via Flay: FPrime, an external rendering engine for Lightwave 3d, has been updated to version 3.2. A number of fixes and updates are in there including better LW 9.3.1 compatability, reversed motion blur, voxel support and a host of others improvements.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
FPrime updated to version 3.2
Monday, February 25, 2008
Ratatouille Oscar winner!
The Academy Awards 2008 confirms the popular voices who said Ratatouille the Oscar winner as Best Animated Feature Film.
I agree, great movie! :)
Newtek announces Lightwave 9.5 !
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
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.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Top 10 Usability Guidelines for Enterprise Applications
Top 10 Usability Guidelines for Games
These guidelines can be used for mobile game development and programming but also for web ad advergames.
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