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On Mon, 22 May 1995, Brian Dady wrote:

> Dave, I agree that it might make some sense, but there are more than a
> few Lightwaver's out here in this position:

And I'm one of them!


> My buying another copy of Lightwave might make
> sense to you, but it just means a longer wait for me, before I can be
> in business like you!

Well, if you put yourself into NewTek's shoes, you'll see that it makes
sense to anyone!  This porting of LightWave to other platforms is no easy
task...Allen and Stuart have had to essentially program LightWave from
scratch and get the same results on different machines.  If they could
simply take the Amiga version of LightWave, wave a magic wand, and
magically make it work on the PC and SGI and Alpha and Mips platforms,
then I'm sure NewTek would gladly make copies for all platforms available
to all users.

But the fact is, Allen and Stuart have spent months (years?) programming
LightWave and they should get paid (handsomely!) for their efforts.  If
NewTek starts giving copies away to people then that means lost revenue
and less money in Allen and Stuart's pockets.

Now, I've heard RUMORS that there will be render-only copies of LightWave
released to people in the future so that if you get a PC some time down
the road and you still want to set up your scenes/models on the Amiga and
render on the PC, you'll be able to do so.  However, if you want to
model or create scenes on your PC or when plugins start to become
available on the PC and not on the Amiga, then you're going to have to
seriously consider purchasing a full-blown copy of LightWave for the PC
because otherwise you won't be able to use any of the plugins for that
version of LightWave.


Believe me, I know exactly what you're going through...my business is not
at a level where I can just throw piles of cash at people without
thoroughly considering my options...that's why I purchased LW 3.5
Standlone and will be upgrading to LW 4.0 for the Alpha when it becomes
available....hopefully I'll even have an Alpha machine to run it on by
that time!

And personally, I'm not all that ecstatic about having to pay $550 for a
totally new Toaster system, when all I really want for the Toaster is the
new LightWave version, but hey, it's the nature of the beast.  Nobody has
ever said that doing computer graphics is a cheap hobby, and I've got a
Black Hole in my bank account to prove it!  =)

Hang in there though...some day it'll all be worth it!


                                      -David Warner
                                       Event Horizon Graphics

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