7.5b Changes 8.2 Changes Table of Contents

8 Changes

March 19th, 2004

This is a list of the changes in the LightWave 8 release that affect the SDK.

lwcomring.h

  • A new header file containing the definitions to allow plug-ins to use a standard, event-driven means of intercommunication called the Communication Ring.

lwanimuv.h

  • This is the header for the new AnimUV Layout plug-in class.

lwdopetrack.h

  • This is the header for the Dopetrack Proxy global that allows Layout Tool-class plug-ins to use the new Layout Dopetrack as their interface.

lwsceneeditor.h

  • This is the header for the SceneEditor global that allows plug-ins to interact with the new Layout Scene Editor system.

Miscellaneous

  • The AnimUV project has been added to the SDK samples that demonstrates animation of texture UV coordinates.
  • The Communication Ring mechanism is demonstrated by the ComRing sample SDK project, which include an LScript and C-code plug-in that intercommunicate.
  • The Custom Polygon plug-in class has an example SDK project 
  • A new changeEvent() function has been added to the lwimage.h header to allow plug-ins to be notified of editing changes to loaded images.
  • motionBlur() and fieldRendering() functions have been added for the Camera Info global.
  • The Scene Info global now provides information about antialiasing, enhancedAA, adapativeSampling, adaptiveThreshold and soft filter settings.