I don’t buy that blog link. If it’s a membership thing, why did they show screenshots of a program that looked like LightWave and was called “LightWave Thor”?
NewTek CORE discussion and information
Veehoy
#203
Guess some poor schmoe just lost his/her job.
Looks like they never heard of “Plan B”, just “Plan 9 from Outer Space”…jeez, talk about crash and burn :argh:
geothefaust
#204
Yeah, that blog is a farce. It’s NOT real. It’s someone using their leverage to anger the masses.
biliousfrog
#205
I suspect that they judging how badly this whole ‘hardcore’ membership plan is going to go down before sticking their head over the trenches
scott8933
#206
At least this got me to almost 100 posts over here.
My biggest fear, LW 10 will be just like Electric Image’s semi-annual upgrades: Same old program, same old interface, couple new features buried somewhere…
And of course, I’ll continue handing over my money to both companies just out of sheer loyalty and the refusal to buy anything Maxon or Autodesk.
beverins
#208
Looks like they’re aping E-On’s pricing scheme… only without the insane pricing… Well, not as insane as E-On. ILM’s endorsement has really gone to E-ON Software’s collective heads.
adamredwoods
#209
It also said that NewTek Core is going to be released THIS YEAR, so the “HardCORE” membership would just be a money/hype thing. Still banging the servers for me info…
RIP2004
#210
What I’ve read somewhere else (out of a chat, as it seems):
LightWave CORE is an object oriented framework, written in C++.
It is powerful. LightWave CORE was written from the ground up to leverage the modern computing landscape and beyond. It works great in 32 bit, and is a monster in 64 bit. It is fully multi-threaded, multi-processor and GPU aware.
LightWave CORE is multi-platform. LightWave CORE operates under all modern Windows flavors, from XP to 7, from 32 to 64. LightWave CORE is also a Macintosh COCOA application, and last, but certainly not least, linux.
LightWave CORE is flexible, and extensible. Any component created via the CORE SDK can install and become available to any other portion of the application.
LightWave CORE is built upon the concept of FULL ACCESS. CORE is developed with the same SDK that third parties will use.
LightWave CORE leverages industry standards wherever possible. We have built the SDK and framework with C++; we have build the UI toolkit upon the industry standard Qt Toolkit from TrollTech/Nokia. We have chosen Python as the CORE language, but other languages can be added via SWIG bindings. The LightWave CORE scene file format is based upon COLLADA.
LightWave CORE is unified. All functionality is under one roof; you want to model and animate together? Go ahead. You want to model separately as before? You can do that to.
LightWave CORE is the best of what LightWave is known for: ease of use, fantastic rendering quality and speed, and a great modeling environment.
Dennik
#212
ok personally the last thing I want to hear before I see ANY product, is a membership price ON MY FACE.
Alliante
#214
From what the blog reads, it appears that the upgrade is inclusive to current 9.x users. The $695 is the upgrade price at release.
Mindful_One
#215
The one factor that makes LW so good is that there are no clubs for support.
It was affordable, and good.
:curious:
mav3rick
#217
i have no problems with membership since every company now go that way … autodesk joined last year
phamarus
#218
not sure…but it might have happened this very moment…skynet has taken control and we are not far from judgement day:)…
it became selfaware when the clock reached 0:00:00 and then very aware of us
nerds watching this and shutting everything down.
Michael
webhead
#219
I expected a glitch. Seems there’s always a glitch with these live streaming events. Always.
wiremuse
#220
I’ll pass on that invitation but I’ll be happy to watch sure beats a Off Air message and stationary logo.