🧵 LightWave 3D is BACK
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Apr 2023 10:31:04 UTC No. 942456
Dear LightWave Community,
LightWave 3D is a proven, Emmy award-winning modelling, animation and render program, with a legion of followers and dedicated users such as yourselves. At Vizrt Group we have been looking for a home that offers the commitment and the enthusiasm it deserves.
With over 30 years in the animation and FX industry, Andrew Bishop and his team have now stepped forward to acquire LightWave 3D under the name LightWave Digital. Some of you may know Andrew from his VFX work and bringing LightWave 3D to UK and European market alongside handling distribution in the UK.
We did not make this decision lightly. The desire has always been to ensure LightWave 3D has a future with a team that has a strong desire to breathe new life into the technology, bring more value to users, and usher in the next generation of 3D graphics for film, animation, and VFX.
We are certain under this ownership; Andrew and his team will deliver this and more. As our transaction with Andrew and his team finalizes, more information will be shared.
For now, the new team can be contacted through this Discord channel here.
https://go.newtek.com/e/428312/invi
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Apr 2023 11:32:53 UTC No. 942462
Unless thy make it MIT licensed open source, I don't care. And maybe they're just preparing for a round of patent trolling.
3D Boomer at Sun, 9 Apr 2023 11:36:36 UTC No. 942464
No they won't.
They are just fans that don't want to let their loved 3D software die. It is a passion project, they are not in it for the money.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Apr 2023 14:34:44 UTC No. 942476
>>942456
I want Softimage.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Apr 2023 19:37:01 UTC No. 942497
You can't have Softimage.
The Autojew will never let you use the best 3D software ever made.
Softimage was a white men software.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Apr 2023 23:16:07 UTC No. 942520
LW is a chance for you to uncuck yourself from the blue hair communists (Blender) and the Autojews (Maya, 3DS). C4D are Nazis, hope Russia take care of them.
Why don't you try Lightwave? There is more stuff made with LW than all the other 3D software combined.
Anonymous at Mon, 10 Apr 2023 11:29:23 UTC No. 942561
I think your generation is not any good at 3DCG. You are used to pressing a magic button that does everything for you.
You can do amazing water simulation in Lightwave, but the feature is not called "Water Simulation" becauses LW is more flexible than that. So you may thinkg that LW cannot do that. But it can acually do more.
Anonymous at Mon, 10 Apr 2023 19:20:07 UTC No. 942582
>>942456
...whats so special about lightwave?
Anonymous at Mon, 10 Apr 2023 20:04:03 UTC No. 942583
It is the industry best kept secret. Or hidden gem.
Althoug it will get a well deserved refresh by the old new passionate team of programmers and fans.
It is the easiest 3D software to master and is probably the closest thing animation wise to Maya. It has a little bit of everything and is used in almost every tv shows and movies in one form or another.
You can expect big changes comming soon to LW this summer. it is no longer the greedy share holder vs users. The users and programmers took control of the software now.
Anonymous at Mon, 10 Apr 2023 20:11:17 UTC No. 942584
It will prbably be more affordable soon and they will add the necessary features to keep it competitive. It also has plenty of cool plugins.
Ccheck it in 1 or 2 months when the new team takover.
Anonymous at Mon, 10 Apr 2023 20:49:46 UTC No. 942588
>>942462
Are you a genius mathematician & programmer who wants to contribute or just a grubby gibsmedat thirdie?
Anonymous at Mon, 10 Apr 2023 22:49:23 UTC No. 942590
Just a user and a fan
Anonymous at Mon, 10 Apr 2023 23:24:21 UTC No. 942594
I only use lightwave on my amiga
Anonymous at Tue, 11 Apr 2023 01:26:42 UTC No. 942602
>>942520
>C4D are Nazis
wtf, I love C4D now
Anonymous at Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:13:44 UTC No. 942634
This place is for CG Larpers, that is why no one is using Lightwave.
Lightwave users have jobs and they work in the industry. So sad to see that there is no decent successors, only Blendlets.
Anonymous at Tue, 11 Apr 2023 19:25:02 UTC No. 942704
>>942456
... does the world rly need another, "better", "more awsome", "ultra uber" 3d software when there are already tons of applications! ...when software dies, it has a reason, and nostalgica doesnt cover how broken the ware is in its core!
...for sake of god, let the dead rest in peace!
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Apr 2023 11:53:05 UTC No. 942773
Lightwave is not dead, it never has been. They have transisitioned ownership twice in 3 years. Now they are finally in the hand of dedicated users (and studio). Everything will move faster for LW now that the big wigs are gone.
Share holders vs users is never a good thing. That is why Maya and 3DS Max have not imporved in 20 years.
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:15:14 UTC No. 942794
downloading
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Apr 2023 18:32:10 UTC No. 942800
>>942773
>They have transisitioned ownership twice in 3 years.
...this is the issue! whats when the new team loose drive, loose motivation, etc, because the product doesnt find any costumers, to much other hustle/ESG, diversity hires, women), and you as an enthusiastic user has invested a few hundred/thausand hours to build tools and stuff and the software dies again!?
continuity thats what user needs, not the best, most powerfull, cool gimmicks or some obscure legendary status of a once great application ....
... the application i use will be still available in 10 or 20 years and all invested time in the toolchain/pipeline will not be wasted ...
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:47:25 UTC No. 942847
Can you do that with with Blunder?
https://youtu.be/jlAe_tPw3mY
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:31:45 UTC No. 942982
We used Lightwave at our studio up until about three or four years ago. The writing was on the wall and it made no sense to keep moving forward with EOL software. Although I was never a LW fan, I can admit it had some good things going for it. It was very straightforward and to the point, it provided artist-friendly interfaces for a lot of its tools, and in general it was easy to get into and bang work out quickly. That was its strength IMO. But there were also a lot of infuriating things about it and performance was always a big problem with larger projects. I don't think Newtek ever had the money to fix some of the deeper-rooted issues with the software.
We moved to Maya, and even though I think it's a piece of shit, I have no desire to go back to LW. I think anon above is being a bit disingenuous when he says things like Lightwave is not dead, and studios are totally definitely still using it. It's great that someone is picking up development so that the LW die-hards that never moved on can continue using their favorite 3D application, but for 2023 it would take a monumental amount of work to get it to be competitive with the likes of Houdini, Maya, Blender, etc.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 May 2023 08:31:15 UTC No. 944791
Umemaro and Shirow Masamune use Lightwave so it seems pretty based.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 May 2023 13:37:28 UTC No. 944803
>>942520
Where does that make Modo? Other than Foundry's unloved ginger stepchild.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 May 2023 13:50:11 UTC No. 944805
>>944803
What does that make...
Anonymous at Thu, 4 May 2023 10:31:27 UTC No. 944944
Lightwave 2023 will be anounced today 16:00
www.lightwave3d.com
Fallow on Discord
https://go.newtek.com/e/428312/invi
Anonymous at Thu, 4 May 2023 21:06:30 UTC No. 944991
>>942582
The install is only 16mb.
Anonymous at Sun, 7 May 2023 15:33:38 UTC No. 945314
Password for the new website is :
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Anonymous at Thu, 11 May 2023 03:49:47 UTC No. 945609
So what did they annouce at their stream, what's their business model now?
>>944803
Modo is a shitshow, it could have been nice if they marketed it as a purely modeling/product design suite but they didn't even try
I wish its falloffs and a few of its unique fast and useable features were somewhere else
>>945314
Doesn't work
Anonymous at Thu, 11 May 2023 14:40:19 UTC No. 945630
>>942583
how does this compare to something likes blender?