NewTek LightWave 3D 11 Full Version Add 1 Seat Educational Edition for Macs and PCs

NewTek LIGHTWAVE Features

• Instancing: Instancing lets you create mass duplication of objects in a scene, with very little overhead. Previously, you would simply run out of memory. Now, with the ability to have huge 'virtual' polygon counts, artists can populate their scenes with incredible detail
• Flocking: Use the Flock controller, which calculates crowd avoidance of neighbors, target alignment and cohesive attractions, to create realistic natural motions, with ease. These are the three elements of any flocking system
• Fracture: This new Modeler tool was designed specifically to compliment Bullet dynamics in LightWave Layout. It allows the artist to pre-fracture objects ready for destruction. There are a number of different methods and associated settings to fine tune the look of the pieces as they are broken up
• Bullet Dynamics: Bullet is a fast, production proven, open source physics engine that is used in many high profile, effects-driven films and real-time game engines. Bullet features 3D rigid body dynamics originally created by Erwin Coumans
• Virtual Studio Tools: The Virtual Studio Tools first made an appearance in LightWave 10, as a way of using third party controllers to animate items in your scene. LightWave 11 continues to expand on this concept by allowing more controller types, such as the affordable Playstation Move
• Interchange Tools: GoZ is an interchange technology from Pixologic, that allows applications to send model and texture data to and from ZBrush for sculpting detail on a base mesh. It has proved incredibly popular among many 3D artists
• Render Buffer Enhancements: Saving & viewing the various buffers produced by the render engine to make up an image, is now more powerful & much easier. The new Compositing Buffer Export panel now makes it possible to select which objects are to be included with the buffers you specify
• Python Scripting: Python is an industry standard programming language prevalent in most CG pipelines. The inclusion of Python in LightWave 11 allows even further integration of LightWave into studio pipelines, as those familiar with Python can quickly begin writing tools for LightWave
• FiberFX Enhancements: FiberFX now has a new volume rendering mode. "Stroke" is the original shading method for volumetric rendering. When set to "Solid," the user can apply shading and material like any normal surface
• User Interface Search: The list of available nodes can now be searched to find a specific node more quickly. There are also options for case-sensitive searching and flat list results. There is also a quick option to clear out a search and get back to the full list
• Adding Multiple Nodes: The addition of the node tree list means that multiple nodes can be added all at once, rather than one at a time. Simply select the nodes you need and click the Add Node button. Alternatively, click the first node, hold the Shift or Ctrl key double-click the last node
• Faster Access to the Morph Mixer Interface: The Morph Mixer plug-in is especially important for character animators, but was buried away in a large list of plug-ins. On the Object Properties panel under the 'Deform' tab, there is now a button to quickly add and access the Morph Mixer interface
• IK Evaluation Optimizations: Performance has been improved for the IK rigs to speed up character animation, allowing for easier and smoother posing while working. Also GLSL speed in Layout is improved
• Scene Loading Speed Optimizations: A huge speed boost has been added to Scene and Object loading, in some cases - 7x faster
• Modeler Optimizations & Enhancements: Multi-Layered Object is now much faster to work with than previous versions of Modeler
• Off-Axis Alignment: Items can now be modeled off-axis and automatically aligned to the origin. This allows details to be added, such as bolts or nurnies to be placed and aligned to a complex surface
• Shadow Catcher Node Material: Shadow Catcher allows comping of shadows and even reflections onto a background plate by rendering to an object that is modeled to match the 'real' ground in the background. The Shadow Catcher node then only renders the shadows and reflections of other scene items
• Print Render Utility: Working out how big to make your camera frame size for print has long been a question asked by many. And while the math is simple, its process is ripe for automation. The 'Print Assistant' utility in LightWave has been replaced with a much more fully featured version
• Unified Sampling: The sampling of anti-aliasing, shaders and lights has undergone a significant change to a more advanced unified sampling system. The result means better quality sampling, often at lower render times
• VPR Enhancements: VPR now allows the ability to select a surface by clicking on the object in the viewport, which then brings up the surface editor with the surface highlighted. This new functionality makes it much easier to make modifications to surfaces
• HyperVoxels Blending: The Metaball blending method for HyperVoxels has been re-implemented and can be used with all HyperVoxel types. Rather than just retaining the two former preset choices the implementation has been revised to allow for control of the algorithm
• OBJ I/O Enhancements: The OBJ file format is now more robust, supports a wider range of material tags and loads faster to optimize I/O with other external applications