Lightwrap project?

so, here's my latest idea... (i'll probably be interested for a week, and then when it gets too hard, totally abandon it, but for now...)

So, next weekend, at a sci-fi/fantasy convention up in Washington state, I'm going to be on a greenscreen panel, to show budding filmmakers how to do simple greenscreen effects. There's another guy on it with me, and we want to keep it as simple and cheap and easy as possible. We're going to be setting up green & blue screens and shooting footage right there, and compositing it while it's being projected for everyone. He's going to show the program he knows http://site.magix.net/english-us/home/v ... it-pro-11/ and, naturally, i'll be showing AE. I'm gonna try to work out a simple little exercise using tools other than Keylight in case people only have the standard version, but I also want to be able to show some color matching and lightwrap, cuz these are very important. Sometimes they are all that seperates a professional comp and an amatuer one. So, in an effort to make it easy, I'd rather show a lightwrap plug-in rather than the home-made technique. The simpliest of the home-made varieties I show in my video tutorial, but there are much more complex ways to have tons more control over it.
But I want to make it one click, and to do that, I need a plug-in. Certainly I know of a few and have used them (and love them!), but they always seems to be part of a big plug-ins package that costs $300. I'm trying to find a single, individual, CHEAP or FREE tool.
I've been searching around all day and can't find anything online.

So I'm wondering, does anyone know of any? Or, better yet, do you guys think it's possible to write one? One that we could give out free, so everyone could have lightwrap easily!

I'm familiar with all the usual ones (Tinderbox 4, Walker FX, the old Composite Wizard, etc...), and unless you know how to get ONLY the lightwrap tool out of those sets, no need to mention them.

dude, that's awesome! i checked out the user's guide today, there's NOTHING in that at all! But, all the scripting stuff was installed so I think the help files are on my computer somewhere. But this link totally nails it! thanks!

yeah, it's a lot like stepping into someone elses finished comp man. You have tons of stuff everywhere that you have no Idea what it does, or where it goes, and then to top it off, there's a bunch of other stuff that's missing that you have no idea where to get it...

"if" you are writing them on windows, you need to download a TON of extra stuff to make it work, including some packages from the 6.5 sdk that have apparently gone errant, and to make matters worse, none of this stuff is even tested on or geared for 64 bit os.

With that being said.... I'm going to wait to write any plug-ins for AE until they get 64 bit support. And in the meantime I'm going to study the skeleton file in the sdk. That's the main file you will use to start from every time you make a plugin. I could only get like three of the example plugins to compile off the bat, and they were only to show the functionality of adding buttons, sliders, and color pickers. Pretty basic stuff, but also pretty messy in my opinion. I think they were just like whatever, we have a ton of other stuff we're updating, and kind of left this sdk rather unfinished. But then again, i'm coming from the shake sdk, which is completely comprehensive, awesome, and super easy to use. This one seemed really disorganized and swiss-cheese-ish.

-Z