{"id":3017,"date":"2021-02-05T23:27:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T05:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2021-02-05T23:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T05:28:22","slug":"lightwave-2020-will-have-a-learning-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2021\/02\/lightwave-2020-will-have-a-learning-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightwave 2020 Will Have A Learning Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got Lightwave properly installed &#8211; thanks to <a title=\"You'll always be Moridin to me.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanexile.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UrbanExile<\/a> and with absolutely zero help from Newtek support (ugh). Unlike previous upgrades, it looks like I will need some time to study and learn about the new version. When opening up a previously created Scene in 2020, Lightwave creates new files and source directory folders. More importantly, the scene looks different, with the Textures\/ Shaders (and thus renders) affected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/LW_VersionComp.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3011 size-medium\" title=\"The renders differ even more than the Open GL's\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/LW_VersionComp-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am a little torn about this. To be honest, at the moment I don&#8217;t have the time to learn new software. One of the reasons I like Lightwave is my familiarity with it and how it fits into my pipeline so easily. Then again, these changes could signify Newtek actually improving the software. It&#8217;s worth pointing out these changes could very well have taken place in Lightwave 2018, but I skipped that upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, it looks like they didn&#8217;t focus much on having satisfactory customer support&#8230; awful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got Lightwave properly installed &#8211; thanks to UrbanExile and with absolutely zero help from Newtek support (ugh). Unlike previous upgrades, it looks like I will need some time to study and learn about the new version. When opening up a previously created Scene in 2020, Lightwave creates new files and source directory folders. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lightwave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}