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Any speed or dramatic advantages of LW2015 over V11?

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:32 am
by asher
Any speed or dramatic advantages of LW2015 over V11 using Octane?

Any reason "must upgrade" to use LW2015 over 11?

Thank you in advance! :shock:

Re: Any speed or dramatic advantages of LW2015 over V11?

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:45 am
by atnreg
Juanjo or someone else can confirm/deny/tell details but I remember some newer features are not available in LW11 with Octane :)

But in general, LW is one of the rare products that always is recommended to upgrade or update, it never fails to be pleasant :)
At least for me new features in LW2015 alone were huge benefit and there are always a long list of improvements. And one very important thing is that with LW2015 there is new PDF manual so no need to browse through numerous 'addendums' anymore :)

And there is Siggraph sale 10-17 Aug (don't know if that applies to upgrades though) so go for it fast!

Antti

Re: Any speed or dramatic advantages of LW2015 over V11?

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:55 am
by juanjgon
The LightWave 2015 plugin supports hair rendering using the Layout FiberFX tool. This is a feature not supported by the LightWave 11.6 plugin.

Anyway I agree, 2015 has some useful new features and a lot of bugs fixed. It works really fine. I also recommend to upgrade it ;)

-Juanjo

Re: Any speed or dramatic advantages of LW2015 over V11?

Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 12:59 am
by asher
Gracias Juancho!

Re: Any speed or dramatic advantages of LW2015 over V11?

Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 4:09 am
by asher
Just upgraded.