LightWave 2018 Announcement - Discussion Thread

[Dillon]

Thank you for the quick and direct answer. Is a new undo system in the works?

My initial impression was "meh". But I'm starting to feel a little bit less skeptical.

1. No new Undo system (sorry)
2. Layout benefits from it speed wise

[Matt]

Thank you for the quick and direct answer. Is a new undo system in the works?

There was some groundwork that could end up being part of that, but it's early days.

[RebelHill]

do you have any archviz type of render scene?

I did a redux of the Oscar Anchondo loft...

[Matt]

A materials test

[js33]

Cheers... though, how d'y'know I didnt just hack the NT server and steal it... I think ur being presumptuous.

I didn't know but now that you are reveling scenes done with 2018 I figured you must have been a beta tester all along.

[js33]

A materials test

Nice. I like the SSS ones the most.

[samurai_x]

Is that upgrade price that is limited up to march applicable to even the Core users that were promised 5 discounted upgrade prices?

[SBowie]

So are we going to get a roadmap?

I would be astounded if you did, sorry. The good Dr. spends a lot more time considering things like this than anyone I know, and I think his reply would be similar to the general thrust of this post that he wrote a little while back:

http://forums.newtek.com/showthread....=1#post1514354

(Hopefully he'll forgive me for speaking for him; he's traveling this week.)

[vncnt]

It's alive?
Prove it.

[hypersuperduper]

What’s the current compatability status of popular plugins in 2018? I figure anything In modeler is probably fine, but how about paint weights or dpont nodes, or other layout stuff. I assume all of these plugin developers were beta testers.

[Marander]

Parts of 2018 are using Qt for the GUI, but the rest of the GUI needs to updated

Thank you for your honest answer.

No GUI fix or significant improvements, no undo update(!), no updated Text tools(!), no Spline improvements(!), lack of other basic functionality like Snapping or Sculpting, limited geometry speed improvements, no parametric objects (besides Sphere and Plane, seriously?), no Substance support, almost no backwards compatibility, no unification / first modeling tools in Layout, completely outdated Modeler with no updates worth mentioning... more 'under the hood' statements and not much to be seen of a modern architecture...

I guess that's it for me.

[Matt]

What’s the current compatability status of popular plugins in 2018? I figure anything In modeler is probably fine, but how about paint weights or dpont nodes, or other layout stuff. I assume all of these plugin developers were beta testers.

Octane works
LWCAD works
Denis will need to update some of his stuff, I'll let him comment on that
Mike Wolf is on his stuff I believe
T4D not sure personally, I don't have it

[mummyman]

Octane works
LWCAD works
Denis will need to update some of his stuff, I'll let him comment on that
Mike Wolf is on his stuff I believe
T4D not sure personally, I don't have it

How about 3rd Powers?

[Matt]

Thank you for your honest answer.

No GUI fix or significant improvements, no undo update(!), no updated Text tools(!), no Spline improvements(!), lack of other basic functionality like Snapping or Sculpting, limited geometry speed improvements, no parametric objects (besides Sphere and Plane, seriously?), no Substance support, almost no backwards compatibility, no unification / first modeling tools in Layout, completely outdated Modeler with no updates worth mentioning... more 'under the hood' statements and not much to be seen of a modern architecture...

I guess that's it for me.

Sorry you feel that way.

[fishhead]

Thank you ...
...
I guess that's it for me.

Is that a promise?