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NewTek shines with LightWave 9.(PRODUCTS: MODELING--ANIMATION)(Brief article)

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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 ...

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