Happy Holiday 3D News from NewTek! - Page 2

Sekhar · 12-19-2008, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck

When you see the list of new features and enhancements (sans bug fixes) in one place, it really puts the cycle into perspective:

v9.6 New Features and Improvements (as of about 20-some builds ago)

I'll catch the list up to date after the holidays.

Yes sirry Bob... I mean Chuck! We concur!

c.1 · 12-19-2008, 05:09 PM

Congrats to ALL the Newtek team!!!!! You guys ROCK!!

I Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
(sorry not PC I meant Happy Holidays)

Chris (from the great white north)

Cageman · 12-19-2008, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by joelaff

Jay, nice to see what you, Granger, and the rest of the team have done with Lightwave. I loved EI, and now we have all the good parts of it in LW. Fantastic product!

I have to agree... Ever since Jay joined NT and the (new) LW-team got together, things finaly started to move in the right direction. We all know alot of people who thought LW would die a few years back, but now they are more or less getting some serious slapping in their faces.

Alot of work ahead, of course, but... I'm here to stay!

jay3d · 12-19-2008, 05:17 PM

Thanks Jay, Mark, Chuck, Jon, Antti and all others for your hardwork on this release, it was a great adventure hunting bugs all those months

It made me stressed all this period testing mostly all aspects of every beta build, searching for issues, but it was great

Now back on studying more the SDK, and back to my Fisica dynamics system development after this long halt,

Thanks again guys for your patience, and Merry Christmas to u and your families

KevinL · 12-19-2008, 05:26 PM

Thank You. All the other kids (other software companies) hate you, throw pens at you, call you uncool names.... oh wait a minute that was MY school experience

You were at the top of the class in terms of kicking butt and taking names during this development cycle.

I have figured out the secret. There are no humans at Newtek. You had developed a trans dimensional link to a future version of the super "cloud" computing initiative and were letting it develop the software. How else can the insane pace of development have occurred.... ?

nah, just a bunch of really talented people who more than stepped up. Thank You everyone.

Happy Holidays,
Kevin L

lwanmtr · 12-19-2008, 05:30 PM

Great news about 951 getting to release candidate status and that we'll be on 9.6 soon...
I do have to ask (it wasnt mentioned in the 9.6 post either)..What about Mac-64bit?

cagey5 · 12-19-2008, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by lwanmtr

Great news about 951 getting to release candidate status and that we'll be on 9.6 soon...
I do have to ask (it wasnt mentioned in the 9.6 post either)..What about Mac-64bit?

We already have 9.6. It's build #1525 as just relesed.

Larry_g1s · 12-19-2008, 05:40 PM

I just want to say a BIG thanks to the NEWTEK company and dev. team. With all the builds being released, I do agree that any reasonable person can see the amount of time/energy/and dedication, that has gone in to making LW what it is and why so many of us have continued with it all these years.

I for one am very excited with the direction LW is going and looking very much forward to v10!

Merry Christmas.

Bog · 12-19-2008, 05:50 PM

Chuck. Dude. Totally in perspective. In proportions one, by four, by nine

Wickster · 12-19-2008, 05:50 PM

A big thanks and happy holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Years, Omisoka, did I miss anything>

) to all the NT staff and Dev Teams. Fantastic work on this series...I hardly had time to catch up during the final releases, it's so quick that things I find were already fixed before I found them.

Hope you all get a good break during this holiday season and spend time with your family and love ones (no not your workstations unless you take it home).

Cageman · 12-19-2008, 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck

When you see the list of new features and enhancements (sans bug fixes) in one place, it really puts the cycle into perspective:

v9.6 New Features and Improvements (as of about 20-some builds ago)

I'll catch the list up to date after the holidays.

*LOL*

That list puts things into perspective... wow...

kfinla · 12-19-2008, 06:00 PM

Great work!, looking forward to the what the future holds in the new year.

Andy Webb · 12-19-2008, 06:17 PM

Like everyone else here, thanks NT for all your efforts and Merry Christmas to everyone

mav3rick · 12-19-2008, 06:22 PM

to chuck'o'neel, jay and resto gang there... you did tremendous amount of work on 9.x cycle and for that i am sure there is no single LW user that will not agree on this.
personally lw 9.x is one of best lw dev cycles in past decade of lw exsistance if not in entire history from both dev team passion for making lw best 3d tool around and newtek users approach (open beta).
with all that in mind and this horrible things happening around globe on economy side i hope the word of 9 will spread out with good vibe and that it will help lightwave community and development to grow.
it would be nice of you community guys that have any extra time to spread great word about lw 9.x specially the latest 9.6 and let people around know how much effort newtek put into this single best gem that will shine until lw 10 come out... ofcourse we can all dream about what could be accomplished in lw 9.x but from user point of view if newtek continue work on 9.x cycle i would call this a steal.. we have get more than enough for FREE upgrades that i really feel bad asking for more and for that all kudos to newtek that have stay behind theyr words about free upgrades.
once more i am proud to be user of lightwave back in v3.5 days and today i am even more proud to see new lightwave dev team working all together to make lightwave come back to where it deserve...
have nothin more to add but community will be there to keep you up and running in future....

ah yes forgot to tell merry xmass and all the best in 2009 from both health, happiness and money too all of you guys and your families.

sorry for me bad english.

Matt · 12-19-2008, 06:24 PM

Thanks for the news Jay!

Once again, Newtek deliver a HUGE free update, I don't know anyone else who does as much for their users.

9.6 is a solid release, I've been using the beta builds at work and it has been as stable as a regular release, which goes to show how many bugs have been removed.

The speed of the Global Illumination in this release has allowed me for the first time to use it on the interior work I do, normally we would use FPrime.

I can't wait to hear what's in store for v10!

Please thank the whole development team, they've done an outstanding job, and the best is yet to come! The future is indeed a shiny bright one!