NewTek公司开发的LightWave 3D是一款高性价比的三维动画制作软件,它的功能非常强大,是业界为数不多的几款重量级三维动画软件之一。
广泛应用在电影、电视、游戏、网页、广告、印刷、动画等各领域。
它的操作简便，易学易用，在生物建模和角色动画方面功能异常强大；基于光线跟踪、光能传递等技术的渲染模块，令它的渲染品质几尽完美。
它以其优异性能倍受影视特效制作公司和游戏开发商的青睐。
当年火爆一时的好莱坞大片《TITANIC》中细致逼真的船体模型、《RED PLANET》中的电影特效以及《恐龙危机2》、《生化危机-代号维洛尼卡》等许多经典游戏均由LightWave 3D开发制作完成。
File size: 276 MBLightWave 2018 – powerful, intuitive, streamlined, proven.
When time is short and the job impossible, LightWave 2018 simply delivers.
Workflow enhancements and powerful new tools solve your animation and design challenges and streamline your creative process.
Direct and robust, LightWave 2018 serves the artist first, for visual effects, motion graphics, game development, architectural visualization, product design and advertising.
LightWave 2018 New Features:Physically Based Rendering SystemLightWave 2018 features a completely re-written shading, lighting and rendering architecture.
The new PBR engine allows you to create images with greater realism and accuracy, yet remains intuitive to use.
Render & Light BuffersTo complement the new shading engine, render buffers for shading have been overhauled to deliver more flexibility and power for working with compositing.
LightWave 2018 features new light buffers for breaking out lights and custom buffers that allow you to create any type of render buffer using the power of the node editor, including real-time preview of new buffers in any viewport using VPR.
New Volumetric EngineUsing the new volumetric engine and primitives, you can specify physically based properties for your clouds and fog.
These include, Scattering, Absorption, and Emission parameters, along with the use of powerful node networks to control all parameters.
OpenVDB SupportNew support for the Academy Award-winning OpenVDB library for volumetric data interchange.
OpenVDB allows volumetric simulations from other 3D software such as Houdini® or Maya® to be imported and rendered in LightWave using the new volumetric engine.
New Lighting ArchitectureThe new lighting architecture brings physical lights that can be optionally visible to the camera.
Primitive lights turn any geometry or primitive object into a physical light.
Portal lights aid interior rendering.
Environment light gives the look of Global Illumination without the render time.
In addition, there is improved loading of IES web files which allow closer matching to the intensity of real manufactured lights.
New Surface Editor, Material Nodes & Surface PreviewThe Surface Editor has been overhauled for the new shading system with powerful node-based materials under the hood that are presented with a familiar interface including an enhanced Surface Preview feature.
New Virtual Reality CameraCreate stunning virtual reality content using the new VR camera: includes both cylindrical and spherical modes with stereoscopic support.
Ideal for creating stereo 360-degree renders and animations for VR applications or even to create your own HDR lighting probes.
New Modifier Stack & Nodal ModifiersUnlocks and simplifies the previously fixed order of operations for Bones, Morphs, Subdivision and Displacements.
Drag and drop to re-order mesh deformations interactively.
New Cel Shader & Enhanced Edge RenderingOffers flexible non-photoreal render control over material shading and allows gradient-based cel shading, while Edge Rendering can now use any material available in the Surface Editor to shade any line.
Improved FiberFX IntegrationFibers are now generated using the new primitive object architecture.
FiberFX is expanded to integrate closely with the new lighting and shading system and can use any material on the fibers.
New Layout-based Parametric ShapesParametric shapes allow you to create virtual primitive shapes in Layout that can be displaced, surfaced and rendered without needing any geometry or the memory overhead that comes with highly sub-divided geometry.
New Physically Based OpenGLExperience impressive real-time visual feedback with the enhanced PBR OpenGL system which includes added support for the new physically based materials, awareness of light exclusions, respect for light Specular / Diffuse toggles, and an accurate real-time representation of the new cel shader.
Noise Reduction FilterSpeeds up render times by using less Global Illumination rays and shading samples, while allowing for clean up of the resulting noise using the NR filter instead of increased render settings.
New Modeler FeaturesA ‘Layout View’ viewport shows the current camera view from Layout.
In addition, LightWave 2018 Modeler provides new fully interactive tools including Lattice, Smoothing, Array and Spline Bridge to speed up your modeling.
Workflow Enhancements• UDIM Support • Per-Object Interpolated / Brute Force • Floating Viewports • Render Presets • Preview Render Pass • Multi-Selection Editing of Modifiers • Improved Render Progress View • Fixed Autokey Mode • Improved Layer Tools in Modeler • Proportional Scaling in Layout • Image Viewer RGBA Channel Toggle • Image Viewer / VPR Normalize Display Toggle • Viewport Numeric Readout for Move and Scale • Preset Shelf Improvements • New Network Render ControllerSystem Specifications:Intel® Core™ 2 or AMD Athlon™ II Processor (or better)64-bit System RAM: 4GB minimumAvailable USB Port (for users with existing hardware dongles)64-bit: Windows 7 through Windows 10 64-bit EditionWhats New:Updates: official site does not provide any info about changes in this version.
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