LightWave® 3D 10 From NewTek
LightWave is the most complete 3D solution to model, animate and render, whether you're using Windows or Mac, 64 or 32-bit. Save time and money with 999 free render nodes that use multi-core CPUs, and enjoy free technical support seven days a week.
These days, with the creative process, artists need to move at maximum speed in order to tackle incredible deadlines, demanding work and high expectations. Using LightWave™, either exclusively or in a pipeline, makes it possible for an individual, a small team or a major facility to see their dreams and ideas come to life, with award-winning quality work, on time and on budget. LightWave artists all over the world say they can count on it for speed, flexibility, value and control.
LightWave is a complete 3D solution to model, render and animate. Used extensively in broadcast television production, film visual effects, video game development, print graphics and visualization, LightWave is responsible for more artists winning Emmy® Awards than any other 3D application.
LightWave 10 is the first release of LightWave 3D® to integrate NewTek’s CORE technology with enhanced Modeler and Layout. The three elements work in unison to give you the workflow and functionality you’re familiar with, along with the interactive power of the innovative CORE technologies. LightWave’s speed, flexibility, value and control are the benefits you count on and LightWave 10 delivers all that and more.
LightWave 10 benefits artists with unique features not found in any other 3D application, like Viewport Preview Rendering (VPR) and CG hardware enhancements that give you an immediate look at changes to your rendered scenes, and real-time OpenGL views of Ambient Occlusion, Bloom, Stereoscopic Anaglyph and HDRI background images. LightWave 10 delivers the power of Modeler and Layout with next generation CORE technologies, such as immersive real-time and game tools, Python-based expressions and scripting, Bullet rigid body dynamics and sophisticated UV mapping capabilities
LightWave 10 Special Offer
Get your claws on LightWave 10 now, through this special limited time offer. Breathe new life into your 3D pipeline today with access to VPR, interactive, real-time rendering; new OpenGL shading views; immersive virtual cinematography tools; Bullet rigid body dynamics; linear workflow; UV mapping tools and more.
For a limited time, LightWave upgrades are available for US $495 and LightWave full units for US $895. This special offer includes LightWave 10:
- Saving you hundreds of dollars off the regular upgrade or full version price of LightWave 10
- Guaranteed no price increase for the next five LightWave upgrades
- Immediate download of LightWave 10 preview builds
- Getting all LightWave information first, with access to an elite community (HardCORE) which includes interaction with LightWave development management and two to three exclusive software builds per year
- VIP invitations to special events
- Free DVD, LightWave 10 Rigging: Revealed, until LightWave 10 ships in Q4
NewTek LightWave 10 delivers a whole new set of groundbreaking tools for 3D artists. Whether you work alone or play well with others, LightWave 10 has the tools you need to turn your dreams into gorgeous graphics and amazing animation for film, television, print, design … or simply to satisfy your desire to create something really cool. LightWave 10 gives you more speed, flexibility and control, along with new, interactive tools that let you model, render and animate, quickly and affordably. Plus, LightWave artists have won more Emmy® Awards for visual effects and animation than any other CG artists. Now that’s cool.
LightWave 10 benefits artists with unique, new capabilities not found in any other 3D application, like instant feedback from the Viewport Preview Renderer (VPR), the precision of a complete Linear Color Space Workflow, real-time Anaglyph Stereoscopic Preview, and Virtual Studio Tools that deliver real-time virtual walkthroughs.
LightWave 10 Modeler and Layout, with an updated and refined user interface, deliver extensive new data interchange tools that provide seamless integration into multi-application pipelines. LightWave 10 also includes NewTek’s next generation
CORE technologies with real-time OpenGL views of Ambient Occlusion, Bloom and HDRI background images, Python-based expressions and scripting, Bullet rigid body dynamics, sophisticated UV mapping capabilities and much more.
LightWave 10 New Feature Benefits
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Interactive Display and Rendering Tools |
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Viewport Preview Renderer (VPR) - watch now |
See instant results with realistic view of scenes and objects with interactive light, nodal shading and scene set up |
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New CG Hardware real-time viewport shading enhancements - watch now |
Real-time OpenGL view of Ambient Occlusion, Bloom, Anaglyph Stereoscopic and HDRI background images |
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Linear Color Space Workflow - watch now |
Supports consistent gamma, color space, and custom Look Up Tables (LUTs) for more realistic lighting, and to maximize compositing flexibility in a professional pipeline |
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Data Interchange Enhancements | ||||
MDD with powerful new enhancements include support for Autodesk Geometry Cache |
Freedom to move deformations and transforms between applications allowing for an extremely flexible, extensible pipeline for animation, dynamics, effects, and rendering |
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FBX |
Load and save camera data, lighting, objects with UV maps and image maps, parenting hierarchies, etc. |
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COLLADA |
Easy transfer of camera data, lights, object placement, image maps, etc., from one application to another |
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Improved ZBrush Interchange |
Easy transfer and manipulation of UV maps from ZBrush |
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Improved OBJ UV Support |
Delivers the ability to import and export any number of UV maps |
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New Immersive, Real-Time and Game Tools |
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Support for the InterSense VCam virtual camera system used in feature film Virtual Art Departments (VAD) - watch now |
Gain a true “on location” experience through interaction with massive 3D scenes in real time with control of light placement and camera directly in your 3D application |
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Support for 3Dconnexion line of 3D mouse |
Move through the virtual world and interact with models and scenes controlling cameras and lights in real time |
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SpriteGen - watch now |
Automates creation of sprite animation images for real-time and game engines |
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Bullet Rigid Body Dynamics Integrated dynamics and simulation - watch now |
Create dynamics, calculations and simulations for effects such as collapsing buildings, breaking glass, etc. |
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UV Mapping Tools Transform, Scale Rotate, Move, Separate, Stitch, Relax, UV Unwrap |
Sophisticated tools for quick creation, editing and adjustment of UV maps to generate the best texture map layout for objects |
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