What and when will be the next Lightwave

[mjh]

What and when will the next LighWave come out after 9.3 and how far will they take Lighwave after 9.3 please tell me

[archijam]

What and when will be your 8th post?

This is the weirdest post I've seen in ages ..

What sort of answer are you waiting for? And when? (Please tell me)

[Exception]

I think the next Lightwave after 9.3 has already been released. So when? That'd be last week.

[Verlon]

how far will they take it?

Well, as with most businesses, as far as they can make money doing it, I would suppose....

Remember when booleans were a high end feature?
Or when image mapped textures hit?

[GregMalick]

I think that more and more companies are becoming reluctant to reveal exactly when new releases will occur and what they will contain. And for good reason. If a company is promising a new feature and the beta shows there are too many problems to include it in a release - what is a company to do. If they don't include it and people are expecting it - people complain. If they delay the release in order to fix the problems - people complain. If they release the feature with bugs - people complain.

So the best course of action is not to release any specific information.
That's what NewTek has done at this point. All we know is that "some" Character Animation features will be included in the LW9 cycle. That's sufficiently vague to be pretty safe. It doesn't stifle a lot of rampant speculation though. :D

That's my 2cents.

[Silkrooster]

I think that more and more companies are becoming reluctant to reveal exactly when new releases will occur and what they will contain. And for good reason. If a company is promising a new feature and the beta shows there are too many problems to include it in a release - what is a company to do. If they don't include it and people are expecting it - people complain. If they delay the release in order to fix the problems - people complain. If they release the feature with bugs - people complain.

So the best course of action is not to release any specific information.
That's what NewTek has done at this point. All we know is that "some" Character Animation features will be included in the LW9 cycle. That's sufficiently vague to be pretty safe. It doesn't stifle a lot of rampant speculation though. :D

That's my 2cents.
I have to agree. Most of us want the inside scoop of whats happening next. But over the years I have heard of more complaints because of what Greg had said above.
Not only that, they can not devulge any info that give their competitors the upper hand.
Silk

[Surrealist.]

What and when will the next LighWave come out after 9.3 and how far will they take Lighwave after 9.3 please tell me


Over the last year or so I have seen several posts by Jay Roth outlining what the plans were for the 9.0 cycle and beyond. I think if you search the posts here you'll find info. Look at this page (http://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?p=596344#post596344), find his post and click on his name to find other posts. If you look back far enough you'll find some of those posts I am talking about.

Also there have been some press releases and other things if you look around. For a more recent idea stick around and check out some of the threads here.

[*Pete*]

What and when will the next LighWave come out after 9.3 and how far will they take Lighwave after 9.3 please tell me

beta for 9.4 or 9.5 should start very soon..what it will bring is unknown so far, but the next update will be a feature update (9.31 was a bug killing update).
among expected/hoped for features are improved CA tools and instancing, possibly some more renderer updates, but its pure speculation.
people who know the "insiders" at NT seem to be satisfied with what we will get.

how far they will take LW after 9.3?..who knows, lw 9.6? maybe...or do you mean if lw 10 will come out ever? it is in the plans.

[Iain]

I just hope they include clever stuff and a whole bunch of neat high end bits so that I can do awesome pictures real easy.

Oh, and CA buttons that'll make it a cinch to get my busty naked poser models to dance alluringly and do kung fu for me.

[*Pete*]

I just hope they include clever stuff and a whole bunch of neat high end bits so that I can do awesome pictures real easy.

Oh, and CA buttons that'll make it a cinch to get my busty naked poser models to dance alluringly and do kung fu for me.

how about a button like "make archviz"
pressing it will give you an fully textured opengl, realtime animation with loads of busty, naked poser women (wearing only construction helmets) walking around and building the archviz house for you, all while a cool relaxed music is played for you, naturally..the women and construcion is matched to the music.


hmm..perhaps Dpont can make a plugin for us while we wait for the beta to start?

[archijam]

naked poser women (wearing only construction helmets) walking around and building the archviz house for you, all while a cool relaxed music is played for you, naturally..the women and construcion is matched to the music.

It shall be called the Benny Benassi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fJZ6DwmBXU) plugin.

[Exception]

Aim higher!
Where's that 'get rich, solve world hunger and kick dubya in the knackers' render flag?

[Titus]

What and when will the next LighWave come out after 9.3 and how far will they take Lighwave after 9.3 please tell me

Short answer: nobody knows.

[GATOR]

What and when will the next LighWave come out after 9.3 and how far will they take Lighwave after 9.3 please tell me

I'm guessing it'll be LW 9.4

And maybe a Dali Plug-in that will warp items (clocks, cows...etc) over other objects with specific gravity settings.