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NEWS • Aug. 14, 2001
NewTek Ships LightWave [7]
Latest release gets hundreds of new features
by
John Virata
Producer
NewTek announced and shipped LightWave [7] late yesterday evening. LightWave [7] is a major upgrade to NewTek's professional 3D software. With hundreds of new features, plus significant improvements in the entire product's speed and stability, this major upgrade comes as a result of many development and beta test hours. NewTek announced that the product is available immediately for both the Mac (OS 9 and OS X) and Windows platforms.
LightWave [7] includes hundreds of new features, including the following: - Motion Mixer for non-linear animation
- Sasquatch Lite for built-in hair, fur and landscape creation and rendering
- Sprites mode within HyperVoxels, which can now be seen in OpenGL in Layout
- Digital Confusion, a new depth of field filter
- SkyTracer 2 for universally accurate sun positions and sky creation
- Combination Move / Rotate tool within Modeler
- Soft reflections and refractions
- Spreadsheet-style scene editor
- Voxel Baking for advanced smoke and liquid effects without extensive render times
- Airbrushing between morphs
- Several new Light options
- Rail Modeling tools for interactive scale, rotate and stretch
- Particle FX enhancements, including simple crowd simulation, fluid dynamics, interparticle collision and new nozzle types
- Squash and Stretch tools in Layout
- Speed and workflow enhancements
LightWave [7] is available immediately for a suggested retail price of $2,495. LightWave [7] is available for Macintosh OS 9 and OS X native and Windows. For more information, visit http://www.newtek.com or http://www.lightwave3d.com.
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