Thanks to NDI, the link is established automatically through discovery. The headline tool for 2019 is the introduction of the Unreal Bridge, and it is a uniquely NewTekian approach based on Newtek’s NDI (network discovery interface) to enable real-time data transfer to the Unreal Engine. However, they’ve been begging for upgrades to rendering and the addition to denoising and the significant upgrades in the 2018 version have made the renderer faster, and more capable. There will be some grouchiness about this from some quarters, partially because grouchiness has become habitual in Lightwave 3D users. This year at least NewTek has added support for Optix denoising, which is tied to an Nvidia card. At least, the rendering tools were substantially updated, but NewTek has put all its efforts into the native renderer and users are longing for options. When Lightwave 3D 2018 came out, it was a relief for users: at least, there still was a Lightwave 3D but many were outraged they had no new product since Lightwave 3D 2015 and the weird structure of the product with separate environments for modeling, rendering, and layout persisted. And that’s what the company did, but they also added new features that bring Lightwave a little closer to parity with competitive products. LightWave 3D 2019, therefore, didn’t have to do anything, just be there in January and the user community would be amazed. Veterans have noted that the company tends to get mired in releasing large point releases instead of complete upgrades. Worse, the company tends to communicate with users in fits and starts, promising great new features, and then wandering off into silence.
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To anyone who hasn’t covered the trials and tribulations of LightWave that doesn’t seem like big news, but the company has famously struggled to upgrade LightWave in reasonable amounts of time. Last year, NewTek released Lightwave 2018 this year, the company released LightWave 2019. Additionally, LightWave 2018 includes new enhancements to the Viewport Preview Renderer (VPR) and introduces many additional new features and improvements such UDIM texture support, more supported presets, FiberFX, Unity 5 support, and more.Features include Bridge for Unreal LW opts for Optix some undo is done.
Also new are fully interactive tools including Lattice, Smoothing, Array and Spline Bridge. New Modeler Features: Layout View viewport shows the current camera view from Layout.Noise Reduction Filter: Speeds up render times by using less Global Illumination rays and samples, while allowing for clean up of the resulting noise using filters instead of increased render settings.Layout-based Parametric Shapes: Parametric shapes allow for creation of virtual primitive shapes in Layout that can be displaced, surfaced and rendered without needing any geometry.Fibers are now generated using the new primitive object architecture More Integrated FiberFX: Expanded to integrated closely with the new lighting and shading system and can use any material on the fibers.Cel Shader and Enhanced Edge Rendering: Offers flexible non photoreal render control over material shading and allows gradient-based cel shading, while Edge Rendering uses any material available in the Surface Editor to shade any line.Modifier Stack with New Deformation Nodes: Unlocks and simplifies the previously fixed order of operations for Bones, Morphs, Subdivision and Displacements with the ability to drag and drop to re-order mesh deformations interactively.Virtual Reality Camera: Includes both cylindrical and spherical modes for creating stereo 360-degree renders and animations for VR applications.Surface Editor, Material Nodes and Surface Preview: The Surface Editor has been overhauled for the new shading system with powerful node-based materials that are presented with a familiar interface.Light Capabilities: New lighting architecture brings physical lights that can be optionally visible to the camera, and improved loading of IES web files to better match the intensity of real manufactured lights.Volumetric Engine and Open VDB Support: Using the new volumetric render primitives, artists can specify physically based properties, Scattering, Absorption and Emission parameters, along with powerful node networks.
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