philnolan3d Posted February 1, 2013 Report Share Posted February 1, 2013 If you haven't seen it yet 11.5 has some very nice new features and it's free for 11.x owners! If you have 11.x go to lightwave3d.com/account to download it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member chris_solo Posted February 1, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted February 1, 2013 yeaAAAh!!! ++Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted February 1, 2013 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted February 1, 2013 Looks really good...however, I was expecting that they would have added TurbulenceFD in there, somehow (maybe a bundle or something), because it was mentioned on the forums after Siggraph, by their new marketing director (Spina?). Maybe LW12, when everyone has to pay for the upgrade. I'm sure they couldn't get it added in cheaply. Nonetheless, I think a lot of studios would see the value in moving much of their VFX pipeline to LW, if it was added. Why? Cause a lot are using 3ds Max + FumeFX ($3500 + $900 = $4400), if not Houdini. Then they will generally opt to go with VRay or finalRender (additional $1200). With all the Bullet dynamics and TFD + VPR, LW would have to be a tempting option for budget reasons alone. Granted the other options certainly have their own unique benefits, but the cost vs the output may not justify the extra thousands per seat. I'd like to see Rob offer something like a Lightwave Xtreme version with TFD and 3D Coat bundled with it...maybe creating some special hooks for 3DC that you can't get otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member geo_n Posted February 1, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted February 1, 2013 Probably right. Lw 11.5 already has so many features for free. The manual addendum is very long feature list. TFD will probably make an appearance in lw 12. One thing I really like about lightwave is its super stable. I feel confident using it for freelance work where its just me doing all troubleshooting and I know its not going to give me problems. I can't say the same from other software I've used in the same category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member geo_n Posted February 1, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted February 1, 2013 This has got to be one of the best lightwave version ever from newtek. And I'm usually very critical of lightwave. Reading through the manual and testing the different tools there's so many time saving features added. Besides the genoma rigging, ae zbrush app links, bullet, vpr enhancement, flocking and instancing and modelling tools enhancement, the two that got less focus is compositing buffer export's multi-channel exr and geocache multi-mdd loader. These two are so useful. I'm testing them with old projects that would have helped me speed up and streamline workflow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted February 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2013 I certainly wouldn't expect a third party plugin to be included with a free LW update. Maybe version 12 if you pre-order. They've done that a few times in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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