LightWave 3D is the perfect combination of power, speed and value. Easy to learn and
use and versatile enough for any application. LightWave is a complete modeling,
rendering and animation system used extensively in broadcast television production, film
visual effects, video game development, print graphics and visualization. LightWave
offers extensive platform support including, Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit and Mac.
LightWave also offers full support of systems with multi-core processors. In addition to
LightWave’s highly regarded photo-real render engine each license comes with 999 free
render nodes, making it the most affordable, efficient render pipeline option on the
market.

Layout:

Rendering
Major Core Changes to the LightWave Rendering Engine

• Adaptive Subdivision
• Node Editor
• Node based Displacement
• Advanced Camera Tools
• Timewarp
• CCTV
• HV Deformer
• Stress Map
• Sketch
• Dissolve Ray
• Z-buffer improvements
• Realistic Fog
• “Unaffected by Object” Alpha Channel mode
• Dynamics Improvements
• ParticleFX Improvements
• Hypervoxels Improvements
• IK Booster
• Pixie Dust

Animation/ Character Animation

• Relativity 2
• Sticky
• Proximity
• Quaternion Rotations
• Align to Path

User Interface/ Workflow Improvement

• Mesh Editing
• List Manager
• OpenGL Improvements
• UI Configuration
• Visor
• File Format Support: Tiff importer
• Configuration Files
• Layout General and Display Options Redesigned
• New Render Status Panel
• Render Globals
• Deformation Evaluation Order Controls
• Load-From-Scene System Redesigned
• Scene Loading

Modeler:

• Redesigned Subdivision Surface Core Engine
• Implementation of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces in Modeler
• Edge Selection (throughout Modeler)
• Edge Weights
• Multishift now operates across multiple layers

New Modeler Tools

• Center Pivot
• G-Toggle
• Set Sharpness
• Multishift

New LScripts

• Flip it/ Flip it fast
• Absolute Measure
• CutSwapPaste/CopySwapPaste
• Mirror X/ Mirror Y/ Mirror Z

SDK Improvements

Documentation Improvements