There
are four platforms supported in this release, Mac, Intel, Alpha, and
SGI.
The shaders in this release require a minimum of
version 5.6 of Lightwave 3D.
(Sorry Inspire3D users, these shaders all require the
gradient.p plugin, and it is not included with Inspire3D. The official word from Newtek's Brad Peebler...
"gradient.p wasn't intended to be a part of Inspire and I don't want to change the spec now.").
The only
files in the archive is the .p file, and a Readme.txt file which
contains the URL of the main Shades web page.
All of the current documentation,
and other information about the project can be found there.
To install
the Shades plugin, copy the .p to your Plugins/Layout directory.
After adding the the .p plugin from Layout, you should see a message
that says 72 plugins were added (36 shaders and their 36 interfaces).
You should find 36 new entries in the Surface Panel's "Shader Plug-ins"
menu:
ALW_Apple_Skin
ALW_Blue_Marble
ALW_Brick2D
ALW_Coriolis3D
ALW_Cyclone3D
ALW_Dented3D
ALW_Eroded
ALW_EyeBall2D
ALW_Fire2D
ALW_Fractal_Marble
ALW_Gloss
ALW_Green_Marble
ALW_Hextile2D
ALW_LandColor5D
ALW_Marble_2
ALW_Metal_Reflection
ALW_Oren_Nayer
ALW_Parquet2D
ALW_Perlin_Marble
ALW_Planks2D
ALW_PuffyClouds3D
ALW_Saturn
ALW_SaturnRings
ALW_Screen2D
ALW_Side_Reflectivity
ALW_Soft_Reflection
ALW_Specular_Color
ALW_Stars_And_Moons
ALW_Strata3D
ALW_Strata5D
ALW_Stucco3D
ALW_SuperDents
ALW_Velvet
ALW_Venus
ALW_Wood1_2D
ALW_Wood2_2D
Mac OS9 Shades2
for LW5.6: shades2_56m.zip
Mac OS9 Shades2
for LW6.x and LW7.x: Shades_V2.3_LW65.sit
Mac OSX Shades2
for LW7.x: Shades_V2.3.OSX.p.sit
Intel
Shades2 for LW5.6: shades2_56i.zip
Intel
Shades2 for LW6.x and LW7.x: shades2_60i.zip
NOTE: If you want to try the beta version of the Intel shaders for LW7.5, which eliminate the need for the legacy plugins, visit the newshades page.
SGI Shades2
for LW5.6: shades2_56s.tar.gz
Alpha
Shades2 for LW5.6: shades2_56a.zip
WARNING to Alpha owners: Do not save a Lightwave object that has been assigned one of these shaders,
if that shader has any of the envelopes activated. It looks as if the Alpha
version of the envaccess.p global plugin has a bug in it's "Load Envelope"
routine. So if you save an object with shader envelopes activated, that object
WILL NOT load correctly back into Layout. The saved envelopes may cause
Lightwave to crash, and leave you unable to load the object again.
