Tenemos desde hace unos días ya disponible la nueva versión de Lightwave: Lightwave 9.5, que incluye algunas mejoras respecto a la anterior que pasamos a citar:
LightWave v9.5 Update Includes:
Character Animation Enhancements
- Hair and Fur System
- Collada, FBX and OBJ I/O support
- Enhanced IK and Animation Systems
Lighting, Rendering and Surfacing Enhancements
- Lighting System is now an API
- IES, Spherical and Dome Light types
- Enhanced Area and Linear Lights
- Faster and higher quality GI Rendering
- Disk-Based GI Caching
- Static Cache (only the Camera moves)
- Animated Cache (anything moves)
- Interpolated Soft Reflections/Refractions for Node-base surfacing
- Oren-Nayar Shading Option for Many Materials
- Optimized Materials and Shaders
SDK and LScript Improvements
- Light Plug-in Class for Third Party Lights and Light Plug-ins
- SDK Support for New GI Functions and Disk Cache
- SDK Support for New IK and Animation Capabilities
UI and Workflow Enhancements
- Composition Tool Overlays in Camera View
- OpenGL GLSL Enhanced View for New Lighting System
- Audio Waveform in the Graph Editor
Enlace | Lightwave 9