Installing IFW2 Textures

To Install an IFW Texture Plug-in (Intel):

Create a directory under your main Lightwave or Inspire directory (example - c:/newtek) called "ifw2_textures" (example - c:/newtek/ifw2_textures). This assumes that the directory has not already been created. Unzip the plug-in to this directory overwriting any existing files. Run Lightwave in Layout and select Options. Then click on Layout->Plug-ins->Add Plug-ins and browse to the directory where the plug-ins were unzipped (example - c:/newtek/ifw2_textures). Finally, select all the 19 plug-ins to install them. To use the IFW2 textures plug-ins add and object, select the Surface Editor and click on the Shaders tab. Then click on Add Shader and select one of the IFW2 shaders. Double clicking on the shader name will bring up the interface panel.

To Install an IFW Texture Plug-in (Mac):

Create a directory under your main lightwave or Inspire directory (example - Macintosh HD/newtek) called "ifw2_textures" (example - Macintosh HD/ifw2_textures). This assumes that the directory has not already been created. UnStuff the plug-ins to this directory overwriting any existing files. Run Lightwave in Layout and select Options. Then click on Layout->Plug-ins->Add Plug-ins and browse to the directory where the plug-ins were unzipped (example - Macintosh HD/newtek/ifw2_textures). Finally, select all the 19 plug-ins to install them. To use the IFW2 textures plug-ins add and object, select the Surface Editor and click on the Shaders tab. Then click on Add Shader and select one of the IFW2 shaders. Double clicking on the shader name will bring up the interface panel.

To Install IFW Presets:

The first thing to do is find the presets directory. This will be under the base directory, newtek or lightwave. Then follow down through "programs" to "presets". You may find that presets is another directory down, i.e, lightwave_support/presets Unzip the presets to this directory ensuring that the create folders option is on. So, using /lightwave/programs/presets/ or /lightwave/programs/lightwave_support/presets/ As the base directory. The following files should be unpacked to the following directories: IFW2_Hypervoxels to Hypervoxels/HyperVoxels Presets IFW2_Environments to EnvironmentHandler/LW TextureEnvironment IFW2_VLights to VLight Editor/Vlight Preset IFW2_Fog to Volumetrics/Ground Fog IFW2_Presets_1 IFW2_Presets_3 IFW2_Presets_3 IFW2_Presets_4 to Surface Editor/Surface Preset The final, expected, directory structure is shown to the left.

To Install IFW2 Example Gradient Settings:

Unpack ifw2_settings to your IFW2 Directory (example - Intel c:/newtek/ifw2_textures or Macintosh HD/ifw2_textures). Be sure to unzip with the create directories options enabled Finally, Add an IFW2 Shader and click on Load. Navigate to the installed directory and select any of the gradient settings files.

To Install IFW2 Example Scenes:

Create a directory under your main lightwave or Inspire directory (example - c:/newtek/ifw2_textures or Macintosh HD/newtek/ifw2_textures) called "scenes" (example - c:/newtek/ifw2_textures/scenes or Macintosh HD/newtek/ifw2_textures/scenes). This assumes that the directory has not already been created. Unpack ifw2_scenes to this directory overwriting any existing files. Be sure to unzip with the create directories options enabled Finally, load the scenes as normally bearing in mind that you will need the re-select the objects and images as the paths may have changed