{"id":24330,"date":"2026-02-01T20:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=24330"},"modified":"2026-03-22T12:59:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:59:02","slug":"lightwave-26-due-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/lightwave-26-due-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightwave 26 &#8211; due soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberty3d.com\/2026\/03\/lightwave3d-2026-technology-demo\/\">LightWave3D 2026 Technology Demo<\/a>, 21st March 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The venerable LightWave 3D software&#8230; still alive, and still free for education users. An open beta for the forthcoming Lightwave 26 is reportedly set for spring 2026, with &#8220;speed increases for rendering and interface&#8221; along with&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;over 50 new features and 30+ interface changes, alongside under-the-hood improvements for speed. Planned features include SDF (non-polygon geometry), glTF, Ripper 2, OpenColorIO, Ocean Boat and Wake, Motor Rig, Chronoscope, USD True Fillet, Rig It tidy-up, a quadruped system, Octane updates, snow and lightning generators with animatable controls, flame fractals, a new fracture tool, Construct update, an asset browser, and AP (physics-based object placement)&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However it sounds like the Poser 11 -> E-on Vue route to exporting Poser scenes for recent versions of Lightwave could be bjorked&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;due to 26&#8217;s focus on utilizing newer technologies, potentially cutting off older systems.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though that might just mean it won&#8217;t run on older PCs and older graphics cards? My guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: LightWave3D 2026 Technology Demo, 21st March 2026. The venerable LightWave 3D software&#8230; still alive, and still free for education users. An open beta for the forthcoming Lightwave 26 is reportedly set for spring 2026, with &#8220;speed increases for rendering and interface&#8221; along with&#8230; &#8220;over 50 new features and 30+ interface changes, alongside under-the-hood improvements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24453,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24330\/revisions\/24453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}