It offers artists the opportunity to pair our award-winning LightWave 2015 3D software with some of the most impressive plugins on the market today at no additional cost. “We are excited to team up with 3 rd Powers to deliver the Powerful Creativity bundle for SIGGRAPH Week 2015. “Artists are always looking for powerful and creative ways to work in 3D,” said Rob Powers, president, LightWave 3D Group. This offer is available only on the LightWave website at Registered owners of LightWave can upgrade to LightWave 2015 for $495 (USD) during the August 10-17, 2015 time period and receive free of charge the 3 rd Powers LW Brush plugin, valued at $169 (USD). These include LW Brush, Cage Deformer, Lattice Deformer, Meta Mesh, Boolean Tool, and Heat Shrink Plus. During the week of August 10-17, 2015, artists who buy LightWave 2015 for $995 (USD) will receive free of charge the entire suite of 3 rd Powers plugins for LightWave valued at more than $600 (USD). For completely new users, licences cost $995.SIGGRAPH Week 2015 - AugThe LightWave 3D® Group, a division of NewTek, Inc., has teamed up with Japan-based software developer 3 rd Powers to deliver the “Powerful Creativity Bundle,“ featuring a new full license of LightWave 2015 and a complete suite of plugins for LightWave created by 3 rd Powers. The current release of the software, LightWave 2020, is available for 64-bit Windows 7+ and macOS 10.12+. Upgrade pricing is covered in the story above. LightWave 2023 is due for release in “Q4 2023”. Price, system requirements and release date There is currently no information about the new features scheduled for LightWave 2023 on the website, but LightWave Digital boss Andrew Bishop has posted on Discord that the information is coming “soon”. The upgrades are available from the new LightWave website – it’s password-protected, but the password has been announced on the Discord server. The basic pre-order bundles include one share, while anyone willing to stump up $1,000 gets five shares, plus “25% off LightWave 3D forever”, which seems like something of a hostage to fortune. Unusually, LightWave Digital has chosen to include “shares in LightWave” as part of the offer – company shares, according to this post on the LightWave Discord server. Users with licences of LightWave 2020, the final Vizrt release of the software, can pre-order LightWave 2023 for $250 those with older versions can pre-order for $500, which includes access to LightWave 2020. The announcement is the first step towards a new LightWave product roadmap following LightWave Digital’s acquisition of the software from previous owner Vizrt last month. Upgrade packages include shares in LightWave Digital itself The new version is now available to pre-order for users with existing licences of the software, with upgrade pricing also including shares in LightWave Digital itself. LightWave Digital has announced that LightWave 2023, the first update to the 3D animation software in over three years, will be released in “Q4 2023”.
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