Forum: Animation


Subject: Should I use RDS 5 or upgrade to Lightwave

Justice opened this issue on Apr 09, 2000 ยท 3 posts


Shroud posted Thu, 20 April 2000 at 8:37 PM

I think that you should move to lightwave. Many of the problems that you are having are alleviated with a simple change in solutions. I have lightwave 5.0 and I have used Raydream, just purchased Carrara, I have 3D studio max and I bought Poser 3 in 1998. Lightwave 5.0, the version I have, as dated as it is still outperforms all of the titles I previously mentioned. Lightwave is a solid and complete package that has excellent support, groups, and has a great history in mass media. Lightwave however is not as user friendly as these other titles, but it is far more user friendly than 3D studio max; it has tons more to offer for the money as well. Furthermore as for animation in Poser from Lightwave, I have done that and you will find that by setting up your own object skeleton in your complete figures exported from Poser or figures you created yourself is far better than poser as you can more easily correct the linking mistakes that exist in the Poser solutions. Raydream is a good solution, but lightwave is just lightyears better and far more stable and you will be able to do more with it whether you are doing analog or digital productions.