POST .PRODUCTION LightWave 3D®

VT[3]™ provides the ultimate platform for visual effects workstations, with the inclusion of LightWave 3D®, the industry-standard 3D modeling, rendering and animation software.
All over the world, professionals have come to rely on the power, speed and flexibility of LightWave 3D® for numerous applications:

• Compositing and special effects • High-quality logo animation • Print graphics • Major film production • Game creation • Architectural and industrial design

A full robust program, LightWave 3D® includes many of the tools that other packages require to be purchased separately. Soft-body dynamics, particles, hair and fur, plus unlimited render nodes, just to name a few. LightWave 3D® ships with all the tools an artist needs to create.



Caustics
Caustics in LightWave 3D®® provide fast and accurate light reflection and refraction. Generally, a caustic appears in the real world when light reflects off a curved surface or refracts through a transparent surface so that it is focused on a small area.

Modeling
LightWave 3D® is a true, real-time subdivision surface modeler. With complete interactivity with tools such as bevel, smooth shift, and more, modeling becomes like sculpting with digital clay. Plus, with the ability to model in any viewport including the perspective view, defining and altering objects is instinctive.

Motion Mixer
Motion Mixer was designed to bring the same concepts found in non-linear video editing to computer animation. With Motion Mixer, you can store, re-use, and adjust motions for entire hierarchies or use transitions to mix and blend different motions together. By defining "actors" within a LightWave scene, it is possible to use a timeline to extend, trim, move and scale motions. Incredibly complex animations can now be created in LightWave using a library of relatively simple moves.

Radiosity
Radiosity is the scattering (reflection) of light off of diffuse surfaces, which causes surfaces to become indirect light sources. LightWave 3D® has a radiosity solution built in, which can produce some spectacular results, by essentially calculating bounced lighting for global illumination.

Rendering
LightWave 3D®'s renderer has long been considered the best in the industry. The world's fastest, most beautiful renderer computes massive amounts of internal data, computed at floating-point accuracy to ensure the color depth that results in ultra high-quality imagery. Including radiosity, caustics, HyperVoxels, hair and fur rendering, soft reflections and refractions, Voxel Baking, Digital Confusion depth-of-field filter, the LightWave renderer is powerful, beautiful, and flexible.

Spreadsheet Editor
Within LightWave [7] the spreadsheet scene manager organizes and allows the user to access and edit the properties of objects, in any number from one to 100. With expandable and collapsible sections, the user is able to quickly view sections of the scene, and edit pieces as needed. The spreadsheet also includes filtering options for precise searching through the list for the items needed, and "favorites" lists can be created as well.