Lightwave 9.5

#21

Ohhhhh… I will try that now. Well, I’m glad I didn’t know, otherwize I would have never messed with Blender. Thanks!

#22

looking forward to early march to finally get my hands on this 9.5 feature list and give it a shake to see if the goodies are production worthy as i’m hoping they will be.

#23

If all goes to plan, I would dare to say that this is one of the most significant upgrades in Lightwave history.

Good job guys.
-R

#24

Definitely :thumbsup: the 9.X version could be the best LW ever

#25

To heck with March, let’s start beta testing now!!

March is overated anyway with all the rain and muck. February has a much better ring to it.

#26

Hey! My birthday is in March! March 1st actually, so this will be a great belated gift.

#27

kia ora! and Mahalo Nui Loa :slight_smile:

#28

Yeaaaah ! This made my day :slight_smile: Very exciting news. Go Newtek !

#29

I also hope for a native Direct X (.x) exporter that accurately exports animation and texture data so it can be used in game creation programs like XNA game studio, Dark Basic, Blitz 3D

#30

this release sounds great ! excited about CA enhancements and hair. :slight_smile:
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#31

Now I hope they say, Buy 9.5 now and get a FREE upgrade to 10

#32

Arguably this is at least a $300 value upgrade - for free. Very, very nice. I feel the LW love again!

#33

Actually they probably will say that, but not until 10 is near release. That’s how I got my free upgrade to 8.0

#34

Yup, they’ve pretty much done the same for a long while.
Also, lest ye forget, they also normally allow an upgrade from a much older version of LW to the latest at the same upgrade price. :thumbsup:

#35

also let us not forget this will be ther second major FREE point update within the 9.x cycle
for lightwave…we already have a NEW renderer with final gather, photoreal motion blur which you can see in the open gl viewport, new cameras including the perspective camera and the real lens database cameras too plus all the other goodies.

yeah lightwave is/was playing catchup in features compared to max, xsi, maya but looking over to recent releases for thoses app this for lightwave is like having a couple of major realeses for free.

with all the past negative thoughts on the future of lightwave at this early pre open beta the future for lightwave is looking much brighter now…all i’m waiting to see is what are the new and improved character animation and rigging tools in 9.5 all about.

ie ik and fk plus the ‘joints’ they refer to in their press release.

#36

im sure there will be no offer like get 9 now and 10 free since i smell like 10 is gonna be BOMB…

#37

you mean ‘‘earth shattering’’ or ‘‘explosive’’…or ‘‘ground shaking’’

‘‘boomtastic’’ maybe!

:smiley:

#38

WOW CA updates !! … Amazing !! Looking forward to seeing them in Actions :bounce:

#39

I have to agree wholeheartedly!

My first real 3D application was Lightwave (I had lusted for LW for years while using Animation Master and trueSpace!) - even purchased Inspire3D but was devastated because most LW tutes used the Knife tool which I3D didn’t have and couldn’t properly follow along!

I didn’t think I’d invest further in LW after v9 since I have so many other apps but I’m glad to see that v9 investment is still paying off in a nice way!

Certainly can’t wait to see what v10 will have in store…

-Will

#40

Was there a Catmull update/ fix ?