3D Releases - Lightwave 10 announced at SIGGRAPH

[Mikala]

Not worried about ZBrush 4 either. From what I've seen so far it's a winner.

[mattc]

In related news, for those who saw the Ent Refit being used to demo LW10 and CORE, Bob was nice enough to allow Newtek to use it. Chuck passed on his thanks for that.

[JTech]

XD somthin kinda tells me if LW10 dosent pull anything new out its gona die. I mean look at how many script writers defected and went to Modo, and look how little the new lightwave has changed from the old.

[Mikala]

The "defection" is really old news and Lightwave/Newtek survived it.
It will be around for some time to come.

[John Marchant]

Yeah and ive noticed a few modo users jumping ship as well.

[Mikala]

Fickle lot those 3d people eh?

[Cageman]

Originally Posted by Meurig

Maya has had that feature since I first used it in version 5, what, 8 years ago?.

Mayas IPR is not even close to FPrime/VPR in terms of speed and itterative feedback. If it had been, why the need to create Rendition?

[Cageman]

Originally Posted by JTech

XD somthin kinda tells me if LW10 dosent pull anything new out its gona die. I mean look at how many script writers defected and went to Modo, and look how little the new lightwave has changed from the old.

Could you be more specific on what you are refering to?

When someone says "old" LightWave to me, I instantly think about pre LW9.x (LW8, 7, 6 and down back to 1).

There are plenty of third party scriptwriters releasing tools all over the place. Houdini Ocean Toolkit (not a script but very, very much the same thing as found in Houdini), litterally tons of uitilityscripts related to pipeline work etc not to mention DPKit, an insane collection of nodes to be used with both surfacing, displacements and motion.

My point here is that if you haven't used later versions of LW and taken a good deep look into it, you would not be aware of what is there and what it can do.

[CAClark]

LW10s real handicap is the uncomfortable and clumsy combination of Layout, Modeller AND Core, something that Newtek have said is not a short term setup.

Cheers!

[Gordon Robb]

I just wish they woukd step up and admit that this three app arrangements is a stop gap and not some fantastically well thought through strategy.

[infinityloop]

Anyone knows if there are more videos from siggraph, showing LW10?
I can just find this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhJauu_vB2A
Or was that all they had to show? :S

[Lewis]

Originally Posted by infinityloop

Or was that all they had to show? :S

No it's not all, you have more videos on their WEB page (who would think about that , heh ;D?)

http://tv.newtek.com/player_siggraph1.php

and you also can find plenty more videos here:
http://tv.newtek.com/library.php

just use "filter" sort by: Lightwave/Submit to get Lw videos listed only.

[infinityloop]

Originally Posted by Lewis

No it's not all, you have more videos on their WEB page (who would think about that , heh ;D?)

http://tv.newtek.com/player_siggraph1.php

and you also can find plenty more videos here:
http://tv.newtek.com/library.php

just use "filter" sort by: Lightwave/Submit to get Lw videos listed only.

*doh*
last time i checked newtek.com the link to siggraph videos was not there yet.

thanks!

[KeithC]

I'm looking forward to a familiar, yet less redundant toolset/UI. I also want to see if they're going to focus more on the game development industry, or let AD keep their dominance in that area. Won't be buying into LW10 anytime soon (so I'll be paying the higher price for the upgrade), but I'm rooting for NT...as I like the way they do business, far more than AD (although I may have to buckle someday and get a copy of Max...I'll do it grudgingly ).

-Keith

[Nail]

I'm not going to jump to conclusion just yet, I haven't touched LW for quite some time and really looking forward to play with LW10 demo.

[3dmp3]

Originally Posted by Andrew March

To be honest I think that it really would have to be a very special update and be an incredible value for money upgrade to even consider it.

With the economies on both side of the pond still struggling and many people finding it difficult to get work I think Newtek will struggle to acheive their sales targets.

I think that Newtek will manage to cover the gap after all