Newtek - LightWave 3D 9 - LWDU90FPE01 - LWDU90FPE01 - SaverSoftware

Newtek - LightWave 3D 9 - LWDU90FPE01

Manufacturer - NEWTEK

Price £ 586.33    (£ 499.00 exc. VAT )


NEWTEK - Newtek - LightWave 3D 9 - LWDU90FPE01

Description

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

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® 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®:

Operating System: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 Panther(TM)
Processor: PowerPC® G4 minimum requirement, G5 recommended

Release Date: Tuesday, 29th August 2006