Newtek announces Lightwave 9.5 !

Publishing this press release on its website, NewTek Announces Fourth Major Update to LightWave 3D® v9.

LightWave v9.5 Update Includes:

Character Animation Enhancements
New Hair and Fur System
Enhanced IK and Animation Systems

• New Collada, FBX and OBJ I/O
• New IK Calculation Options for Faster Performance
• New Bone Type - Joints
• New Objective Options for IK
• IK/FK blending
• Multi-threaded Mesh Deformation Evaluation

Modeler

• UV Unwrap/UV Relax
• Symmetry Tolerance

Lighting, Rendering and Surfacing Enhancements
All New Lighting System

• New Light API
• IES Lights
• New Spherical Light
• Area and Linear Lights Enhanced

Renderer

• Faster Sampling System for GI
• Improved GI Quality
• New GI Controls to Customize the Render
• Disk-Based GI Cache

Node Editor Enhancements

• Interpolated Soft Reflections/Refractions
• Support for New Light API Functions
• Oren-Nayar Shading Option for Many Materials
• Optimizations for Materials and Shaders

SDK and LScript Improvements

• New Light Plug-in Class for third Party Lights and Light Plug-ins
• SDK Support for New GI Functions and Disk Cache
• SDK Support for New IK and Animation Capabilities
• Set Surface Properties Through the Surface Global

UI and Workflow Enhancements

• Enhanced Scene Limits
• Updated Scene File Format
• EXIF Metadata Support
• OpenGL GLSL Enhanced for New Lighting System
• Image Viewer Consolidation

Pricing and Availability
LightWave® v9 is available now at suggested retail price of $895US. LightWave v9.5 will be available as a free update to registered LightWave v9 owners. Registered owners of LightWave 3D® [8] or earlier are eligible to purchase an upgrade to LightWave v9 for $395US. For more information or to purchase, please visit www.lightwave3d.com or call NewTek Sales at 1-800-368-5441, for international inquiries dial +1-210-370-8000.