Educational Price (ex VAT)
| LightWave 3D 9.2
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Product
(Price Per Licence) |
| Single User (PDF Manuals) |
£129 |
| Single User Upgrade (PDF Manuals) |
£65 |
| 5 User (Printed Manuals) |
£499 |
| 5 User Upgrade (Printed Manuals) |
£199 |
NewTek, Inc., has announced LightWave v9. The new release is the first in a series of major rewrites and restructuring of LightWave 3D's core with the addition of comprehensive new features such as a node-based materials editor, optically correct cameras, adaptive pixel subdivision, Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces, sub-surface scattering and vast render speed improvements.
Feature Highlights - Layout
Rendering - Major Core Changes to the LightWave Rendering Engine
- Adaptive Subdivision
- Node Editor
- Node based Displacement
- Advanced Camera Tools
- Timewarp
- CCTV
- HV Deformer
- Stress Map
- Sketch
- Dissolve Ray
- Z-buffer improvements
- Realistic Fog
- 'Unaffected by Object' Alpha Channel mode
- Dynamics Improvements
- ParticleFX Improvements
- Hypervoxels Improvements
- IK Booster
- Pixie Dust
Feature Highlights - Layout
Animation/ Character Animation
- Relativity 2
- Sticky
- Proximity
- Quaternion Rotations
- Align to Path
Feature Highlights - Layout
User Interface/ Workflow Improvement
- Mesh Editing
- List Manager
- OpenGL Improvements
- UI Configuration
- Visor
- File Format Support: Tiff importer
- Configuration Files
- Layout General and Display Options Redesigned
- New Render Status Panel
- Render Globals
- Deformation Evaluation Order Controls
- Load-From-Scene System Redesigned
- Scene Loading
Feature Highlights - Modeler
Modeler
- Redesigned Subdivision Surface Core Engine
- Implementation of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces in Modeler
- Edge Selection (throughout Modeler)
- Edge Weights
- Multishift now operates across multiple layers
Feature Highlights - Modeler
New Modeler Tools
- Center Pivot
- G-Toggle
- Set Sharpness
- Multishift
Feature Highlights - Modeler
New LScripts
- Flip it/ Flip it fast
- Absolute Measure
- CutSwapPaste/CopySwapPaste
- Mirror X/ Mirror Y/ Mirror Z
System Requirements
 Windows &  Macintosh
General Requirements
- System RAM: 512 MB minimum requirement, 1 GB recommended
- Graphics Card: nVidia FX 5200 series (minimum) ATIFireGL V 5100 (minimum)
- Graphics support: Full OpenGL (OpenGL 2.0 support, or ARB_shading_language_100 OpenGL extension in earlier versions, required to use GLSL features)
- Driver: Latest from chipset manufacturer
- Dedicated Video RAM: 64 MB per display minimum requirement, 128 MB recommended
- Minimum Screen Resolution: 1024x768 minimum requirement, 1280x1024 recommended
- Hard Drive Space: 230 MB for program installation (not including content)
Windows
Windows® 32-Bit:
- Operating System: Windows® XP
- Processor: Intel® or AMD
Windows® 64-Bit:
- Operating System: Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition
- Processor: Intel® EM64T or AMD64
- RAM: 1 GB
Macintosh
Macintosh
- Operating System: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 Panther(TM)
- Processor: PowerPC® G4 minimum requirement, G5 recommended
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