Lightwave 3D 6.0

by NEWTEK INC.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00004NHMC
• Item model number: LW040190-0601
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,271 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Lightwave 3D 6 is a powerful animation-production package for professionals. It is built upon the fast, accurate 3-D Inverse Kinematics (IK) engine. With radiosity, caustics, subdivision surface animation, Skelegons, thousands of enhancements, and an unsurpassed workflow, LightWave 6 is everything you need in an animation system. With LightWave 6 you own a robust tool set for manipulating these revolutionary surfaces, including interactive modifiers that allow you to model in multiple "soft" modes. LightWave also allows you to sculpt "digital clay" by directly manipulating it at the vertex level, controlling groups of points or polygons with an extreme list of operators. Real-time subdivision surfaces, extensive texturing tools, character animation tools, HyperVoxels, and ray tracing are all incorporated into an extremely powerful animation system.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for any 3D artist, May 13, 2000

By 

D. Wetzel - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lightwave 3D 6.0 (CD-ROM)

This is the best 3d program out there for its price range. Sure there are many better programs out there, but you need a second or third mortgage to purchase them. There are so many improvements to v6 compared to the previous versions its mind boggling. I suggest checking out Newtek's home page for a detailed list. One thing that i noticed the most, is that it is much easier to use than its predicessor. Many functions have been simplified. There are numerous hotkeys added which save you a lot of time hunting around for a certain function. If you are serious about 3d, i really recommend this program!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yup, Newtek did it again., September 30, 2000

By 

Randy Wintjes (Nederland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lightwave 3D 6.0 (CD-ROM)

Amazing 3D animation software package. However you'll need an NT based Windows like NT4 or 2000. Many features like radiocity (indirect light reflection), Hyper Voxels, cartoon-alike render plug-ins etc. Modeler and scene creation are not in 1 application (thank god!) The price is relative low. Still wondering why TV series like star trek and movies use Lightwave ? :) Try it yourself. A must for 3D animators and fanatics.

Recommended system for optimal enjoyment : 450MHz cpu 128 MB RAM 32 MB video card

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Lightwave Upgrade to Date, November 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Lightwave 3D 6.0 (CD-ROM)

Newtek took it's time to deliver a substantial upgrade, but this baby was worth the wait. It would take a number of pages for me to list the improvements in detail so I will only list one crucial advancement. Simplicity for the EXPERIENCED LIGHTWAVE USER. However, if you are a beginner and rely upon the included manuals, I wish you luck. But then again, that's true with just about every version. If you are a beginner, I suggest taking a class, buying the video tutorials or surf the net for on-line tutorials from the professionals (some are better than others.)