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LightWave 3D 9.2 + SpeedEDIT Upgrade (from any version)(Printed Manual) Mac/Win

Upgrade and improve: Model | Animate | Render

NewTek, Inc., has announced LightWave v9. The new release is the first in a series of major rewrites and restructuring of LightWave 3D's core with the addition of comprehensive new features such as a node-based materials editor, optically correct cameras, adaptive pixel subdivision, Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces, sub-surface scattering and vast render speed improvements.

Product Features

Feature Highlights - Layout

• Rendering - Major Core Changes to the LightWave Rendering Engine Adaptive Subdivision
• Node Editor
• Node based Displacement
• Advanced Camera Tools
• Timewarp
• CCTV
• HV Deformer
• Stress Map
• Sketch
• Dissolve Ray
• Z-buffer improvements
• Realistic Fog
• 'Unaffected by Object' Alpha Channel mode
• Dynamics Improvements
• ParticleFX Improvements
• Hypervoxels Improvements
• IK Booster
• Pixie Dust
• Feature Highlights - Layout
• Animation/ Character Animation Relativity 2
• Sticky
• Proximity
• Quaternion Rotations
• Align to Path

Feature Highlights - Layout

• User Interface/ Workflow Improvement Mesh Editing
• List Manager
• OpenGL Improvements
• UI Configuration
• Visor
• File Format Support: Tiff importer
• Configuration Files
• Layout General and Display Options Redesigned
• New Render Status Panel
• Render Globals
• Deformation Evaluation Order Controls
• Load-From-Scene System Redesigned
• Scene Loading

Feature Highlights - Modeler

• Modeler Redesigned Subdivision Surface Core Engine
• Implementation of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces in Modeler
• Edge Selection (throughout Modeler)
• Edge Weights
• Multishift now operates across multiple layers

Feature Highlights - Modeler

• New Modeler Tools Center Pivot
• G-Toggle
• Set Sharpness
• Multishift

Feature Highlights - Modeler

• New LScripts Flip it/ Flip it fast
  
• Absolute Measure
  
• CutSwapPaste/CopySwapPaste
  
• Mirror X/ Mirror Y/ Mirror Z

System Specifications

General Requirements

• System RAM: 512 MB minimum requirement, 1 GB recommended
• Graphics Card: nVidia FX 5200 series (minimum) ATIFireGL V 5100 (minimum)
• Graphics support: Full OpenGL (OpenGL 2.0 support, or ARB_shading_language_100 OpenGL extension in earlier versions, required to use GLSL features)
• Driver: Latest from chipset manufacturer
• Dedicated Video RAM: 64 MB per display minimum requirement, 128 MB recommended
• Minimum Screen Resolution: 1024x768 minimum requirement, 1280x1024 recommended
• Hard Drive Space: 230 MB for program installation (not including content)

Windows® 32-Bit:

• Operating System: Windows® XP
• Processor: Intel® or AMD

Windows® 64-Bit:

• Operating System: Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition
• Processor: Intel® EM64T or AMD64
• RAM: 1 GB

Macintosh®:

• Operating System: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 Panther(TM)
  
• Processor: PowerPC® G4 minimum requirement, G5 recommended