Post Description

LightWave 3D is the most complete and flexible software solution for 3D graphics and animation.

LightWave 3D is versatile enough to make the transition to and from all kinds of projects. Proven for years in television, film, and games, LightWave 3D is also being used to create graphics for print, web, industrial design, architecture, medical imaging, and anywhere else a 3D package is needed. 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, to name a few; LightWave 3D ships with all the tools an artist needs to create.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 11.0:
Highlights of this release include instancing, flocking, a Bullet Dynamics engine in Layout and a Fracture tool in Modeler for physics-based animation, Python scripting, support for new controller types (including the Sony Playstation Move), and more.
REQUIREMENTS
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later

LightWave 3D 11.5

2013 - LightWave 11.5

Released 31-Jan-2013

A massive free update that includes the following and more:

Flocking 

Nodal flocking - Predator/Prey behaviour - Attract/Avoid meshes

Bullet Dynamics 

Deforming bodies - Forces

Interchange 

After Effects interchange

FiberFX 

New UI - Bundles and Braids

Genoma 

Full rigging system

Modeler 

Line Pen - Heat Shrink - Axis Translate/Rotate/Scale - Transform - Chamfer - Place Mesh - Slice - Thicken - Straighten - Edit Edges - ABF Unwrap UVs - Select by Normal - Pick Surface - New Paste Behaviour

Workflow Enhancements 

Node Editor Probe - Curved node Connectors - Dome Light with Image - MDD Multi-Loader - DoF, Motion Blur and Refraction in VPR - Advanced Camera support in VPR - Rolling Shutter - Motion Path Frame display - Nodal Metalink - Fit Selected and Fit All