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- In <3o66rv$5o1@news.erinet.com> pthorn@erinet.com writes:
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- >Vern Shurtz <vshurtz@awod.com> wrote:
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- >> NOT!!!!
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- >> For anyone thinking of buying lightwave 3D for the PC do yourself
- >> a favor, DON'T. I had the displeasure of working with it this weekend
- >> and I am not impressed. Even on NT 3DS will render circles around it
- >> any day of the week. It's interface suck's Bigtime.
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- >> Vern Shurtz
- >> Images Rendered
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- > Are you trying to tell us you actually prefer 3DS' Autocad-ugly DOS
- >interface better!?!
- >
-
- Hmmm, LightWave is good enough for Network television shows such as
- seaQuest and Star Trek Voyager, not to mention feature film trailers as
- well as full screen visual F/Xs.
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- While it may not do as good a job at architectural walkthroughs as 3DS,
- due to 3DS's A buffer antialiasing, it does a great job of creating
- 'organic' visuals suited to the entertainment industry. The program has
- in fact, been developed largely by Hollywood, through it's input and
- suggestions, which makes it a different kind of product.
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- As far as rendering circles around LightWave, it is true that 3DS can
- render faster, but it does so at the expense of image quality. I have
- 3DS, and can't create the same quality of image as I can in LightWave,
- and I'm quite fluent in both.
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- LightWave has a far superior modeler next to 3DS. Organic modeling is
- still difficult in 3DS, and shapes that fold back over themselves are
- impossible to do in one pass.
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- Selective raytracing is another plus to LW. 3DS still can't do it.
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- Another problem with 3DS is the large number of IPAS routines one needs
- to get the software 'useable'. All the really cool features are extras,
- even glows and displacement mapping, which LW has had in of itself since
- release 3. One could easily spend over $5000 to get the same features
- that come native in LightWave, figuring the $3000 price of the 'base'
- package plus all the IPAS stuff.
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- While 3DS does have many pluses, it still dosen't offer the same bang for
- the buck as LightWave.
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