in exchange of course.

Please visit this link for more details.

http://www.indiegogo.com/DJ-Lithium-EP-Track-Production-and-Vinyl-Release

Thank you for your support!

This is the third volume in a tool-based learning series on Lightwave 9.6’s Modeler taught by LightWave Instructor Adam Gibson. Each tool is broken into it’s own video for quick and easy reference. The Modeler Series is designed so that you can find the tool you want to learn about instantly by looking at the name of each video clip.  You don’t have to watch the whole volume in one sitting or be searching through hours of content to find the tool you want to learn about.

Project based video training is great but this video is designed so that the beginner and advanced LightWave student can learn the software in small chunks and get a better understanding of what each tool does before attempting a project.  No point in teaching someone how to build a house if they’ve never used a hammer. Here we start at the basic so the student is better prepared for more advanced applications of their LightWave tool set. To purchase click on the link below:

http://www.learn3dsoftware.com/lw_96_modeler_vol_3.htm

Table of Contents for Volume #3

Chapter 1- Intro

Chapter 2-  FlipIt Tool

Chapter 3-  FlipIt Fast Tool

Chapter 4-  Aligner Tool (World Mode)

Chapter 5- Aligner Tool (Foreground to Background Mode)

Chapter 6- Aligner Tool (Background to Foreground Mode)

Chapter 7- Aligner Tool (Absolute Mode)

Chapter 8- Smooth Scale Tool

Chapter 9- Segment Scale Tool

Chapter 10- BG Conform Tool

Chapter 11- Wrap Sphere Tool- Part One

Chapter 12- Wrap Sphere Tool- Part Two

Chapter 13- Mirror Tool

Chapter 14- Mirror X Tool

Chapter 15- Mirror Y Tool

Chapter 16- Mirror Z Tool

Chapter 17- Spin It Tool

Chapter 18- Knife Tool

Chapter 19- Subdivide Tool

Chapter 20- Triple Tool

Chapter 21- Divide Tool

Chapter 22- Fractalize Tool

Chapter 23- Symmetrize Tool

Chapter 24- Split Tool

Chapter 25- Band Saw Tool

Chapter 26- Band Saw Pro Tool

Chapter 27- Make Pole Tool

Chapter 28- Julienne Tool

Chapter 29- Julienne 2 Tool

Chapter 30- Add Points Tool

Chapter 31- Quick Saw Tool

Running Time: 3 hrs. 19 mins.

High Quality (Screen-Res 1440 x 900 pixels) Quicktime Video

http://www.learn3dsoftware.com/lw_96_modeler_vol_3.htm

Buy now for only $19.00USD

YES! It’s all finally done!

Our server move for Liberty3d.com is now complete and you can continue to use all areas of the site without any problems. If you do run into a problem though, let us know right away.

We will be pushing hard for the rest of August and beyond to bring you more excellent tools and training that you can use! Let freedom reign!

Thanks for your patience and your support of our efforts here at Liberty3d.com. The amount of community support for our site has built up so much over the last few weeks that we are very humbled by it. We will endeavor to continue and keep bringing you the best we can every time all the time.

Kat

LightWave 3D 9.6 Modeler Volume #2-by Adam Gibson

This is the second volume in a tool-based learning series on LightWave 9.6’s Modeler taught by LightWave Instructor Adam Gibson. Each tool is broken into it’s own video for quick and easy reference. The Modeler Series is designed so that you can find the tool you want to learn about instantly by looking at the name of each video clip.

You don’t have to watch the whole volume in one sitting or be searching through hours of content to find the tool you want to learn about.  Project based video training is great but this video is designed so that the beginner and advanced LightWave student can learn the software in small chunks and get a better understanding of what each tool does before attempting a project.

No point in teaching someone how to build a house if they’ve never used a hammer. Here we start at the basic so the student is better prepared for more advanced applications of their LightWave tool set.

Table of Contents for Volume #2

Chapter 1- Intro

Chapter 2-  Jump Tool

Chapter 3-  Fit All

Chapter 4-  Fit Selected

Chapter 5- Pan Tool-Part 1

Chapter 6- Pan Tool-Part 2

Chapter 7- Magnify Tool

Chapter 8- Zoom Tool

Chapter 9- Single View

Chapter 10- Zoom-In and Zoom-Out Tools

Chapter 11- Pivot Point Tool-Part 1

Chapter 12- Pivot Point Tool-Part 2

Chapter 13- Center View on Mouse Pointer

Chapter 14- Delete Tool

Chapter 15- Copy Tool

Chapter 16- Cut Tool

Chapter 17- Paste

Chapter 18- Paste Tool

Chapter 19- Surface (Naming a Surface)

Chapter 20- Layers Settings (Rename Layer)

Chapter 21- Delete Layer

Chapter 22- Insert Layer

Chapter 23- Swap Layers

Chapter 24- Flatten Layers

Chapter 25- Layers: Shift Up and Shift Down

Chapter 26- Layers: Cut Swap Paste Tool

Chapter 27- Layers: Copy Swap Paste Tool

Chapter 28- Hide Selected

Chapter 29- Hide Unselected

Chapter 30- Hide Invert

Chapter 31- Unhide

Chapter 32- Symmetry Mode

Chapter 33- Final

Running Time: 2 hrs 23 mins

High Quality (Screen-Res 1440 x 900 pixels) Quicktime Video

Only $19.00USD

SITE MOVE UPDATE!
Sunday, August 8th!

