Lightwave is very good software, I dont have tried now in version 8 or early but using ClothFX or SoftFX in high density meshs was a great problem in the past...  but now Lightwave have its internal hair system that is pretty amazing... send news when you tried all this tools togheter. I was a Lightwave user for long time but I like more to create illustration so I decided to use Carrara that can support content in a very easy way now and have a very good and fast render engine.

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