Layout Plugins

Channel & Envelope Plugins

• Clamper | Clamp individual Channels (video)

• ChannelReducer | Reduce keys of an envelope (channel) (video)

• DisableChannels | Disable Channels (video)

• Csv2Env | Copy CSV file to envelope

• E_ChannelModify | Modify Enveloped Channels outside of the Graph Editor (video)

Development & Debugging Plugins

• AutoGui | Create Auto Gui for development (video)

• GeometrySpreadsheet | Geometry Spreadsheet to monitor values

Instancing Plugins

• BakeToFileInstance | Bake instances to a file (fileInstances)

• AddInstancerDisplay | Choose your Instancer display mode and percentage

• InstanceDisplayMaster | Instance Display Master

• InstanceBaker | Bake Instances (video)

• InstanceBrowser | Browse all Instancers

Instance and Randomizer Plugins

• InstanceRandomizer | Randomize Instancer Settings/Distribution (video)

• InstancerSeedRandomizer | Randomize Instancer Seeds

• InstToPoints | Convert Instances to points (video)

• DisableInstancers | Disable Instancers

• EnableInstancers | Enable Instancers

• SelectedClonesToInstances | Convert selected clones to Instances (video)

• FileInstance | Load a file Instance and setup the instancer (much faster than native instancing) (video, video)

• CloneToInstanceMasterUpdate | Animateable Lights/Cameras Master

• LightCameraClonetoInstancers | Clone Lights/Cameras to Instancers (video)

Buffer/Passes Plugins

• AOVAddAO | Setup Ambient Occlusion Buffer

• AOVObjGroup | Setup Individual Object Buffer

• AOVPerObject | Setup Per Object Buffer

• AOVPerObjectSurf | Setup Per Object/Surface Buffer

• AOVSurfGroup | Setup Surface Group Buffer

• ColorIDAOV | Create a ColorID (clown) buffer (video)

• DepthAOV | Create a Depth Buffer

• InstanceIDAOV | Create an Instance ID ( clown) Buffer (video)

• Obj2AOV | Create custom buffers based on object( s)

• CreateLightPass | Create Light Buffer

• PartsIDAOV | Create an object parts color ( clown) buffer (video)

Visibility & Display Plugins

• ViewportGuides | Setup Viewport Guides like Photoshop Guides (video)

• InstanceIDs | Display Instance IDs

• CustomObjName | Show the Items name as Custom Object

• MddPreview | Display MDD as a preview (video)

• ShowSpeed | Display the speed of an item (video)

• ShowUV | Show the UV in Layout (video)

• VertexIDs | Display Vertex IDs

• VisHideSelected | Hide selected objects in OpenGL

• VisHideSelectedHierarchy | Hide selected object hierarchy in OpenGL

• VisIsolateSelected | Show only selected object in OpenGL

• VisIsolateSelectedHierarchy | Show only selected object and its hierarchy in OpenGL

• VisRestoreAll | Restore Object OpenGL visibility from stored values (video)

• VisStoreAll | Store Object OpenGL visibility (video)

• RenHideSelected | Remove selected objects from rendering

• RenHideSelectedHierarchy | Remove an object and its hierarchy from rendering

• RenIsolateSelected | Render only selected object

• RenIsolateSelectedHierarchy | Render only the selected object and its hierarchy

• RenRestoreAll | Restore object rendering states to stored value

• RenStoreAll | Store object rendering states

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Setup Plugins

• Bugs | Submit LDTools Bugs

• Chat | Goto LDTools Discord Chat

• Configs | Config Manager (video)

• 3DCoatApplinkLayout | 3D Coat Applink

• AddCamZoomControl | Adds a simple Zoom Control Setup for a Camera (video)

• AddNoHubPro | Hub Replacement

• AddSceneSampleCalculator | Render Sample Calculator

• BCF2VDB | Convert BCF Turbulence FD outputs to VDB

• Gridify | Arrange all selected Items in grid form (video)

• CreateMeshLight | Convert Object to Mesh Light

• EasyBendDeform | Setup a bend deformed (video, video)

• EasyInstantMesh | Using Instant Meshes for automatic retopology

• EasyTextureBake | Easy texture baking such as highres to lowres mesh (video)

