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New pricing here to stay, but not necessarily the annual releases Powers says that more new features will be announced in the run up to the release, with more information due later this week. “Our goal for integration is to do it … with an awareness of the strengths of the current workflow. “What we are doing is really nothing like CORE ,” he added. Powers commented that the work “will be an ongoing process” but that NewTek’s current development focus is to “blow the doors off past limitations that frustrated users”. “Our goal has been to ensure … that LightWave will have the most modern architecture of any major 3D application driving it under the hood.”
“From the architectural standpoint, we have already made such amazing progress that … I can personally hardly wait ,” he wrote. In addition, Powers noted that integration of Modeler and Layout, the two separate applications into which LightWave is currently divided, is “most definitely” moving forward.
Integration of Modeler and Layout moving forward
#LIGHTWAVE 2015 FOR MAC SKIN#
So far, NewTek hasn’t released any hard information about performance, but says that it is “very, very pleased with the render speed tests which we have been conducting with other comparable render engines”.Īnother early test image from LightWave’s new render engine, showing the new skin shader. Complete new GI, materials, and lights are part of this new system as well.” “When I say it will begin a new era for LightWave innovation, I am serious about that.”Īt the minute, the only confirmed new feature is a new volumetric and PBR rendering engine, test renders from which can be seen in a separate thread on NewTek’s forum.Īccording to Powers, “This is not some form of reworking of the old render engine but an entirely new physically based … engine. “Trust me, that is a release that you don’t want to miss out on,” he wrote. The same forum thread also offers a few clues as to the new features in the next release of the software, with Rob Powers, president of NewTek’s LightWave 3D Group, hinting that it will be a major update. Update: the closing date has now been extended to 15 October 2015. However, you’ll have to be quick: that particular offer only runs until today, 30 September 2015. In addition, NewTek is offering a time-limited discount to anyone upgrading to LightWave 2015 before the new pricing comes into effect – $295 for (post)-charter members, $395 for everyone else.
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That guaranteed pricing is actually higher than the $295 it will now cost to upgrade from the current version, but NewTek says that (post)-charter members will “continue to receive exclusive special offers in the future”. At present, an upgrade from any previous version costs $495, so the new pricing rewards users who stay current.Ĭharter and post-charter memberships remain in forceĬharter and post-charter members – those who signed up for NewTek’s now-discontinued CORE development initiative – retain their existing guaranteed pricing for future releases.
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The cost of an upgrade becomes $295 if you’re using the current version of the software $795 if you aren’t. As of the next release, a new licence of LightWave will cost $1,195: up $200 from the current price – although still lower than the price prior to LightWave 2015. Most of the information below comes from a long, and initially quite confusing, thread on the NewTek forum, but we think we’ve picked out all of the important details.Ĭost of new licences up, cost of upgrades down – kind ofįirst up, the new pricing.
#LIGHTWAVE 2015 FOR MAC PLUS#
NewTek has announced new pricing for LightWave, plus a few details of the new features in the next release of the software, and of its long-term development plans. NewTek has also announced new long-term pricing for the 3D modelling and animation software. An early test render generated with the new volumetric and PBR render engine due in the next release of LightWave.
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