Use any of the tools in Modeler to prepare a rig. Complete rigs for bipeds and quadrupeds are also easily customizable. These consist of skeletal parts like spines, wings, arms, legs, and hands and feet. The main engine for Genoma includes a large number of modular rig presets. Modifying a rig with Genoma is simple - use the powerful tools in Modeler instead of specialized rigging tools. With Genoma, the speed at which you can quickly rig a simple biped, quadruped or even a two-headed dragon is phenomenal. Genoma is a new modular instant rigging system in LightWave 11.5. Many enhancements to streamline and improve workflow Per Object control, speed and memory improvementsĪBF UV Unwrap, Edit Edges, Place Mesh, Slice, Thicken, Heat Shrink, Tweak, Transform, Axis and alignment tools and more 'GoZ style' After Effects interchange for Cameras, Lights, NULLs and animation LightWave 11.5 now supports ZBrush Fiber Meshes Multiple styles per object - stored with the object, new styling controls, updated UIīuilding on the robust GoZ support in LightWave 11. Predator / Prey behavior, new Director types and Node control Rolling Shutter camera effects are now possible to aid matching footage that has this effect presentĬontrol edge opacity, taper and color using nodes Several force types are now available within Bulletįast, modular instant rigging system for Modeler that includes presets for rapid-riggingĭepth-of-Field, Motion Blur and Anaglyph Stereo now visible in the renderer Soft body effects are now possible with Bullet, including cloth We did not do real time stuff for the most part.Dongles are no longer required to access the many features of LightWave Needless to say as i told him at the time Videotoaster was overkill for what we did and indeed he had more been sold on what LW could do than what Videotoaster could do. That’s when i got opted in to learn about LW to do the graphics.
Once we got it and set it up then he found out what LW was and why all those fancy things he saw at the presentation were done by it. He also funnily said to me, oh yes it comes with this other thing called LightWave, i’ve got no idea what it does and probably wont use it. He had seen a presentation in London and really liked the way it worked, its speed and the fact that you could create your own titles and animate them. Some big wig decided that Videotoaster was what we needed to do our presentations.
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My first real computer for 3d was an Amiga 1200, heady days and the first 3d software i brought was LightWave 5.6 if i recall. Funny talking about age but that computer had infrared mouse and keyboard or fibre optic connection, which was ahead of the competition, even Apple. My first 3d graphics were on an Apricot Computer in 1988, just wireframes, 6 colours at most all done in Basic. Of course compared to Blender it is seriously getting behind the curve now and Blender is free, so NT/vizRT/LWG3D have a long way to go. LW is never going to be Houdini, Maya or Max, but it still has capability. Then again maybe with the takeover by vizRT there are plans to bring LW back to where it should be a mid range 3d software that is good at motion graphics. Im not sure many would be interested in LW, maybe BlackMagic or indeed Rizom might be worth a look if they want to sell it. The modeler is very nice but the rest has some way to go now. I always thought that if i ever left LW for good i would switch to Modo, having kept up on current events i not so sure i would.
Modo still has not really delivered in all areas what Brad originally intended and now he has left Foundry who know what will happen. Layout is still very capable indeed even today, its modeler that has suffered the most in the last decade or so and its modeler that needs addressing to get LW back to where it should be. I think that’s where LW should be aimed at again, well in the beginning.
I would argue that C4D has probably replaced LW in this particular area, but its still an area much in demand. LW was never really an ophan in NT at all, it was created with a specific purpose that at the time dovetailed nicely into what NT and Videotoaster were doing, motion graphics for video, titles, set extensions, virtual studios and such and at the time it did it well.
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