• EasyVoxLayout | Easy MagicaVoxels Setup

• SceneToIndividualLayersPrep | Compiles a list of all Objects/Layers in scene

• SceneToIndividualLayersApplyPrepped | Replaces split multilayer Objects as single layer to the scene

Surfaces & Materials Plugins

• AddSurfaceLink | Link Multiple same-named surfaces and edit as one (video)

• ClipboardToSurf | Create Surface from Clipboard

• ConvertBatch | Batch Convert standard T channels to Nodes (Native & Octane)

• CopySurfaceToSameName | Use this to copy surface properties from one object to another with the same surface name

• LayExtractSurfacePolys | Create a new Object from the selected surface (video)

• CopySurfNode | Copy Surface Node (video)

• PasteSurfNode | Paste a surface Node (video)

• ImportNodesToObjects | Import Nodes to objects

• LayRestoreMaterialSlot | Restore Material from Slot

• LayStoreMaterialSlot | Store Material in Slot

• MergeObjectSurfaces | Merge Object Surfaces

• OctaneUDIMTextureSetup | Create Octane UDIM Setup (video)

• RemCustBuffersFromSurface | Remove any custom buffers from an object's surface

• RenameSurfaceAsObjectName | Rename a surface to include the object's name (video)

• [ResetMaterial](https://origamidigital.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=

odtools:od_resetmaterial) | Reset Material (video)

• RewireNodes | Rewire nodes in Node editor (video)

• SurfaceArea | Calculate the surface area (video)

• SurfaceCleanup | Remove unconnected nodes from a material (video)

• SurfaceCopyWildcard | Quick deployment of similar "type" materials

• SurfaceRenamer | Rename Surfaces

• SurfDirectory | Apply saved surface to all objects in a directory

• SurfToClipboard | Copy a surface to clipboard

• SurfVariations | Create variations of an object based on multiple surfaces saved in a directory

• WeightsFromSurfaces | Create Weights from Selected Surfaces (video)

• ExternalSurfaceOverride | Overwrite a surface with an external file (video)

• SurfaceLink | Link Multiple same named surfaces together

• SurfaceSnapshots | Surface Snapshots for easy look development (video)

• ObjSurfaceReplaceMaster | Surface Master for Object Replacements

Scene Reference Plugins

• Videos here and here

• AddRefScene | Add a Reference Scene

• AddSceneReferences | Scene References

• RenderabilityRefScene | Set the render state of a reference scene

• SceneReferences | SceneReferences

• RefreshRefScene | Refresh a loaded reference scene

• CheckForUpdatedRefScene | Check for an updated Reference Scene

• DisableRefScene | Disable a reference Scene

• DisableRefSceneBBox | Disable a reference Scene but show bounding boxes

• UpdateRefSource | Update a reference Scene

• VisibilityRefScene | Change the visibility of a reference scene

• ExportHierarchyAsNewRefScene | Export a hierarchy as a new reference scene

Rendering Plugins

• LD_LWSN_Command | Show the LWSN command line render commandline

• LD_LWSSplitter | Split Scene into multiple subscenes for rendering

Transform & Motion Plugins

• BakeBulletSim | Bake a bullet simulation into motion channels

• EasyBake | video | Easy bake motions and removing expressions/modifiers/etc (

• AnimationLayers | video | Animation Layers allows for simple layering/adjustments of motions (

• CopyXF | Copy Transforms

• CopyLayoutTransform | video | Copy Layout transforms (

• HierarchyHMot | video | Save Hierarchial Motions (

• HierarchyHMotLoader | Load Hierarchial Motions

• ImportHMotToSelection | video | Import hierarchical motions to selection only (

• RestOnGroundCeiling | video | Rest an object on the ground or ceiling (

• PasteXF | video | Paste a transform from clipboard (

• MatchItemToTarget | Match a new item's position/rotation/scale to a target item

• MergeMotionsFromScene | Merge the motions from another scene

• SwapItems | video | Swap two items (their motions) (

• TargetChildren | Each object sets up a target to point to its child

• TempTarget | Create a temporary target

• PointSnap | video | Snap an item to the position of points/polys on another Object (

• curTransToKeyZero | video | Set the current transforms to key at frame 0 (GUI) (

• curTransToKeyZeroNoGui | Set the current transforms to key at frame 0

Placer & Distribution Plugins

• Obj2PoissonSampledPoints | video | Poisson Sampler for point distribution on objects via MeshLab (

