LIGHTWAVE 11.5 IS HERE!!!!

LIGHTWAVE 11.5 IS HERE!!!
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LIGHTWAVE 11.5 YA ESTÁ AQUÍ!!!

Dongle-Free Licensing	Dongles are no longer required to access the many features of LightWave
Bullet Soft Body Dynamics	Soft body effects are now possible with Bullet, including cloth
Bullet Forces	Several force types are now available within Bullet
Genoma	Fast, modular instant rigging system for Modeler that includes presets for rapid-rigging
VPR Update	Depth-of-Field, Motion Blur and Anaglyph Stereo now visible in the renderer
Rolling Shutter	Rolling Shutter camera effects are now possible to aid matching footage that has this effect present
Edge Rendering Node Control	Control edge opacity, taper and color using nodes
Flocking Update	Predator / Prey behavior, new Director types and Node control
FiberFX Update	Multiple styles per object - stored with the object, new styling controls, updated UI
GoZ™ Fiber Mesh™ Support	Building on the robust GoZ support in LightWave 11. LightWave 11.5 now supports ZBrush Fiber Meshes
Adobe™ After Effects™ Support	'GoZ style' After Effects interchange for Cameras, Lights, NULLs and animation
Instancing Update	Per Object control, speed and memory improvements
Modeler Tools Update	ABF UV Unwrap, Edit Edges, Place Mesh, Slice, Thicken, Heat Shrink, Tweak, Transform, Axis and alignment tools and more
Workflow Enhancements	Many enhancements to streamline and improve workflow

THE RAVEN

LIGHTWAVE 11.5 Feature Release Video

Workflow demo: Tracking and Compositing the Captain's eyepatch

Tears Of Steel - Official VFX Breakdown

Blender VFX Breakdown 02

FiberFX and Bullet in LightWave11.5

Thanks to Lino Grandi for sharing

LW CLASSICS: Plants with Eyes

by PassionPictures (long time ago)

COPY-PASTE WEIGHTMAPS

Three ways to copy-paste weightmaps
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Tres maneras de copiar pegar weightmaps

Ta BG Morph-n-weight copy by Timothy Albee (commercial)

Copyweightmap by Nitisara
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mn_drainbgvmap

Lightwave test - Unigon Miltered

by Erikalst

LW inside: Mockingbird Lane

The Return of the Cobra - A LW short Film

LIGHTWAVE & ARNOLD

LWtoA IPR new functions from juanjgon on Vimeo.

LWtoA stereo rendering workflow from juanjgon on Vimeo.


Juan J. Gonzalez at Lightwave Newtek Forums:

"Hello Folks,

Maybe some of you have seen a video that I have made about animated mandelbulbs that use Lightwave 11 as host app and Arnold as render engine. I want to say that yes, this video was rendered with Arndol using my own Arnold plugin, a project that I call LWtoA. I want to add some facts about it ...

- LWtoA is a custom plugin that integrate Arnold seamless inside Layout 11, with near all features suported by Arnold, including for example interactive rendering, all Arnold shading nodes, all Arnold lights, etc. The plugin is near to be features complete, and it is also near to be as complete as oficial Solid Angle plugin for Maya or Softtimage.

- LWtoA is a personal project, it is not developed by Solid Angle and they don't support it. Of course Solid Angle team is aware about the project, but LWtoA is a personal project not designed by Solid Angle. Please don't ask them about this project.

- LWtoA is not going to be available at the moment. It is going to be available when Arnold leaves the closed beta state, and of course at this point it will need a long beta testing stage. As you know Arnold is currently only available for big studios.

Have fun and feel free to ask any question about LWtoA ... remember that Arnold is in closed beta under NDA and I can't talk about any details of engine itself

https://vimeo.com/40443058
https://vimeo.com/40720491
https://vimeo.com/43833275
https://vimeo.com/51129309

-Juanjo"
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Juan J Gonzalez en los foros de LW de Newtek comenta sus pruebas con Arnold en LW. Por supuesto no está disponible para testar pero es un ejemplo de qué se puede conseguir con LW y Arnold :)