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Lightwave 3d 9.54/17/2023 ![]() ![]() For a first release I think it’s amazing, and with Jon on board developing this continously I believe it will have a bright future. Based on Jon’s FFIV plugin, but since they brought Jon on board, it has evolved to a completely new beast, integrated into LightWave. FiberFX, the brand new integrated Hair and Fur system.But my personal favorite additions that has kept me drooling through these months are: ![]() I won’t go through every new addition to 9.5 as the complete list is available in NewTek’s pressrelease. x release of LightWave ever (and could just as easily been labeled a x.0 instead) with all the new major additions and fixes. The 9.5 beta cycle has been the most interesting yet, the developers have been very responsive to input and suggestions for each beta release and the progress has been amazing through the months to the cool release it finally became. ![]() ![]() LightWave 9.5 has been in beta since February this year, so I have had around six months of time to play with this baby until now. A massive update to the core package of my pipeline! Lot’s of goodies in a short time.īut for me, the major event at Siggraph 2008 was the release of NewTek’s LightWave 3D version 9.5. And not to forget XSI 7, which is awesome, but comes with a hefty price tag, but I’ll keep my eyes on it in the future and might add it to my pipeline if I can justify the cost down the road. Also Luxology showed an interesting tech preview of the next Modo version, and the new BodyPaint version from Maxon looks interesting as well. Vue 7 and ZBrush 3.5 was announced and I’m looking forward to further information about these releases, especially the new ZBrush release, which I suspect will be awesome, once again! The new Mudbox version looked interesting, but didn’t convince me enough to try it out instead of ZBrush. The discussion on his plugins can be found here.Siggraph is over for this year, and as always there’s been plenty of announcements and releases within our industry this week. Collision meshes can be built by the normal procedure if those meshes are set to a smoothing group with a value of 180 degrees. Animated sequences do not work with Warmi's plugins on Lightwave 9.x. Warmi has since stopped updating his smd plugins for Lightwave (discontinued), and the current plugins work for Lightwave 9.x (tested 9.5), but only for exporting static meshes.
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