• EnvImgTracer | video | Create an equirectangular image with positions for light/reflection hits (simple HDRLight Studio) (

• InteractiveNullMotion | video | Setup interactive nulls on objects and create a motion (

• ObjectPlacer | video | Place Objects on other Objects (

• BonePlacer | video | Place a Bone interactively on other objects (

• LightPlacer | video | Place Lights by clicking on glancing/reflection angles of an object (

• InterActiveReparent | vide | Interactively setup a new parent to an object (

UNSORTED Plugins

• DisplacementImageRead | Read Image Pixel values and apply as displacement

• LinkToPoint | video | Link an object to the position of another point (

• BuildObjSeqList | Build an Object Sequence List

• CacheMasterSetup | video | Setup Cache Master for easy caching and performance increases (

• CalculateFFXLength | video | Calculate FiberFX Hair Length (

• ChangeConfigParameter

• ChangeSubPatch | Change SubPatch Level of multiple objects

• ClipBoardToItemInfo | Get Item Info from Clipboard

• CloneItemToSelection | Clones a scene item to selected scene items

• ConsolidateScene | Consolidate objects of the same name in a scene

• ConvMot2Spline | video | Convert motion to spline (

• CopyAndReplaceExternalImages | Copy external content directory images into the content folder and relink

• CopyLayoutDispPointInfo | video | Copy Point Displacement info to clipboard (

• CopyObjectFilename | Copy current selected Object Filename

• CreateBoneChain | Create a Bone Chain

• CreateEnvSphere | video | Create an environment sphere (

• CreateKeyPro | video | Creating keys with extra options (

• LoadVDB | Loads a .vdb file and sets up a Fog Volume or Levelset VDB

• CreateVDB | video | Create a Fog Volume or Levelset VDB (

• CreateVDB as Proxy | video | Create an object proxy via vdb, and optionally setup for render replacement (

• DeleteKeyPro | video | Deleting keys with extra options (

• DeSelectNulls | video | Deselect all Nulls (

• DirectoryLoad | Load all objects in a directory

• DisableDisplacement | Disable Displacement

• DisplacementImageWrite | Write the point displacement into a Imagefile

• EnableDisplacement | Enable Displacement

• ExportMultiMDD | Export Multiple objects as single MDD/Object

• HandlerStatusChanger | Change the status of a Server pane

• ImageBillBoard | video | Create Image Billboards from images (

• InsertBetween | video | Insert an item in-between two other items (

• InvokeLayCMD | video | Invoke Layout Commands (

• ItemDependencies | video | video | Show all item inter-dependencies (

• ItemInfoToClipBoard | Copy Item info to the clipboard

• ItemPolygonStatistics | Shows the polygon quantities for selected objects

• ItemsToPFX | Convert Item positions to .pfx particle data

• ItemToCamera | video | Move Selected item to the camera (

• JustDelete | Delete Item, without gui

• JustSave | Just save an item, without gui

• LayCopyObject | video | Copy an Object to clipboard (

• LayCreatePolyGridUV | Create Polygon UV Grid

• LayIdentifyUVMap | video | Identify which UVMaps belong to the object (

• LayLoad | Loads object

• LayoutAbsSize | video | Absolute Size of Object (

• LayPasteObject | video | Paste Object from clipboard (

• LaySave | Saves object

• LayUpdateSelObjs | Reload selected objects

• LightExclusionLister | List Light Exclusions

• LocalizeToContentDir | Copy all external loaded content into the content Folder

• LockUnselected | Lock Unselected Items

• LW2SubstPainter | video | video | Send Object to Substance Painter (

• MappingToObjectUV | Set the Texture Mapping to Object UV

• MeshHandlerOrder | Change the Mesh Handler Order

• ModelPackager | Package a model to be self-sustainable

• ObjectsToDir | Copy all selected objects & textures to a directory

• ObjectsToLwo2 | video | Save Objects as LWO2 (pre 2018) format (

• ObjVtxToNulls | video | Create a Null at each point of an object (

• OpenGLPreview | video | Create an OpenGL Frame based preview with many options (

• OpenImageIn | video | Send an Image in Photoshop/etc (

• OpenSnapShotGui | Surface Snapshot for fast lookdev development

• PBRImporter | video | video | Import PBR Texture sets and setup automatic materials (