Our server move is still on the go, but we are getting closer to completion. We ask that during this time you refrain from and large downloads, including our videos as DNS has still not fully propagated over the internet. This may cause issues with files not completing transfer to you on your end.

Liberty3d.com email addresses are at this time temporarily down, however they will be back up very shortly.

We will be working hard through out the weekend to get us back up and running in full capacity as soon as possible.

Stay tuned!

Be advised that we are hard at work moving the site to our new server location. During this time, some functions may be disabled or missing while we configure things for use on the new server.

We will be working hard through out the weekend to get us back up and running in full capacity as soon as possible. Stay tuned!

LightWave3D Video Collection Special!
10 Powerful Instructional Videos (Download Only) for only $119.00USD!

Adam Gibson has put together a fantastic collection of his videos at a fantastic limited time only bundle. Now is your chance to pick up a major collection of training videos for LightWave3D and zBrush! All this for only under 120 bucks?! YES!

Here are the details:

List of Titles in Collection-by LightWave Instructor Adam Gibson

Lightwave 9.6 Advanced UV Mapping and Texturing-Volume #1 (Photo-Realistic Human Series)-Reg. Price $29.00 US Funds

Lightwave 9.6 Advanced UV Mapping and Texturing-Volume #2 (Photo-Realistic Human Series)-Reg. Price $29.00 US Funds

Lightwave 9: Surfacing for Beginners Volume #1 (Surface Editor Essentials)-Reg. Price $19.00 US Funds

Lightwave 9: Surfacing for Beginners Volume #2 (Diffuse, Reflectivity, Transparency, Luminosity, and more!!)-Reg. Price $19.00 US Funds

Lightwave 9: Spacecraft Modeling-Reg. Price $35.00 US Funds

Lightwave 9: Dinosaur Modeling-Project Velociraptor-Reg. Price $20.00 US Funds

Lightwave 9: Dinosaur UV Mapping-UV Mapping a Velociraptor -Reg. Price $20.00 US Funds

ZBrush 3.1 for Lightwave Users Volume #1-How to Paint Color-Reg. Price $16.00 US Funds

ZBrush 3.1 for Lightwave Users Volume #2-Normal Maps-Reg. Price $16.00 US Funds

ZBrush 3.1 for Lightwave Users Volume #3-Displacement Maps-Reg. Price $16.00 US Funds

Get all of these videos now for only $119.00 U.S.- *(Offer Extended to Aug.15th/2010)

LightWave3D Video Collection Special!
10 Powerful Instructional Videos (Download Only) for only $119.00USD!

Adam Gibson has put together a fantastic collection of his videos at a fantastic limited time only bundle. Now is your chance to pick up a major collection of training videos for LightWave3D and zBrush! All this for only under 120 bucks?! YES!

Here are the details:

List of Titles in Collection-by LightWave Instructor Adam Gibson

Lightwave 9.6 Advanced UV Mapping and Texturing-Volume #1 (Photo-Realistic Human Series)-Reg. Price $29.00 US Funds

Lightwave 9.6 Advanced UV Mapping and Texturing-Volume #2 (Photo-Realistic Human Series)-Reg. Price $29.00 US Funds

Lightwave 9: Surfacing for Beginners Volume #1 (Surface Editor Essentials)-Reg. Price $19.00 US Funds

Lightwave 9: Surfacing for Beginners Volume #2 (Diffuse, Reflectivity, Transparency, Luminosity, and more!!)-Reg. Price $19.00 US Funds

Lightwave 9: Spacecraft Modeling-Reg. Price $35.00 US Funds

Lightwave 9: Dinosaur Modeling-Project Velociraptor-Reg. Price $20.00 US Funds

Lightwave 9: Dinosaur UV Mapping-UV Mapping a Velociraptor -Reg. Price $20.00 US Funds

ZBrush 3.1 for Lightwave Users Volume #1-How to Paint Color-Reg. Price $16.00 US Funds

ZBrush 3.1 for Lightwave Users Volume #2-Normal Maps-Reg. Price $16.00 US Funds

ZBrush 3.1 for Lightwave Users Volume #3-Displacement Maps-Reg. Price $16.00 US Funds

Get all of these videos now for only $119.00 U.S.- *(Offer Extended to Aug.15th/2010)

Lightwave 3D Spacecraft Modeling by Adam Gibson

This video is great for those of you who wish to get into Sci-Fi or Vehicle modeling. In this training tutorial you will how to create an organic style spaceship that combines both smooth and hard edged Sub-D surfaces in one mesh. There are very few videos which show how to do this. It also shows traditional Polygonal modeling to create certain details and parts of the spaceship.

