Comments on: The Future of Lightwave 3D

By: InfectedWound

InfectedWound — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:59:09 +0000

I agree. I’ve been a Lightwave user for 15 years, and have tried to wrap my head around Maya, but it’s been a struggle. I think the modelling tools in LW are far superior, and the render engine is second to none.

But, alas I’m afraid if or when core is released it means the end of LW as we know it. I saw some of the CORE demos, and it bares no resemblance to LW whatsoever. It’s all nodebased, and is more Maya-like than LW.

Good bye Lightwave, I’ll miss you.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:10:37 +0000

For the record, Autodesk is a public American company (NASDAQ: ADSK).
The Media and Entertainment Division is based in Montreal.

By: Sias Jordaan

Sias Jordaan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:24:21 +0000

I’ve been a Lightwave user for about 5 years. I used to be a Max user and now have to learn Maya for a job. I still don’t get what Maya and 3DSMAX have over Lightwave. Lightwave has the best artist friendly Sub Division modeler that works with dynamics, weight maps and morph targets. There’s no rubbish like modeling in low polys and then converting to sub-d or increasing the resolution. The hair/fur system is also instant and cusomizable. You also have to do very little to get ultra realistic renders. I find Maya’s interface and pointlessly complicated and unintuitive.

May Lightwave take over the world!!!

By: Conor MacCallan-Finkelman

Conor MacCallan-Finkelman — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:20:47 +0000

Why is it that C4D, Carrara and Blender are not capable of competing with the big four?

By: Bart Janssen

Bart Janssen — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:10:53 +0000

I think CORE looks very interesting. A nodebased program with an SDK that gives developers full acces to the program may result in new technical possibilities. Not only the Lightwave team may come up with new things but it should also be far easier to properly develop new tools for 3rd parties.

By: ALp

ALp — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:10:10 +0000

If the things really going to develop the way I imagine them, I do not think any of us will need to worry too much about LW’s future :) I am really excited about the Core :) and I hope we will all see what it can do soon enough :)

And for the Autodesk, you know the proverb right?
The bigger they are …
need I say more, folks? :)

By: Aiden

Aiden — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:35:53 +0000

Not sure what the DOJ can do. Autodesk is a Canadian company based out of Montreal.

By: Isaac Botkin

Isaac Botkin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:33:33 +0000

Yes, I missed the announcement because I was on the road (and driving where there was no mobile broadband) but apparently there was a considerable delay due to the unexpectedly high number of viewers, which bogged down Newtek.com and Ustream, the video site the announcement was played on. Slightly embarrassing, I imagine, but at least the outages were the result of too much interest and not too little preparation.

As for “propaganda,” I think it’s pretty safe to say that any new product announcement will consist almost entirely of information on why the product should be purchased by the consumer, and the interesting thing about purchasing a product is that it generally costs money. I’m sorry that you are disappointed in those points, Lightsource, but I’m excited, and will write more on Core later.

By: Lightsource

Lightsource — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:57:26 +0000

AT LAST hours after, the server is up again..
Just to see a page full with propaganda and full of new prices… :(

Pay pay pay..

By: Lightsource

Lightsource — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:09:45 +0000

Hahahhaha, ONE MOMENT………..

Why everybody has the same problems with countdown events??

COME ON!!!

We are waiting!!