Welcome To The New SimplyLightwave
 

Hi all

As most of you can see.... there have been some changes.

Check out the front page http://www.simplylightwave.com

You now have a latest uploads/downloads section as well as loads of other features.

We will be updating various bits around the site over the next few days.

Many thanks to David for making the transistion as painless as possible.

So...enjoy!

Mate, it looks swell!! great work guys :)
It still says 'enjoy your stay at simplymaya' at the frontpage..

Looks great.

There are still some hard to find simplymaya messages.
I suggest you do a search in the php files after the word maya.

great !
I really like the cool new page design !
good work Kevin, David and all the other people working on the new site :D

greetz
andy

dont forget Davids work also, without him we would be nothing :) David.. you own.. respect!

dekki: If you find dead links or maya issues could you report them here please and we will sort it out asap :)

http://forum.simplylightwave.com/sho...=&threadid=649

many thanks

We are aware that parts of tutorials are missing... we are fixing this problem now

It looks cooler but I don't like the menu split up and I don't like the way everything is crammed up so tightly.

BTW, the link for the forum at the bottom of the page doesn't work.

Will we get more smilies now that the site is updated?

more smilieys next week mate!!! promise!

Broken Link:

In the forum just below the logo theres a link to Simply challenge
That link is broken. It goes to a .mhtml file
The FAQ link isent there. I guess it isent finished yet.

Found some more.
The links on the front page that show the 5 most hot threads in the forum.
They are linking to simplymaya.com not simplylightwave.com

Some tabels atleast one on the front page say simplymaya in the bootom right corner.

Same thing goes for most forum links.
Links to my PMs is simplymaya
To chose a Avatar same thing it sends me to simplymaya

Woops sorry missed the other thread for bug reports :)

Did I say they site looks great

Kevin,

I love the new site layout. Congrats to gourself and all the rest of the crew.

One slight criticism however - the red text on the green background for the news (on the main page) almost makes my eyes want to bleed! :D

Better :) ?

David

Ohh yes (*nods appreciatively*) much, much easier on the eyes. Thanks David.

Despite the new features, I believe that I prefered the old layout. I would be satisfied if only the number of new posts was displayed on the front page again.

I'm looking forward to the establishment/linking of the whole simply3Dworld community.

you know what mate.... I have some major issues also with the site..

I love the new features but really dislike the colour...

I dont mind the banner - so as to bring it in line with our maya site and our upcomming simply3dmax site but the links need brightening a little.

but I am not liking it!

When created it I was using my 21 inch diamond monitor at work and it gave an over appereance of eveything a little "brighter"

I have a busy week next week trying to get the 3dmax site up before I go away..or at least almost ready.... but I am also going to be working on some new gfx for this site

*KEV NOT HAPPY

If I might make a suggestion. I would try and unify the colors a bit more. Useing mostly two colors for the boxes backrounds can be confusing on the eyes. If I was gonna use different colors for boxes I would use different colors for different sections, not two backround colors in the same section, it feels like when I am reading or looking at a section and the box next to it is a different color that the box belongs to a different section all together, and not the same one I am reading. For instance the random tutorials backrounds should be the same color. Just an obversation. I like the right where the Key section is a differnet color to offset it from the tutorials. But on top the welcome box should have one backround color because it is one section.

It is in exactly the same place as it was b4?

Or have I missed something?

I think CheesEv is talking about the possibility to see how many unread posts you have and click on "View unread posts" on the home page, I would also like that back.

Yup :)

Ahhh ok guys ill put it back at some point today :)

Thanks. While you're making modifications, I figure I'll make a suggestion:
On the left of this page
(<---- over there)
it says, "You have uploaded:" Scripts, Models, etc. I suggest that this be changed to say "User has uploaded:" since the reader and the poster may be different people. Thanks!

Perhaps its me... I used to like logging to a page which said like,"10 new posts" which when I clicked took me to a list of threads which have changed.
I haven't been able to re-create that entrance in the new site.

dugg, if you look on the homepage, there is a link just above the points/top 5 threads section that says 'View new posts' - this should be what you're looking for.

Here is an idea. I have no clue if its possible or not though.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could keep a list of your favorite threads. That way when you need to look up something you've forgotten how to do you could just bring up the thread that talked about it.

Rich, at the bottom of the screen is a link that says 'subscribe to this thread'. Click that and you'll not only be sent a message (if your user prefs are set up that way) whenever the thread is updated, but if you go into the User CP you can then view all your subscribed threads (if none are showing, then click on the subscribed threads in your control panel - I think it only defaults to showing those that you've responded to recently).

Since every thread you ever respond to is stuffed into the subscribed thread list, you'll need to do some judicious pruning of the list over time.

Hope this helps...

Hi,

I'm a lightwave user and happened to stumble onto this site. It looks fantastic, however I'm not sure on what to do concerning dowloading tutorials, points, purchasing, etc. Isn't there a FAQs page or About Us to help first-timers on the process? Perhaps, it's here and I'm just not seeing.

Thanks in advance,
Dan

funny you should say that! The faq page was accidently destroyed while moving server...

but...it will return soon.

untill then: you can download any free tutorial here: http://www.simplylightwave.com/movie...html?cat_id=23

then if you like what you see you can but some vip points... these go from 14 points upwards and cost from 14 uk pounds upwards...with them points you can download more vids from here:

http://www.simplylightwave.com/movie_pages/index.mhtml

each tutorial part has a points value that is on that particular tutorial page

Also you can ask questions at any time and Im sure one of the gurus here can help you.

also welcome to simply lightwave :)

btw: you can buy points here: http://www.simplylightwave.com/payment.mhtml

Thanks for your help Kevin. So, if I decide to buy points, do I have the option of downloading the videos or are they only provided by cd/dvd?

Thanks,
Dan

you can download them and spend the points at your leisure!

You can also add your tutorials on to cd and get it posted to you... your choice :)

for example if you look here: http://www.simplylightwave.com/movie...tml?tut_id=514

you can see that you can either download or add to the cd...

most 56k guys prefer the cds as the files are big! but if your on cable your laughing

hope this helps

Oh, I didn't notice that. Thanks a lot for your help. These tutorials look amazing. I'm really glad I found this site.


Thanks again,
Dan

yeah the new look is great, i havent come here much lately. sorry. i´l make sure to come more often even every day if i can.

CheerS!