AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
NewTek recently announced the availability of LightWave 3D Version 9, with improved core strengths in its overall power and speed.
The release represents the first in a series of major rewrites and restructuring of LightWave 3D's core with the addition of many new features, such as a node-based materials editor that adds new shading models. Its adaptive pixel subdivision support offers film-quality displacement mapping, normal mapping (including Zbrush support), and LOD control at render time. Version 9 also sports Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces and sub-surface scattering, as well as increased render speeds due to the implementation of BSP/KD Tree Algorithm and a complete replacement of the original raytracing core for 2.5X speed ...