LightWave 3D 8.5 Upgrade with Manual

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Model: LW040001-0801

Shipping Weight: 5.00 lbs

Manufactured by: NewTek

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LightWave 3D 8 Upgrade from 6.x, 5.x and 4.x with Manual

The combination of the most complete professional toolset in the industry at the most affordable price makes NewTek's LightWave 3D the best choice for any 3D job anywhere. Designers and artists from Malaysia to Norway, U.S. to Australia, and everywhere in between are producing award-winning work and making a living with LightWave 3D. LightWave fits the bill for any size business from a one-person shop to Hollywood special effects titans with hundreds of animators on staff. Whether you are watching television, browsing the web, reading a magazine, taking in a new movie at the theater, or watching billboards and buildings go by on the highway on your way to work, you are encountering work produced or visualized using LightWave 3D.

"The things we find the most valuable about LightWave are the speed at which we can do our work and the well rounded tool set that it contains. It does everything that we need it to do and does it quickly."
- Steve Pugh, Visual Effects Producer, Eden FX

LightWave 8 adds a wide range of new character animation tools and dynamics to the robust modeling, animation and rendering capabilities that have made LightWave a leading production tool in film, broadcast, print, game development, and web development. Whether your need is for efficient production of long-form character animation or for compelling print images, for absolute photorealism or for startling surrealism, LightWave is your tool of choice.

Animals

Architectures

Broadcast Graphics

In the menu options at right, below the Solutions topic, you can explore how LightWave can meet your needs for Visual Effects, Motion Graphics, Game Development, Print Graphics, Independent Film, Architecture and Visualization, and New Media production. You'll hear from major users in the field how they have applied LightWave to achieve compelling, award-winning work and to bring that work in on time and on budget even with the most demanding production schedules and requirements.

Characters

Environments

Film

LAYOUT

More powerful and flexible character animation setup, controls, tools and workflow

New Bone Editing Tools

Enter Bone Edit Mode
Exit Bone Edit Mode
Joint Move
Tip Move
Bone Split
Bone Fuse
Bone Connect
Bone Twist
Align Pitch
Delete Bone
Unparent Bone
Bones On
Bones Off
Record Piv Rot
Remove RPR
Remove Pivot Pos
Delete Hierarchy
Copy Hierarchy
Mirror Hierarchy
Rename Hierarchy
Scale Hierarchy
Export Hierarchy
Import Hierarchy

Faster IK, FK

New Morph Mixer

JointMorph Plus

Dynamics

Rigid Body Dynamics

Improved Soft Body Dynamics

Improved Cloth Dynamics

Bone Dynamics

Improved Particle System Tools

Workflow

New Scene Editor with integrated Spreadsheet and Dope Sheet

Dope Track

Node-based Expression Editor

Envelope Contextual Menus

Move TCB

MultiMirror

Multi-selection of Texture Editor Layers

The Ever-Popular "And More!"

Animatable UV coordinates

Rendering Enhancements

MODELER

New Selection Modes

Select Loop

Select Poly

Select Outline

Select Ring

Invert Connected

New Layer Tools

Clone2 Layer

Insert Layer

Delete Layer

Object Collapser

New Modeling Tools

New Create Tab Tools

Star Sphere

New Modify Tab Tools

Translate Plus
Move Plus
Segment Scale
Point Normal Move

New Multiply Tab Tools

Cut
Divide
Make Pole
Extender Plus
SuperShift

New Construct Tab Tools

Bridge Tool

New Detail Tab Tools

Edge Tools
Fix Poles
Fix 3-5

New Setup Tab Tools

Rotate Skelegons

New Utilities Tab Tools

Create JointMorph

Encore for: The Ever-Popular "And More!"

OTHER ENHANCEMENTS

Inline Help System

Enhanced OpenGL

Speed and Workflow Optimizations

Incremental Saving and Autosaving

New File Formats

Integration Tools

Improvements to LScript scripting language and to the API

Games

Independent Design

Independent Film

SYSTEM REQUIERMENTS

Windows:

System Processor Pentium III or higher (Pentium IV recommended)

Operating System: 2000 (Sp3), XP (Sp1)

TCP/IP Network Protocol Installed

System RAM: 512 MB (1GB recommended)

230MB available harddrive space (not including content)

Graphics Card:

AGP slot interface

Full Open OpenGL and DirectX support

Latest drivers from chipset manufacturer

1024x768 minimum screen resolution (1280x1024 recommended)

64MB onboard dedicated RAM per display (128MB recommended)

Macintosh:

System configuration: G4 or higher (G5 recommended)

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3.3 (Panther)

System RAM: 512 MB for OS X (1GB recommended)

230MB available harddrive space (not including content)

Graphics Card:

Full OpenGL support

Latest drivers from chipset manufacturer

1024x768 minimum screen resolution (1280x1024 recommended)

64MB onboard dedicated RAM per display (128MB recommended)

Prints	Sci-fi	Special Effects
Television	Transportation	Visualizations

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