![]() The great appeal of the new LightWave is the 1K-to-own-it price, and the really cheap upgrade price. Blender feels ass-backward to me from a UI/UX design standpoint. But with the current UI, Blender really is not a 3D software I would want to work in 60 hours a week at all. But I wouldn’t dream of taking on a large project with Blender, such as an animated CG movie. Bforartists shows how Blender could have been with a better UI. Houdini is too technical for most people and not necessarily something you’d want to use everyday as your main 3D app.Ī new LightWave with a completely new, modern UI design would be a breath of fresh air if the price stays at or around 1K.Īs for Blender, it would be a viable option if it had a more standard UI/UX design. C4D is also slow to develop in some areas. C4D - great UI workflow, but buying Studio, plugins and render engines quickly makes it a very expensive 3D app to buy. Maya and Max - subscription only and by Autodesk. But then somehow, Maya and Softimage came along, and LightWave fell behind. LightWave has a pretty long track record in Film and Television work and has been around for a very long time. Outside of catering to existing users, what selling points are there to recommend it as a new software for someone? There’s lots of reason for picking an app, ease of use, tools specifically for your area, fast rendering, engine support, specific plugins, integration with other apps, price, heavy use in an industry. A lot of people, including myself, hate subscription software.Ī genuine question For those who use it, why would someone new to 3D today pick lightwave over blender? I also hope that NewTek don’t go subscription only like Autodesk have - being able to buy a perpetual license for LW is a major selling point of LW now. With a fresh new UI and an asking price of just 1K, LightWave will immediately become popular with new 3D users looking for a capable 3D soft without a huge price tag. I hope that Newtek do not make the same mistake as the Blender people, and start kidding themselves that a UI that is more than a decade old now “is good for everything still”. If and when the UI overhaul happens, I probably will buy LightWave 2019 or 2020 for its price alone - 1K is about what I expect to pay for Pro 3D software in 2018, not 3K - 4K like some other 3D apps. I can see why that didn’t happen in this version - they had tons of technical features to add and also need to merge the code from 2 separate applications and port everything over to the QT UI framework so a more flexible UI is possible. C4D for example sells more on the strength of its UI design, not its technical features. Negatives - LightWave really needs a good, new, customizable and unified UI like Maya, C4D or Max. Positives - the software only costs 1K, there are many new features and the download was just 258 MB in size. I’ve downloaded the trial version of LW 2018 (I was never much of a LW user in the past).
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