What is Happening with LW?

**erikals** · 09-04-2020, 02:51 AM

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**trang** · 09-04-2020, 02:58 AM

I suppose there will be no more Lightwave updates then not to mention LW 2021..so I guess its ded..pity!

**erikals** · 09-04-2020, 03:03 AM

ok, so these guys are still working on LightWave I guess...

Engineering :

Deuce Bennett
Jamie Finch
David Forstenlechner
Bob Hood
Ken Nign
Jarno van der Linden
Ben Vost
James Willmott

**gar26lw** · 09-04-2020, 03:32 AM

thread on the facebook group about this. looks bad

**erikals** · 09-04-2020, 04:16 AM

Originally Posted by gar26lw

thread on the facebook group about this. looks bad

FB thread >
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ligh...82736245165689

the doom feels exaggerated, there are still 8 engineers working on LightWave.

**Wickedpup** · 09-04-2020, 04:24 AM

As great as the name Lightwave is, being a user involves a lot of being left in the DARK....

**cresshead** · 09-04-2020, 05:56 AM

I wonder what the state of beta testers are if the render dev chap has left newtek at the end of august 2020.
No point beta testing the renderer if there's no developer to fix/expand it....

**cresshead** · 09-04-2020, 06:01 AM

Originally Posted by erikals

ok, so these guys are still working on LightWave I guess...

Engineering :

Deuce Bennett
Jamie Finch
David Forstenlechner
Bob Hood
Ken Nign
Jarno van der Linden
Ben Vost
James Willmott

Deuce Bennett
Ben Vost

are not engineers btw
ben used to do documentation for example
so that's a maximum of 6 not 8 if they are still working there on lightwave and have not been moved to video.

**gar26lw** · 09-04-2020, 06:09 AM

Lino offering to train people in blender/octane. does he know more than us?

**cresshead** · 09-04-2020, 06:13 AM

Originally Posted by gar26lw

limo offering to train people in blender/octane. does he know more than us?

well he certainly knows octane.. he works there!

**JohnMarchant** · 09-04-2020, 06:38 AM

I doubt very much that Lino knows more than any others what is happening with LW.

He sees a business opportunity and why not.

**cresshead** · 09-04-2020, 06:51 AM

newtek = silence

... what's new!

**lino.grandi** · 09-04-2020, 06:58 AM

Originally Posted by JohnMarchant

I doubt very much that Lino knows more than any others what is happening with LW.

He sees a business opportunity and why not.

I don't see any business opportunity. I'm only offering my help to people I consider, first of all, friends.

**RPSchmidt** · 09-04-2020, 07:05 AM

Originally Posted by lino.grandi

I don't see any business opportunity. I'm only offering my help to people I consider, first of all, friends.

Quoted for truth.

As far as Newtek / Lightwave goes... haven't we been down this road already? I mean, didn't we go through three years of mostly silence after 2015 and then they dropped 2018?

Given the current economy, I'm not sure it's particularly surprising that they would be forced to make some very hard choices... literally thousands of companies, big and small, have been forced to make the same choices.

Any of it may be true, or none of it is true... but maybe a wee bit too much doom at this point.