Quote - yeah Mc, I've all but given up on lightwave development. I mainly use modeler, and love the surface baking and node setup they implimented, but they are just WAY to far behind the times in so many features.

I'm muddling my way through learning Modo now, slowly weaning myself off lightwave, but I'm still keeping it around, since it's my "bread  n butter" so to speak.

IMHO newtek's developement the last year or so wasn't much better then EF's. EF got features I really wanted in poser 7, but newtek really showed that rewriting the entire app from scratch does NOT decrease developement time, it creates a whole mess of new issues, limitations, and constant code rewrites.

I REALLY would love to wave flags supporting newtek and their developement, but when I look at Modod's modeler, 3d painting, and displacement painting, and I look at newtek's modeler almost unchanged for 6 years, I just can't.

 

Yeah all Newtek has been focused on 9.2 for the last year.  the new Nodal system in Lightwave 9.2+ is really nice but it's taken quite a bit of work.  Modeler updates are coming next couple of rounds but who knows when.

I've all but given up on Poser content IN lightwave other than exporting OBJ's and importing into lightwave for stills.

Daz's Carrara seemed promising however, well, Daz took it so it's pretty much dead to me now.

I have heard really good things about interposer for Cinima 4D but I don't want to invest antoher thousand dollars in Cinema 4D just to use Poser stuff in it, way over kill.

Sad that I've invested thousands of dollars to get "PRO" software and have so many limits, it's a real shame.

I just keep waiting.....and waiting....and drawing with paper and pencils (way easyer than 3d!).