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New technology and performance enhancements for world's leading rendering<br />
engine!</p>
<p>SHEFFIELD, UK (24 July 2003) - LightWork Design, the world's leading<br />
supplier of rendering solutions for developers of advanced 3D computer<br />
graphics software, has today announced the imminent release of LightWorks<br />
7.3 and the immediate availability of a pre-release version - giving their<br />
customers early access to the latest technology in LightWorks.</p>
<p>This latest version of LightWorks builds upon the product's success in the<br />
industry by adding significant new features, including:</p>
<p>Cross-platform, plug-in shaders<br />
A major feature of this latest release is support for cross-platform,<br />
plug-in shaders written in the advanced, industry standard LightWorks shader<br />
language. Users of LightWorks-based applications will be able to add<br />
LightWorks plug-in shaders directly into the applications they use without<br />
requiring recompilation of the software. Plug-in shaders written in the<br />
LightWorks shader language can be run on any LightWorks platform - Windows,<br />
Macintosh and all UNIX machines - and can work within any LightWorks-based<br />
application.</p>
<p>The new plug-in shader technology is encapsulated inside the secure LWA<br />
format to allow shaders to be distributed directly to users for importing<br />
into their applications, giving users faster access to even more<br />
sophisticated materials, lighting and other visual effects.</p>
<p>The new plug-in shaders have full access to the advanced LightWorks shading<br />
infrastructure, including unique features such as A-cubed shader<br />
anti-aliasing, and work seamlessly across the range of rendering<br />
technologies in the LightWorks solution, from hardware-assisted rendering up<br />
to the highest quality software rendering.</p>
<p>Easy-to-create LWA-Enabled applications<br />
LightWorks 7.3 also makes it significantly easier for customers to make<br />
their applications LWA-Enabled, thereby giving their users access to the<br />
growing number of industry-standard, real-world archives available for<br />
download from <a href="http://www.lightworks-user.com" title="www.lightworks-user.com">www.lightworks-user.com</a>. New features related to LWA-Enabled<br />
* Generalized shading model and shading pipeline: Customers can<br />
replace or augment the LightWorks shading pipeline for complete<br />
customization and ease in making highly customized LightWorks-based<br />
applications LWA-Enabled.<br />
* New LWA archive taxonomy: A standard taxonomy and structure for<br />
materials and other entities inside the LWA, including attributes that are<br />
specific to applications or manufacturers that are publishing their data in<br />
LWA format.<br />
* Entity templates: Advanced attribute inheritance for LWA entities,<br />
speeding up authoring time and reducing data size.<br />
* Updated LWA format, based on an internal XML representation for<br />
future extensibility and including full compression of the LWA stream that<br />
significantly reduces the size for LWA files.</p>
<p>Performance increases<br />
On top of that, LightWorks 7.3 incorporates performances increases of up to<br />
40% in a range of features, including considerably faster IIR rendering that<br />
uses less memory - for seeing instant photorealistic updates when editing<br />
materials, ray-traced reflections, lights and other effects.</p>
<p>RPC and Real-time for Macintosh<br />
As recently announced, version 7.3 of LightWorks also includes<br />
cross-platform support for RPC files and LightWorks Real-time for the<br />
Macintosh platform.</p>
<p>For more information about LightWorks 7.3, RPC support and LightWorks<br />
Real-time for Macintosh see <a href="http://www.lightworkdesign.com" title="www.lightworkdesign.com">www.lightworkdesign.com</a> or visit the LightWork<br />
Design booth, 3431, at SIGGRAPH.</p>
<p>About LightWork Design<br />
LightWork Design is the world's leading supplier of rendering solutions for<br />
developers of advanced 3D computer graphics software. Established in 1989,<br />
LightWork Design has continually developed LightWorks to provide customers<br />
with innovative and market-focused solutions for the creation of powerful<br />
and easy-to-use rendering applications. Renowned for its physically<br />
accurate visualization of real-world objects and environments, LightWorks is<br />
the ideal choice for applications targeted at the AEC, Automotive, Graphics<br />
and Industrial markets. LightWorks is supplied as a complete solution which<br />
includes the SDK, support, training and consultancy services, to give<br />
customers fast and efficient access to leading-edge rendering technology,<br />
resulting in shorter development cycles, faster time-to-market for new<br />
products, and lower software development costs.</p>
<p>LightWorks is embedded in over 80 software applications and used by more<br />
than 1 million users worldwide, far more than any other renderer.<br />
Applications that incorporate LightWorks include: Alibre Design from Alibre,<br />
ArchiTrend from Fukui Computer, Pro/CONCEPT, Pro/DESKTOP and Pro/ENGINEER<br />
Wildfire from PTC, Cobalt from Ashlar, Configura and InstantPlanner from<br />
Configura Sverige AB, DigiD from Nihon Unisys, form.Z from auto-des-sys,<br />
ICEM Surf from ICEM, IX Design from ImpactXoft, Madric from CPU,<br />
MSC.visualNastran from MSC Software, Presenter 3D from Digital Immersion,<br />
PowerShape from Delcam, solidThinking from Gestel, ThinkReal from Think3,<br />
trueSpace from Caligari, Unigraphics NX from EDS, VectorWorks from<br />
Nemetschek NA and products from many other major CAD vendors.</p>
<a href="http://www.lightworkdesign.com" title="www.lightworkdesign.com">www.lightworkdesign.com</a> or <a href="http://www.lightworks-user.com" title="www.lightworks-user.com">www.lightworks-user.com</a></p>
<p>LightWorks and the LightWorks logo are registered trademarks of LightWork<br />
Design Ltd.<br />
LWA, LWA-Enabled and the LWA-Enabled logo, Interactive Image Regeneration,<br />
IIR, A-cubed, Feature-Following Anti-Aliasing and FFAA are all trademarks of<br />
LightWork Design Ltd. All other trademarks, images and logos remain the<br />
property of their respective owners.<br />
Copyright of LightWork Design Ltd. 1990-2002, 2003.</p>
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