• PFXToNulls | video | Convert .pfx particle data animated Nulls (

• LD_PolyFromItems | Create a poly from other items pivot positions

• PrimitiveLayout | video | Create various uv'ed and subd friendly primitives (

• ProjectSwitcher | video | Project Switcher (

• QuickIKChain | video | Setup a quick IK Chain (

• Randomizer | video | Randomize Values (

• ReloadObject | Reload Object

• RemoveLDMasters | Remove all LD Master Plugins

• ReplaceByPolycount | video | Replace objects if their polycount/bounding box matches * creating clones (

• ReplaceImageExtension | video | Replace an Image by extension (for example switch between jpg and png) (

• ReplaceMultipleWithObjectLayer | video | Replace multiple objects with an object layer (

• ReplaceObjSets | Replace Object Sets ( like hierarchies that you have multiple times in a scene)

• ReplaceWithNull | Replace any Item ( Light/Camera/Bone/Object) with a Null

• RizomLayoutBridge | video | RizomUV Bridge (

• SaveChangedObjects | Save only changed/updated objects

• SaveSceneAs0 | Go to frame 0, then save the scene * important for bullet simulations to avoid calculations on scene load

• SaveSelectionAsLWO | video | Save the Selected objects as .lwo file (for example, when you imported .obj's) (

• SaveTransLoad | Save Object as transformed and reload item

• SaveUnsavedObjects | Save objects that haven't been saved yet

• SceneQuickSetup | video | Quick Scene Setup (

• SceneSelectionToClipboard | Copy Scene Selection to clipboard

• SelectClones | video | Select all clones of an item (

• SelectionToChain | video | Create a Parent chain from the selection (in order) (

• SelectItem | video | Select an Item (

• SelectNulls | video | Select all Nulls (

• SelectObjectsBySurface | Select objects by surface selected in the Surface Editor

• SelectObjectsByWildCard | video | Select Objects by wildcard (

• SelectSurfFromObject | Select the surface from an object

• SelMeshFromSurf | video | Select mesh from picked surface (

• SendToModeler | Send selected objects to Modeler

• GetFromModeler | Get objects/Layers from Modeler

• SetTextureImage | video | Create an Image Node from the selected image(s) (

• SetupBakingCam | Setup a surface Baking Camera

• ShowImageConnections | video | video | Show all image connections (

• SplineCtrlSwitch | video | Switch between a spline control and motion setup (

• SuperVehicleSetupPro | video | video | Simple Vehicle Setup (

• T2Nodes | Convert standard T materials into nodes (native & octane)

• ThumbNailer | Create Thumbnails of Objects

• ToggleProxies | Toggle between objects and their proxy objects

• ToggleSubDsAndSave | Toggle the SubD Switch and save object

• UnCloneObject | video | Unclone an object (

• UnLockAll | Unlock All Items

• Videos | LDTools Videos

• ViewportGuidesAdd | Setup Viewport Guides (ala Photoshop)

• VolumeLightFix | video | Setup a nodal fix for volumetric lights (sampling/noise) (

• VPRToIview | video | Send the VPR rendered frame to the Image viewer (

• DeflyFast | Simply Firefly Remover

• 2ptPolyInstanceFit | video | Fit Instances on 2pt Polygons (

• SkyGradSetup | video | Simple Backgound gradient setup that emulates change of day (

• BoneWeightDisplay | Show a bones weight display

• LayWeightDisplay | video | Show Weights of an object (

• AllItemNames | Display All Item Names in viewport

• AllObjNames | Display all Object Names in viewport

• CacheMaster | Cache Master Setup

• DisableAnyEnvelope | Disable Any Envelope

• ItemAnimSwitch | video | D Item Anim Switch (

• ItemFrameSwitch | Link a framerange to a specific item

• NoHubPro | Hub Replacement

• ObjectLimitedRegion | video | video | video | Sets up limited regions to only encompass selected object(s) (

• SceneInfoOverlay | Scene Information OpenGL Overlays

• SceneSampleCalculator | Calculate Samples being used in a scene

• TrailerMover | video | Setup of realistic Trailer movements (

• ObjectSeqReplacement | Object sequence replacement that also updates surfaces

• RenderTimeReplacement | video | Sets up rendertime displacement, different objects in openGL versus rendering