Lovefish

I created Lovefish for the purpose of allowing nonrealistic renderings (NPR) for visualization in Newtek Lightwave3D. The main purpose with Lovefish is to offer textured tones, something that has not been offered before by any previously existing shader for Lightwav3D (this was in the year 2004). The textured tones are a substantially widening of what is possible to imitate in the field of classical art techniques. Among others has a number of SIGGRAPH papers been the foundation and a source of inspiration for what has been achieve in this project.

This Project was done as an undergraduate thesis at LiTH, Sweden. The thesis was written in Swedish and can be found here: Diploma Thesis

Sample Images using Lovefish done by Andreas Carlbring:





Sample Images using Lovefish done by Jimmy Esbjörnsson:





Download the Lightwave 8.x PC version: Mirror1 Mirror2

Important (edit: march 28th): Please consider this plug-in a beta version. It does not play nice and well with the Hub connection for the moment. It crashes the modeller when the shader is used in both applications at the same time. If you dont use the Hub connection you should be safe.