Max Underground: LightWave 3D 9.0 released

NewTek announced the availability of LightWave 3D 9.0. New features include a node-based materials editor, optically correct cameras and adaptive pixel subdivision which provides a variety of capabilities for displacement mapping, normal mapping and level-of-detail control at render time. Read the whole PR for more.

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Posted Thu Jul 13, 200620:54 PST by Pablo Hadis | Source:

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cool...autodesk should buy them.

Posted by: at July 14, 2006 01:32 PM

Autodesk turned them down a few years ago

Posted by: at July 15, 2006 12:44 PM

lw9 is pretty nifty...renders 2.5 times faster than lw8.5 or better..and now has node based [and layer] surface editing

Posted by: steve g at July 16, 2006 10:29 AM

>>renders 2.5 times faster than lw8.5 or better..

That is is probably because, until now, LW was lacking any spatial partitioning scheme found in almost all the raytracers out there.

I wonder if they would support mentalray....

Posted by: particlelife at July 17, 2006 04:13 PM