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Originally Posted by evil_genius_180
I have a general Lighwave question for you. I know you are/were a Lightwave 9 user, have you tried Lightwave 10 at all? If not, have you seen any reviews or anything like that on Lightwave forums saying how good it is compared to LW9?
I'm (obviously) putting serious thought into changing from trueSpace to Lightwave. I'm so fracking impressed by stuff I've seen done in it and I like Newtek's prices much better than Autodesk's prices. Lightwave is only about $100 more than the latest version of trueSpace used to be before it went to freeware and then went kaput. (you can still get it but it's not getting any younger) I can handle $900 much better than I can $3,500. However, sometimes you can find used (or even new) copies of Lightwave 9 on Ebay for $200 to $300. I'm wondering if it's worth the money to get LW 10 or if I should just wait (when I have the money) and get a cheaper copy of LW9.
Do you have any thoughts on this? You're one of the few Lightwave users that I know that's a regular poster and I value your opinions on a lot of things, so any insight you have would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: Hmm, this was supposed to be a private message but I obviously messed up somewhere.  Oh well. |
I have not tried LW10 myself.
But its better than LW9, been more stable (while I have not had any trouble myself with it)
it has a lot of new features like VPR which allow you to view your scenes before rendering. great if you want to get into animating
I would and I ask a friend to be sure go for LW10.
Avoid the Ebay offers if you want to go second hand you have to be sure you get the licence. check out newtech forums
http://www.newtek.com/forums/ ..
or
Foundation3d where a package shows up from time to time.
but really LW10 would be the way to go.... I eventually have to go that way too ? but as I only model the layout is hardly used . but I will be changing that soon.
Modo is also a possibility. not sure how much that is.
but I will be more than happy to help in any way once you do get LW..
