NewTek Announces Fourth Major Update to LightWave 3D v9
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 NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, today announced LightWave v9.5, a major update to its award-winning 3D application, LightWave 3D. LightWave v9.5 new capabilities include a complete hair and fur solution, new lighting system and many improvements to animation, global illumination, rendering and workflow. The update will be available to registered owners of the LightWave v9 series at no charge.
The LightWave v9.5 Open Beta program is scheduled to begin early March; LightWave v9 owners who wish to participate may register now by visiting: http://register.newtek.com.
LightWave v9.5 Update Includes:
- Character Animation Enhancements
- New Hair and Fur System
- Enhanced IK and Animation Systems
- New Collada, FBX and OBJ I/O
- New IK Calculation Options for Faster Performance
- New Bone Type - Joints
- New Objective Options for IK
- IK/FK blending
- Multi-threaded Mesh Deformation Evaluation
- Modeler
- UV Unwrap/UV Relax
- Symmetry Tolerance
- Lighting, Rendering and Surfacing Enhancements
- All New Lighting System
- New Light API
- IES Lights
- New Spherical Light
- Area and Linear Lights Enhanced
- Renderer
- Faster Sampling System for GI
- Improved GI Quality
- New GI Controls to Customize the Render
- Disk-Based GI Cache
- Node Editor Enhancements
- Interpolated Soft Reflections/Refractions
- Support for New Light API Functions
- Oren-Nayar Shading Option for Many Materials
- Optimizations for Materials and Shaders
- SDK and LScript Improvements
- New Light Plug-in Class for third Party Lights and Light Plug-ins
- SDK Support for New GI Functions and Disk Cache
- SDK Support for New IK and Animation Capabilities
- Set Surface Properties Through the Surface Global
- UI and Workflow Enhancements
- Enhanced Scene Limits
- Updated Scene File Format
- EXIF Metadata Support
- OpenGL GLSL Enhanced for New Lighting System
- Image Viewer Consolidation
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