LightWork Design announces release of LightWorks 6.5

Major product enhancements to world's leading rendering engine

SHEFFIELD, UK - 20 November 2001 - LightWork Design, the world's leading supplier of quality advanced computer graphics software for rendering, simulation and visualisation solutions, today announced the launch of the newest release of its flagship product, LightWorks version 6.5 - the industry's fastest rendering engine.

This newest release builds upon the product's success in the industry by adding significant new features to further enhance its performance including:

Perceptual Tone Mapping

Perceptual tone mapping has been enhanced within LightWorks 6.5 to improve both quality and flexibility. This enhanced functionality provides a completely automatic perceptual tone mapping mechanism that does not require user-intervention. This means that users can create natural-looking images more easily, particularly in radiosity or global illumination scenes that contain large variations in image brightness.

Roof Tiles Shader

The large LightWorks shader library has been increased further with the addition of a new Roof Tiles Shader. This allows users to visualize a wide range of roof tile shapes and colors which are ideal for use within architectural and graphics applications. The roof tiles shader also includes the analytical anti-aliasing (A3) capability, a feature unique to LightWorks, which gives superior performance over other renderers and assures the highest possible image quality at any scale, view or angle.

Session Manager

The Session Manager provides application developers with a high level API to LightWorks, making it very easy for them to integrate, maintain and enhance their LightWorks-based applications. By providing a high-level API that is highly customisable, the Session Manager allows integrations of LightWorks to be completed in rapid time, therefore reducing time-to-market and increasing return on investment for application developers. The Session Manager is now supplied with LightWorks Lite, enabling all customers to take advantage of this feature.

GUI Framework

The LightWorks GUI Framework provides customers with a comprehensive, easy-to-use user-interface which can be customised to suit end-user requirements. LightWorks 6.5 contains many enhancements to the GUI Framework, including support for localisation of GUI components into any language.

Japanese localisation

In conjunction with the recent opening of the LightWork Design Japan office, LightWorks 6.5 includes full Japanese localisation of all user-interface components, including material names, shaders, lights, shader parameters and other entities. By supplying fully localised user-interface components, customers benefit from being able to release their applications very quickly and within a significantly shorter development period.

About LightWorks

LightWorks is the industry's leading rendering engine. Applications that incorporate LightWorks include: ArchiTrend from Fukui, CDRS from PTC, Form-Z from auto-des-sys, Madric 2000 from CPU, PowerShape from Delcam, SolidThinking from Gestel, SolidWorks from Dassault, ThinkReal from Think3, Unigraphics from EDS PLM Solutions, VectorWorks from Nemetschek North America, Vellum Solids from Ashlar and products from many other major CAD vendors.

About LightWork Design

LightWork Design is the world's leading supplier of quality advanced computer graphics software for rendering, simulation and visualization solutions within CAD, CAM & AEC markets. Established in 1989, LightWork Design continues to invest in research and development to provide its customer base with innovative and market-focused technology. The company's products are used in more than 150 software applications worldwide and by one million 3D software users.

LightWork Design offers LightWorks for photorealistic rendering and lighting simulation, MachineWorks for CNC toolpath simulation and verification, and NavisWorks for visualisation, interactive navigation and co-ordination in design review.

For the new webpage about LightWorks 6.5, click here www.lightworkdesign.com/products/lightworks/6.0/LW6.5.htm 

 

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