By Iamnotmad (Iamnotmad) (208.239.83.41) on Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 04:31 pm:

What can you tell us about Rendering performance on LW7 with OSX? Is it improved over 6.5b? Any other specific mac (or OSX) optimizations? Whatever ya got!

Also do you know if OSX 10.1 (due in sep) will improve rendering performance over the current 10.0.4?

Thanks for the info.

By Matthew Craig (Mattc) (64.244.37.0) on Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 05:34 pm:

OK, in a week or so, a special "LightWave 7 OS X TuneUp" will be posted. After running the tuneup, LW 7 will render faster on OS X than on 9 (this is on 10.0.4). 10.1 will make things even better by speeding up the interface and GL.

By Stephen Enggass (Enggass) (216.227.148.206) on Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 06:44 pm:

Any chance of a 6.5b OSX TuneUp?
Steve E

By Ted Lee (Tedlee) (66.56.78.50) on Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 08:51 pm:

I've been using OS X 10.1 (Build 5F26) with Lightwave. While I can't comment on rendering times (Layout won't launch under 5F26), Modeler seems much more responsive on the G4/400 896RAM/Radeon. I just got shipping confirmation for my dual800, so I should have that by Friday, and should be able to do some benchmarking tests this weekend to see how it stacks up.

Matt - do you have inside info or is this just speculation?

By Chuck Baker (Cbaker) (207.235.86.2) on Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 11:32 am:

Matt is the lead Mac programmer on the LW Team...

By Matthew Craig (Mattc) (64.244.37.0) on Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 11:33 am:

Well, I have a bit of inside info since you'll see my name on the about box Seriously though, we want to test the tuneup a bit more and then we'll release it. It basically replaces some C library system calls with my own versions. The reason for this is that the current OS X versions of these calls (and unfortunately the current 10.1 ones as well) are anywhere from 5 to 10 times slower on X than 9 - hence the rendering disparity. The good news is that while the rendering speedup is the most obvious result of the tuneup, many other ops will speed up as well (bone deforms, IK, many Modeler funcs).

BTW, I have no trouble running LW on 10.1 (but for obvious reasons, I've only run 7.0 on 10.1) - I'll do some regression tests on 6.x & 10.1 when I get back from SIGGRAPH.

And finally, as for 6.5b tuneup, I'll see what I can do. It's a bit tricky to go back and make the necessary changes and still make sure that the rest of the Apps are the exact same, but I'll do what I can. Everyone should be able to have a well performing LW on X without having to upgrade to 7. Unfortunately, I suspect that 10.1 may break 6.5 as Apple has made some changes. Again, I'll investigate these issues as soon as I get back. I'm sorry I can't give better answers on the 6.5 issue but as you might imagine, I was a bit busy with 7 before the show

By Daryl Cornutt (Dfc) (165.247.48.197) on Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 11:51 am:

Thanks Matt and Chuck!

By Stephen Enggass (Enggass) (206.26.225.35) on Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 11:57 am:

Thank you... for the update!
Steve E

By Dan Carr (Dancarr) (142.165.18.227) on Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 12:51 pm:

I'm a little unclear... OSX 10.1 will break LW 6.5 or 6.5b?

By Iamnotmad (Iamnotmad) (208.239.83.41) on Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 01:00 pm:

Thanks for responding, and this sounds like great news! Much appreciated.

By Ted Lee (Tedlee) (66.56.78.50) on Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 01:08 pm:

Great news! Thanks Chuck, Matt. You're hard work is much appreciated!

Cheers,
Ted

By david lubell (Dlubell) (12.96.176.25) on Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 05:24 pm:

thanks for the info...
what about being able to use qtime movies and being able to turn back on the anim.loader i turned off a while back..and to be able to render 2 threads using image seqs or qtime movies..will that be fixed on 6.5b?

By Brynn Neilson (Brynn) (203.79.89.7) on Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 11:49 pm:

Hi All! I've just installed Ligntwave 7 on 5 Macs at our design college and are trying to get ScreamerNet working. Has anyone had any success getting ScreamerNet to go without AppleTalk? We have MS 2000 as our central server (not my decision).

brynn :-)

By Beam Tracer (Beamtracer) (198.142.208.42) on Monday, March 18, 2002 - 09:40 am:

Brynn: You may get more people responding to your Screamernet comment if you post it on one of the many Screamernet threads that have been going for the past week, rather than randomly placing your comment within another subject.

Mathew: You should sell your new OS-X C-Libraries back to Apple.

By tim anderson (Tim) (24.31.96.61) on Monday, March 18, 2002 - 10:09 am:

beam... look at the date on this post from matt c.