Lightwave 3D?

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Post May 12th, 2004, 11:27 pm

Does anyone know if lightwave 3d is anygood as i am thinking of buying it.

i looked at ther site http://www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/ and from there it looks good. But they are the people that make it so they are going to say it good.

Has anyone had it before and would recomend it?

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Post May 12th, 2004, 11:44 pm

I would imagine that in order to go splash out a grand on a piece of software, it'd make sense to already have some experience with it, no? :)

Lightwave 3D is as good or as bad as it is differently to different people. Some hate it, some love it. You might get 10 people tell you it's great, you spend your grand, and now you hate it. Now you're out a grand - but you've got an expensive coaster to put your drinks on :)

Personally, if you can afford to spend that kind of money, I'd double the amount and get Maya :)
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Post May 12th, 2004, 11:48 pm

Moneys no problem and anyway i know someone who sells it cheap (£14.00). I just want something that is more flexable then bryce and quite simple to use.

I looked in the gallery of lightwave and some of the work produced looked pretty amazing. But how long have you got to use he software before you get results similar to them?
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Post May 12th, 2004, 11:59 pm

i have lightwave 7, not gr8 fan. might have to get it out again
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Post May 13th, 2004, 5:33 am

well 3d art software to me is like learning the piano. You have to be passionate about it, and keep practicing to get good at it.
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Post May 13th, 2004, 10:43 am

lol, £14 for a US$1,000 piece of software? It must be legal then ;)
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Post May 13th, 2004, 10:46 am

Im no currency conversion expert, but damn!
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Post May 13th, 2004, 10:55 am

No actually it is not legal :( I work for a charity you think i could afford that.
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Post May 13th, 2004, 11:07 am

doesn't lightwave need a dongle? I thought it did.
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Post May 13th, 2004, 11:11 am

whats a dongle? (sorry if its a thick question but we are all here to learn lol)
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Post May 13th, 2004, 11:14 am

dongle: it's a security key that plugs into your paralell port.
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Post May 13th, 2004, 11:21 am

oh i see thats a good idea.

Well the version that he has to sell is 7.5 and the current version is 8 so maybe they never had that with the older version?
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Post May 13th, 2004, 11:22 am

yeah the software sends an encrypted message to the dongle and the dongle sends a message back, and if it's the right reply the software does what you want. It does this like everytime you try to do anything.

The manufacturers (of the dongle) claimed that it would take a team of people several years to decode the message pairs and come up with a "no-dongle" crack for it.

I read that one guy did it within about a week of the release date....


// I don't even know if it was lightwave 3d that that story was about or even if it does need a dongle.
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Post May 13th, 2004, 11:29 am

i googled it and i think that you might be right rtm. I will have to see what he says.
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Post May 13th, 2004, 11:43 am

Hmmm.. 3DS has used a Dongle ever since it was a DOS application. I think if Lightwave required one now, it would've required one previously too :)
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