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Software Description:
LightWave is the backbone of efficient 3Dpipelines. Groundbreaking. Innovative. Proprietary. Whether youwork alone or play well with others, LightWave is integrative andimmersive.
LightWave gives 3D artists advancements that deliver robuststereoscopic camera rig and VPR functionality. With LightWave, youcan easily create your own customized graphics and amazinganimations. LightWave is super fast and ultra flexible.
Here are some key features of “LightWave 3D”:
Instancing:
– Instancing lets you create mass duplication of objects in ascene, with very little overhead. Previously, you would simply runout of memory. Now, with the ability to have huge ‘virtual’ polygoncounts, artists can populate their scenes with incredible detail,and yet retain reasonable render times.
– While instances can be thought of as clones of the originalsource objects, they don’t need to look identical. They can berandomly scaled, positioned, rotated and even surfaced completelydifferent from the source. This means you can use instancing forany number of uses.
Flocking:
– Use the Flock controller, which calculates crowd avoidance ofneighbors, target alignment, and cohesive attractions, to createrealistic natural motions, with ease.These are the three elementsof any flocking system.
Fracture:
– This new Modeler tool was designed specifically to complimentBullet dynamics in LightWave Layout. It allows the artist topre-fracture objects ready for destruction.
– There are a number of different methods and associated settingsto fine tune the look of the pieces as they are broken up. You alsohave the ability to create an Endomorph of the resulting fracture,which means you can animate the explosion, with or without usingdynamics.
– Weight maps can also be applied to the source object to controlthe density of where the fracturing takes place, making Fracture aflexible tool for creating breaking objects in LightWave.
Bullet Dynamics:
– Bullet is a fast, production proven, open source physics enginethat is used in many high profile, effects-driven films andreal-time game engines. Bullet features 3D rigid body dynamicsoriginally created by Erwin Coumans.
– LightWave features the Bullet dynamics engine directly in Layoutso that it can be used with the new Fracture tool in Modeler tocreate compelling physics-based animation. Things like collapsingbuildings, explosions, and even natural placement of items in arandom pattern, would otherwise be difficult to do by hand.
Virtual Studio Tools:
– The Virtual Studio Tools first made an appearance in LightWave10, as a way of using third party controllers to animate items inyour scene.
Interchange Tools:
– The GoZ implementation in LightWave Layout and Modeler is robustand fully featured. It allows you to exchange model data, alongwith all the associated texture maps. The Modeler implementationeven lets you use ZBrush for sculpting Endomorphs for things likefacial morphs.
Render Buffer Enhancements:
– Saving and viewing the various buffers produced by the renderengine to make up an image, is now more powerful and much easier inLightWave.
Python Scripting:
– Python is an industry standard programming language prevalent inmost CG pipelines. The inclusion of Python in LightWave allows evenfurther integration of LightWave into studio pipelines, as thosefamiliar with Python can quickly begin writing tools forLightWave.
FiberFX Enhancements:
– FiberFX now has a new volume rendering mode. “Stroke” is theoriginal shading method for volumetric rendering. When set to“Solid,” the user can apply shading and material like any normalsurface. This lets you create very complex looking fibers, easily,and perform parametric cylinder rendering of the fibers.
Installer Size: 936 MB
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