3D Students will greatly benefit from this fully detailed tutorial which shows all parts of the production process in modeling an advanced-level model of this kind.

Software Used: Lightwave 3D 9.3.1

User Level: Beginner to Novice

Video Codec: Quicktime Video

Available via Instant Download for $19.00

Lightwave 3D Spacecraft Modeling by Adam Gibson

This video is great for those of you who wish to get into Sci-Fi or Vehicle modeling. In this training tutorial you will how to create an organic style spaceship that combines both smooth and hard edged Sub-D surfaces in one mesh. There are very few videos which show how to do this. It also shows traditional Polygonal modeling to create certain details and parts of the spaceship.

3D Students will greatly benefit from this fully detailed tutorial which shows all parts of the production process in modeling an advanced-level model of this kind.

Software Used: Lightwave 3D 9.3.1

User Level: Beginner to Novice

Video Codec: Quicktime Video

Available via Instant Download for $19.00

Adam Gibson is back in action with this excellent modeling video!

This is the first volume in a tool-based learning series on LightWave 9.6’s Modeler taught by LightWave Instructor Adam Gibson. Each tool is broken into it’s own video for quick and easy reference. The Modeler Series is designed so that you can find the tool you want to learn about instantly by looking at the name of each video clip.

You don’t have to watch the whole volume in one sitting or be searching through hours of content to find the tool you want to learn about.  Project based video training is great but this video is designed so that the beginner and advanced LightWave student can learn the software in small chunks and get a better understanding of what each tool does before attempting a project.  No point in teaching someone how to build a house if they’ve never used a hammer. Here we start at the basic so the student is better prepared for more advanced applications of their LightWave tool set.

Only $19.00 USD via Instant Download!

Adam Gibson is back in action with this excellent modeling video!

This is the first volume in a tool-based learning series on LightWave 9.6’s Modeler taught by LightWave Instructor Adam Gibson. Each tool is broken into it’s own video for quick and easy reference. The Modeler Series is designed so that you can find the tool you want to learn about instantly by looking at the name of each video clip.

You don’t have to watch the whole volume in one sitting or be searching through hours of content to find the tool you want to learn about.  Project based video training is great but this video is designed so that the beginner and advanced LightWave student can learn the software in small chunks and get a better understanding of what each tool does before attempting a project.  No point in teaching someone how to build a house if they’ve never used a hammer. Here we start at the basic so the student is better prepared for more advanced applications of their LightWave tool set.

Only $19.00 USD via Instant Download!

QuadPanels has another update.

When using the folder option to scatter objects across a surface, the new feature just added is the ability to filter that folder using wildcards, so not all the objects need to be included.

Why?

Well, Liberty3D and Meshweaver are offering all QuadPanels owners a permanent deal on the purchase of the Ultimate Nurnie Collection. Registered owners should contact James Willmott at jamesw (at) symmetrix3d (dot) com for their special offer code. Then go to http://www.meshweaver.com/store.htm and click on the link at the top that says “QUADPANEL PLUGIN OWNERS CLICK HERE FOR YOUR SPECIAL DISCOUNTS” for 25% off the regular retail price.

This offer is available to all new purchasers of QuadPanels too, what better way of getting a selection of nurnies to use than through Meshweaver’s collection!

If you have Meshweaver’s Nurnie Collection, you can enter *LD, *MD or *UHD in the Filter box of QuadPanels 1.35 and you can use the Low, Medium or High resolution nurnies from a particular folder.

( The original post for QuadPanels can be found at http://liberty3d.com/?p=1005 )

Click here to download the latest version
This archive contains a few ready made nurnie objects to test QuadPanels with.

The evaluation version is limited:

• working with 6000 poly meshes.
• bugs you for a serial number often.
• only works with single polygon selections ( as opposed to detailing any number of polygons at once ) .
• only works with 2 custom nurnies.

Click here to view the demonstration video for the 1.3 upgrade
Click here to view the version 1.2 demonstration video
Click here to view the original demonstration video

This is a commercial Lscript plugin available exclusively through Liberty3d.com for just $19.95US. The evaluation version of Quadpanels requires a serial code to unlock it, based on the LightWave dongle ID of the installation it is to be used with. Email your dongle id to jamesw (at) symmetrix3d . com to receive your serial code once you’ve made payment through Paypal.

QuadPanels will be compatible with LightWave 10