Now, a decade later, this plugin has finally made it into LW itself. This tells you a lot about the speed of development over at Newtek. Why would Newtek want to smash a 3rd party developer's creation and make a redundant tool? They pretty much waited until Worely quit development on Fprime before ...

angus_davidson wrote:Still havent heard anything about edu options yet as well.

Educational pricing is available for all LW3DG products.

cost vs value: If you need to run a company it's not the software which costs, but the manpower. This will, and has always depended on the size of the company and the needs of the user... I do agree with you in some aspects. Time is extremely valuable. I'm just saying forking out $10,000+ per year ...

Hirazi Blue wrote:Agreed, but now let's get back to the emotions, not the politics!

Agreed. The takeaway here that all SoftImage users should know is that people outside the box know what happened. The fact that its status is being reported in almost every major 3d community is a very encouraging thing.

A (critical) answer to you, as freelance, with much effort in modelling characters (for animation and for 3d printing) , rendering and base posing it, why I must prefer LW over modo or Blender? I'm aware this can start the usual software war, but really, I (and probably "we") not in the c...

If it makes any difference, many other 3d communities are talking about AD's treatment of SI as well; Lightwave Forum Topic C4D Forum Topic Modo Forum Topic CGTalk Forum Topic Blendernation Topic Know that this isn't just a "oh some other person's preferred software died, big whoop" thing ...

Wonder if anybody will bother to make a documentary like that about Softimage... I don't know ... I have a feeling that people simply moved on. And that's sad ... Looks like nobody misses Softimage. I feel the whole SoftImage scenario is having a different effect on the community compared to Life o...

Ryan also produced an amazing manual for IKBooster in the fall. I think Ryan is about to post here right now, so I will let him explain more. Simply put, I gave Kat the go-ahead to provide my entire animation content series (parts 1-5) for free to SoftImage users who pick up Lightwave. I spent 600 ...