digitalrelm
11-03-2008, 05:11 PM
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Lightwave from the perspective of a new user. My thoughts about Autodesk’s buy out of Softimage and other companies.
Hello All
I am new here. I have been doing 3d for a while with things like Blender. But the problem with blender is that everything seems to me to be all over the place. This made the package very difficult to learn. I have also looked at the other packages mentioned later in this post. The thing is that all these products as good as they are, they are still confusing. All of them are very expensive ether you buy a package that dose the basics of modeling, texturing, rendering and buy extra modules to give you more power or you buy a big package but at the end of the day they are about the same price.(In my opinion away)
After all this looking around I have decided that Lightwave is the package for me for lots of reasons:
- Cost (It is inexpensive, it's just me I don't have a big studio buying my software for me to use. So cost is going to be right up there.)
- Interface (Lightwave is split in two one half for modeling and the other for animation and rendering. This means that you can focus on one task at a time when learning. I like that way the UI is laid-out. All the tools are grouped in to tasks like Create for creating geometry, it just makes sense. Also the UI dose not jump out at you like some other programs.
- Power (Lightwave gives you the lot, Particles, Animation, Hypervolexs and now Hair the list just goes on)
- Cross-platform (You get a Mac version and a Windows version in the same box. On top of that you can get the ScreamerNet renderer for Linux. I love that because I have had linux machines lying around I can put them to use for free. All my linux box’s are my old systems. You can just get a network going and instant render farm)
So these are just a few of the reasons I chose Lightwave, now all I have to do is wait for 9.5 for mac to be released and the buy a copy. I am running in discovery mode.
Now on to my other topic.
When you think of High-end off the shelf visual effects and animation software how many main packages come to mind?
For me it was four they are: Lightwave, Max, Maya and XSI.
Now three of these packages are owned by the same company. I have no idea what Autodesk will do with XSI but I can bet they will rase it's foundation package price. I just hope that Newtek stays independent.
I would be interested to hear what people think about both topics.
Thanks Guys
digitalrelm
Lightwave from the perspective of a new user. My thoughts about Autodesk’s buy out of Softimage and other companies.
Hello All
I am new here. I have been doing 3d for a while with things like Blender. But the problem with blender is that everything seems to me to be all over the place. This made the package very difficult to learn. I have also looked at the other packages mentioned later in this post. The thing is that all these products as good as they are, they are still confusing. All of them are very expensive ether you buy a package that dose the basics of modeling, texturing, rendering and buy extra modules to give you more power or you buy a big package but at the end of the day they are about the same price.(In my opinion away)
After all this looking around I have decided that Lightwave is the package for me for lots of reasons:
- Cost (It is inexpensive, it's just me I don't have a big studio buying my software for me to use. So cost is going to be right up there.)
- Interface (Lightwave is split in two one half for modeling and the other for animation and rendering. This means that you can focus on one task at a time when learning. I like that way the UI is laid-out. All the tools are grouped in to tasks like Create for creating geometry, it just makes sense. Also the UI dose not jump out at you like some other programs.
- Power (Lightwave gives you the lot, Particles, Animation, Hypervolexs and now Hair the list just goes on)
- Cross-platform (You get a Mac version and a Windows version in the same box. On top of that you can get the ScreamerNet renderer for Linux. I love that because I have had linux machines lying around I can put them to use for free. All my linux box’s are my old systems. You can just get a network going and instant render farm)
So these are just a few of the reasons I chose Lightwave, now all I have to do is wait for 9.5 for mac to be released and the buy a copy. I am running in discovery mode.
Now on to my other topic.
When you think of High-end off the shelf visual effects and animation software how many main packages come to mind?
For me it was four they are: Lightwave, Max, Maya and XSI.
Now three of these packages are owned by the same company. I have no idea what Autodesk will do with XSI but I can bet they will rase it's foundation package price. I just hope that Newtek stays independent.
I would be interested to hear what people think about both topics.
Thanks Guys
digitalrelm