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Realtime Grid Snap 1.5
(Master script - Layout 7.5c Intel)

"Realtime Grid Snap" once activated in Layout allows you to snap on the grid
by using standard translate and rotate manipulators.
You simply decide the step size both for translations and rotations and the grid size.


Realtime Grid Snap features:

- Stepped translations and rotations

- Uses standard manipulators

- Resizes Layout grid according to the grid size parameter

- Translations and Rotations activated separately

- New: snaps to objects pivot interactively

- New: floating point controls enhance snap range

CollagerPro 1.0 Beta
(Image Processing - Master script - Layout 7.5c Intel)

CollagerPro is an Lscript to create image collages out of .bmp thumbnails.
We opened a public beta-testing program, as CollagerPro will be a shareware
software upon public release.

Beta testing is for a limited number of users.

CollagerPro features:

- Input as many thumbs as you want in a single directory.
CollagerPro has no limitation in the number of thumbs
it can process.

- Outputs large images for poster creation with no limitations
in output size.

- Its C-written core allows direct file writing on disk without
memory consumption. This means you don't need to have gigabytes
of RAM to make a huge collage.

- Layout built-in preview system. You can preview your collage directly
in Layout, deciding the scaling percentage to display.

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- Preview resizing using bilinear filtering. CollagerPro fast preview
takes advantage of bilinear filtering to provide an accurate preview
of your final collage.

- Random, Recycle, on screen statistics, and on-file statistics options.

Note: Tested only on Layout 7.5c - Intel machines.

ASK FOR: CollagerPro - Beta

NormalOffset (Modeler - 7.5c Lscript)

NormalOffset is a realtime point normal move tool. Unlike other tools and plugins,
this lscript requires polygons and points selection at the same time.
Point normal calculation is limited to the selected polygons instead of
all the polygons the points are connected with.
Axis constraints lets you also exclude each normal-axis movement.

Warning: Operation is not undoable using the undo command.

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ActiveImagePlane 1.0
(Motion script - Layout 7.5)
Updated, October 2003

ActiveImagePlane is a compiled motion script for Layout.
With a very basic initial setup it is possible to attach an image plane
to the camera dynamically.

This has several benefits:

- You can freely animate the Plane to achieve animated distance
from camera or motion effects on the Background for example.
- You can move the camera freely when the timeline is not playing.
This is useful to fine tune "match moving" works.
- The Plane will always fit the Camera angle no matter the Camera
settings you change or the "Z" distance from the Camera.

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SaveObjectsCopies@dir 1.0 (Layout 7.5)

Allows you to Save currently selected objects copies to a specified directory.
You can obviously save a multiselection or all objects in the scene.
The suffix option lets you add a string suffix to all the saved copies.
Objects copies are automatically loaded into current scene.

Layered Objects not supported.

For easier access, you can add this script to the Layout menus and to the context menus (left,middle,right mouse button menus).

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DynaParent 1.2 (Layout - Update)

New version of DynaParent.
Now you can enable/disable also rotations and translations globally
These new features allow you not only to dynamically parent objects
but also to dynamically target them.
In the package a sample scene is included to show how to use the new features.

DOWNLOAD DynaParent 1.2. (21 Kb)

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AnimPlus (Layout animation pack)
This suite is designed to simplify some animation tasks.
It boosts interactivity to standard Lightwave features and adds new ones.

AnimPlus includes:

DynaParent 1.0 (motion script 7.5 ONLY - Release)
Animated dynamic parenting script messiah:animate style.
DynaParent allows animated dynamic parenting with all the objects in the scene.
You can easily attach sliders to control parenting over time, and modify the curve in the graph editor.
Parenting allowed with all sorts of items: Meshes, null, cameras, bones etc.
DynaParent is the main feature of the AnimPlus animation pack.

Snap (generic script 7.5)
Snap is a utility designed to be assigned to an hotkey in Layout.
It allows PivotPoint snapping with multiselection within items of the same kind.
It'll snap all the selected items to the last selected.

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Global Apply Shaders (master script 7.5 and 8.0)

This script will apply the selected shader to the selected object/s or surface/s.
If the "Edit by Object" mode is selected the script will apply the shader to all the surfaces of the selected object/s.
A "Remove" and a "Remove All" (shaders) function is also provided.
Surface Baker selectable.

ATTENTION: Do not apply on layered objects.

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ImagePlane (motion script 7.5 ONLY)
This script will create the Lightwave equivalent of a Maya ImagePlane.
You can apply it to many planes at the same time.(to create a "deep" image plane)
Refresh the timeline if you change zoom factor or any other parameter that changes
the Camera angles, and the plane will follow the changes.

Important: Do not clone the object after the script is applied!!!

Update:
Fixed crash on "Clear Scene".
Distance parameter is now saved in the scene file.
Added realtime modification of all planes when camera angles change.

DOWNLOAD (2 Kb)

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ShowHide (generic script)

This simple script works like a switch to show/hide nulls, motion paths,
handles, IkChains and cages.
It's designed to be assigned to an hotkey.

DOWNLOAD (1 Kb)

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