New licences of LWCAD for LightWave cost $349 new licences of LWCAD for Cinema 4D cost $179. The old 3ds Max edition was discontinued last year. LWCAD 2020 is available for 64-bit LightWave 9.6+ on Windows and 64-bit LightWave 10+ on macOS, and Cinema 4D R21+ on Windows and macOS. Veličko has also announced that the next major update to the Cinema 4D edition, LWCAD 2021 for Cinema 4D, will bring the plugin’s feature set far more closely in line with the LightWave edition.įeature due to be ported over include the “full NURBS curves system”, and the curves primitives and curves editing tools. The update also streamlines the plugin’s auto-parenting system and features “huge speed optimisation”. LWCAD 2020 for Cinema 4D is more of a performance and compatiblity update, with the plugin now fully supporting Cinema 4D n-gons, and more tools recognising Cinema 4D polygon selections. All Mike Udin products have been updated for Cinema 4D 2023. Redshift version 3.5.8 and higher is fully compatible with C4D 2023. It’s intended primarily as a tool for debugging models: for example, to identify disconnected edges.Ĭinema 4D edition: better integration with the host software HDR Light Studio, HDR Light Studio Automotive, and HDR Light Studio Indie support Cinema 4D 2023 (Including Apple Silicon), as of 20 September 2022. The update also introduces a new tool for inspecting the geometry of Mesh TR surfaces, Topology TR, which shows connections between the curves and edges, and the indices of edges, curve segments and points. The Road tool, which converts networks of covers into procedural road system, has also been reinstated and updated to work with Mesh TR, as shown at 22:45 in the video above. Mesh TR is intended to help optimise tools for different geometry types, and supports CPU multithreading.įeatures newly compatible with Mesh TR in LWCAD 2020 include general-purpose tools for offsetting or refining curves and edges, and for freezing NURBS geometry into polygons. Introduced in LWCAD 2018.3, it further divides geometry into a series of smaller “special cases”: for example, quad and triangular polygon meshes are handled separately. Many of the changes in the LightWave edition of the software are updates to existing features to make them compatible with the software’s new Mesh TR representation of geometry. LightWave edition: more tools now compatible with Mesh TR The Cinema 4D edition is newer, and supports a smaller set of features for polygonal and Boolean modelling. It includes tools for editing both polygonal geometry and NURBS surfaces, plus a real-time Boolean system. Powerful polygonal, NURBS and Boolean modelling tools for CAD artists and general users alikeĪ fixture of many LightWave artists’ toolboxes, LWCAD provides a set of CAD tools within the software, although the plugin is also widely used for general-purpose modelling. The LightWave edition of LWCAD 2020 actually came out last year, but the Cinema 4D edition shipped earlier this week, so this seems like a good opportunity to look at both. LightWave users get more tools compatible with the software’s new Mesh TR respresentation of geometry, plus a new mesh topology inspector Cinema 4D users get better integration with the host software. WTools3D – aka developer Viktor Veličko – has released LWCAD 2020, the new version of the popular modelling plugin for LightWave and Cinema 4D. Posted by Jim Thacker WTools3D ships LWCAD 2020 for LightWave and Cinema 4D
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