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There are all sorts of little add-ons to LightWave 7.0b that enhance the performance and usability of the program: [an error occurred while processing this directive] NewTek’s LightWave 7.0b Feature List (items not previously mentioned)
General Controls
- Squash and stretch tool
Motify: Replacement Delete key option. It includes more advanced features, including clearing motions, deleting ranges of keys and deleting keys within a threshold.
Graph Editor
- Completely new Channel Editing System
OpenGL interface allows editing hundreds of curves and thousands of key frames in real time.
New features for handling data rich curves such as Match Footprint Time Slice, Key Reduction, Curve Filtering and Key Bins
Multiple curve types (Linear, Bezier, Stepped, Hermite Spline, TCB) allows for multi-select and editing of heterogeneous curve types – includes key roll option, interactive key copy, and much more
Track Layout’s selection option, automatically updates current selection of editable curves to match selected item
Curve View allows collapsible curve list and options sections to provide optimized space for curve editing
New Lock Motion Keys in Time provides quick method for locking channels for ‘5.6 style’ curve editing
Customizable key editing behaviors and interface
Production designed behaviors and options
Interactive spline tangent (t,c,b) adjustment
Motion and Displacement Controllers
- Modified bones deformation algorithm reduces cross talk between bones and provides a more natural deformation of skin surfaces without any point assignment required
Spline-based motion and deformation
Integrated Sub-division Bump Displacement creates an accurate displacement of vertices on the surface at the time of subdivision creating very natural, high definition geometric bumping.
Particle FX and Dynamics
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| Bump Displacement in LightWave. Click for larger image. |
Particle spawning from parent emitters allows a single particle to become a complex emitter
Collision spawning allows collision events to create new particles with independent attributes
Change Group mode for collisions will force particles into a new Effects Group after collision
Nozzle types (cone, surface, line)
Wind types include: direction, explosion, rotation, cylinder-explosion, doughnut, turbulence, vortex, path, sticky, random, hemisphere and drag
Object and scene linking to particles – attach items or complete hierarchies to particles.
Rendering
- Soft reflection
Soft refraction
BESM (Big Eyes Small Mouth) shader for cartoon style rendering. (As seen on Nickelodeon’s Invader Zim!)
Gmill ray accumulation shader approximates radiosity effects on a selected surface
Voxel Baking for Volume type HyperVoxels. Users can now bake volumetric clouds for incredibly fast rendering and real time OpenGL previews
Radiosity – calculation of bounced lighting for global illumination with production speed.
NEW Backdrop only method for fast global illumination style renders
Option to ray trace non-refractive transparency
Modeling Tools
- Phantom subpatch point selector allows users to click directly on the subpatch curve intersection for editing
Airbrush between morphs
Productivity Modeling tools: "Aligner", "Sizer", and "Dangle". These modeling tools are great for modeling to scale as well as relational modeling between multiple objects. These are particularly useful for industrial design application
Rail Modeling tools allowing interactive scale, rotate and stretch based on new curve tool
Simultaneous selection of up to four weight maps in the Vertex map window; represented in weight shade view style
Export of wireframes to EPS format
Face Collapse command
Rounded edge box tool
Snap rotations to 15 degrees from rotate mini-widget
Color wireframes
VMAP symmetry editing
Move/Rotate tool (Rove)
Flatten layers
Save layers as object(s)
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