Talk:LightWave 3D

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Contents 1 'Unique Features' Ideas 2 Name Change 3 Software Differences? 4 Thanks for the change of name! 5 Version history key features? 6 Cleanup 7 Logo meaning? 8 9.3 Release Date? 9 Too much promotion... 10 Adding info about the Mac UB port and cleaning up the grammar 11 Which features aren't available without the dongle? 12 Multithreaded? since when 13 Spinoff 14 Sleep with kids? 15 Vandalisim?

[edit] 'Unique Features' Ideas

For the 'Unique Features' section, I think it would be interesting to add additional subsections with information on some of LightWave's more unusual features, such as the advanced camera tools and hypervoxels. Maybe even a little about FPrime. So if anyone considers themself knowledgable on any of those, please go for it! I think this section would be useful for people who may want to understand some of the differences between LightWave and the other 3D apps.

I don't think Fprime belongs under that heading since it is a 3rd party plugin. Maybe having a "notable plugins" or similar section would fit better, but currently fprime is as much a Unique feature to LW as my neighbors car. There are many other plugs that are as notable as Fprime as well.

[edit] Name Change

It would be better and more correct if the title of the page was LightWave (with a capital W). - Ben Vost, NewTek Europe...

[edit] Software Differences?

I think someone should make a section describing the difference between LightWave and 3DStudios. I feel it would be very useful. - Alex

[edit] Thanks for the change of name!

Hi, still working my way around editing the page, have updated a lot today and would like to get the infobox to match the size of the logo and Modeler screenshots, but I am unsure of how to do it (the template works in "ems" rather than pixels?). I'd also like to know how to edit my entries in the history pages so that I can see what I've done.

[edit] Version history key features?

What are/were the main features for each major version release?

[edit] Cleanup

This article has gone out of focus, and seems to be a glorification of LightWave's achievements. It is also advertising LightWave through the use of weasel words, which are inappropriate in an encyclopedia. This is an encyclopedia page, not an online advertisement site. Advertisements stating how good the program is without any backup of reliable sources are considered to be redundant will be removed.

I seriously hope that editors to this article will abide by the guidelines set out by Wikipedia. --219.74.177.182 12:17, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Logo meaning?

Just curious what the logo is? A seashell? A cinnamon roll? --72.202.150.92 04:47, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 9.3 Release Date?

Does anyone know the real release date of 9.3, I just put SIGGRAPH for now but I don't think that will do.

[edit] Too much promotion...

I'm finding that this page contains a lot of promotion for LightWave. And as I've been looking at other software pages, 3ds max for example, I'm seeing a much more professional feel to the page. This article requiers a lot of clean-up. ShawnStovall 14:07, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree that this page feels like a promotion, which I am beginning to remedy. Though I don't really agree that the pages of other software packages look all that much better... —Preceding unsigned comment added by White Boy (talk • contribs) 08:15, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adding info about the Mac UB port and cleaning up the grammar

Hi, after a few thousand posts over at the Newtek forums I decided it was time to clean this baby up. I'm not changing anything major, just removing some irrelevant links and redundant history (the intro paragraph says stuff about the Amiga that is also said in the History section. Also I'm trying to give it a more neutral POV.

Does anybody have some updated screenshots? The ones on there are from 9.0 which was almost 3 releases ago... Inigo07 (talk) 21:48, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I took out the statement "Some critics in the industry noted that the feature set of Lightwave made it worth the price of the Video Toaster alone." That is utterly useless to anybody reading this article Inigo07 (talk) 21:51, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I took out some more useless information, such as the original price of the Video Toaster (like anyone cares?) and a description of the TCP/IP protocol that the Hub uses (like anyone cares either?). Also cleaning up some grammar. Inigo07 (talk) 20:43, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Which features aren't available without the dongle?

I think that should be added to the article. I'd do it myself, but I don't know. I'll do some research to try to find out, though, but it would be helpful if someone who already knew put it up there. --71.163.134.187 (talk) 21:14, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

• Basically without the dongle you have the demo version of Lightwave. It's not functional without it (watermarked renders and max 400 polygons savable). It's not like it's a "limited free version" without the dongle - it's just a demo. I think this part needs to be rewritten as well. Inigo07 (talk) 17:55, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Multithreaded? since when

I'm only here because I'm waiting for some hard body dynamics to calculate. On my q6600 precisely ONE of the CPUs is flat out, the rest are twiddling their thumbs. Apart from Rendering can anyone tell me what multithreading is in use? Particularly in Modeller. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stib (talk • contribs) 11:09, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spinoff

I'm thinking that the list of movies etc. used by lightwave should be branched off, similar to what they have done in the 3ds Max Article. (see this for an example). Anyone else agree? 76.185.42.208 (talk) 21:26, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

• Actually, yeah, that is a good idea. I'm really interested in getting this article up to par. This exact page was what sold me on LW anyway, several years ago. Now it's my job. Inigo07 (talk) 15:22, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sleep with kids?

I was previously unaware that michael jackson had recorded a song called "Just Wanna Sleep With Kids," as this article states.

Can someone verify this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.139.39.212 (talk) 08:06, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalisim?

I think that this article has been slightly vandalized. For example, Dexter's Lab and the PowerPuff Girls weren't in 3-D. --Particleman24 (talk) 12:54, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

@particleman: as far as I know lightwave can render 2d anime like pictures.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.156.52.98 (talk) 18:01, 31 May 2008 (UTC)