LightWorks HDRI Starter Collection
LightWork Design recently released a stunning collection of High Dynamic Range Image files for use within LightWorks-based applications.

The new LightWorks HDRI Starter Collection compliments the HDRI functionality in LightWorks and has been created so that customers and their users can see the difference that HDRIs can make to the accuracy and photorealism of their images.

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NVIDIA Graphics Board Programme
LightWork Design has been working in partnership with NVIDIA Corporation - a worldwide leader in visual processing solutions - to enhance the interactive performance of LightWorks when used with NVDIA hardware. This working relationship is focused on bringing the power of the LightWorks rendering solution and the advanced LightWorks shading infrastructure to NVIDIA hardware that supports Cg, NVIDIA's high level shader development language.

NVIDIA and LightWork Design have arranged for licencees of LightWorks to get significant discounts on NVIDIA hardware, as well as the opportunity for customers of LightWork Design to give their users access to special NVIDIA promotions when using LightWorks-based applications. You can get more details about these promotions by contacting your account manager.

Real-time Information Pack and White Paper
Tremendous advances in graphics hardware technology have been made over the last two years including the introduction by 3DLabs, ATI and NVIDIA of hardware-assisted, high-level programmable shading on their graphics hardware. The LightWorks rendering engine toolkit is the most cost-effective and practical solution for software application developers that want to integrate hardware shading into their application - especially as it is the only engine that is designed to be device-independent, so that applications using LightWorks Real-time can run seamlessly on graphics boards supporting either OGLSL or Cg.

We have created a special Real-time Information Pack which details more about this important topic and includes a white paper written by LightWork Design entitled 'Programmable Hardware Shading in Applications '.

Rich Photorealistic Content (RPC)
RPC describes the software and content associated with ArchVision's award winning Image-Based Rendering technology. RPC has rapidly become the preferred industry method of incorporating complex objects into 3D environments. Cross-platform support for RPC people, trees and other objects is now available in LightWorks. This new functionality is closely integrated into the standard LightWorks API, providing customers with an extremely quick and cost-effective way to add RPC support to their applications. More

LightWork Design continues to work closely with a number of leading material suppliers and standards organisations to bring a constantly increasing collection of real-world materials in the LWA format to users of LWA-Enabled applications. These materials give users the power to accurately select, render and specify ranges of real-world content within their designs.

Recently released material libraries include:

All of these materials - and more - are available for download from the LightWorks-User website www.lightworks-user.com

LightWork Design exhibited at this year's SIGGRAPH exhibition, held in Los Angeles. The show was a great success for us and the feedback we received from users who visited our stand confirmed that there is great interest in the new components which we are launching in LightWorks. In fact, many users can't wait to see these integrated within their favourite rendering systems!

Highlights included:

• High Dynamic Range Images (HDRI) for real-world lighting
• Advanced, hybrid technology for seamless software-hardware rendering
• Cross-platform plug-in shaders for easier application upgrade
• Customizable user-interface layer for fast integration
• Real-world materials and Content ... going beyond 'pretty pictures'

We were pleased to meet so many of our customers during the show and we look forward to arranging the integration of all the exciting new features we previewed.

For those of you who were unable to make it to LA, you can read a PDF version of this year's Siggraph brochure on our website here

Graphisoft Licences LightWorks for ArchiCAD 9
Graphisoft, a world leader in intelligent 3D building modeling and Virtual Building(TM) Solutions, has included LightWorks functionality as an integrated part of their core ArchiCAD product to give users access to powerful, high-quality LightWorks rendering from directly inside the standard ArchiCAD user-interface and environment. More

TurboCAD Professional 10 includes new version of LightWorks
Version 10 of TurboCAD Professional from IMSI includes a new version of the powerful LightWorks rendering engine, integrated as a core part of the application. This integration gives a dramatically faster level of rendering performance for users as well as introducing a number of new features which appeal to CAD users. More

Lighting Technologies licenses LightWorks for Lumen Designer
Lighting Technologies, a leading provider of lighting software, optical design services, and custom software solutions worldwide, has licensed LightWorks for use within their lighting design and analysis software - Lumen Designer. More

RenderWorks gets artistic inspiration by licensing LightWorks Sketch
Artistic RenderWorks is a new rendering mode in RenderWorks 11 that creates renders of 3D models with soft, hand-drawn effects. It uses LightWorks Sketch to work directly from the 3D model to give designers the ability to instantly generate non-photorealistic and hand-drawn images that can very quickly be re-rendered from any viewpoint, without having to use other tools. More

Solid Edge creates Virtual Studio+ using LightWorks rendering engine
Virtual Studio+ is a new companion photorealistic and artistic sketch-based rendering module for Solid Edge version 16. Solid Edge has expanded its capability for customers to create photorealistic and sketch images by incorporating LightWorks rendering technology. More

TopAEC uses LightWorks to integrate RPC support in record time
The 2004 version of software from TopAEC integrates LightWorks support for RPC (Rich Photorealistic Content) technology, enabling users to enhance the realism of their images by easily adding RPC objects to give scale and context to their designs and extra realism. More

"We chose LightWorks because it is the rendering engine that best matches our requirements, enabling us to create a powerful and extensible rendering solution that is very closely integrated within ArchiCAD and GDL. The unique close integration capability of LightWorks gives our users access to high quality rendering right within their familiar ArchiCAD environment."
Bence Kovacs, VP of Product Management at Graphisoft

"We are particularly pleased to have integrated LightWorks within Virtual Studio+ as we believe that including such advanced technology will enhance our competitive position within the market place."
Dan Staples, director of the Solid Edge business unit for UGS at Solid Edge.

"We are very happy with the way LightWork Design worked with us; the response of the LightWorks support team, as well as the developers, was simply superb."
Richard Diehl, CEO at Nemetschek NA

"We are particularly pleased with the ease of integration of LightWorks; the support we received from LightWork Design was second to none."
Ridha Baccari, Technology Director at TopAEC

"The performance of the new LightWorks engine has improved on the already industry-leading rendering performance of complex designs. Combined with enhanced photorealistic rendering capabilities, it allows users to create digital designs which are so realistic it is difficult to distinguish them from actual photographs."
Mauritz Botha director of product development, IMSI

"The high quality and accuracy of the images created by LightWorks makes it very easy to present and explain designs to our clients."
Ms. Suzuki, user of ArchiTrend 21, a LightWorks-based application

"Working with LightWork Design on this project has given us the opportunity to get our award-winning flooring products in front of designers worldwide, at the specification stage, giving them the perfect opportunity to be utilised in a realistic digital form which was simply not possible before now."
Tracey Blunsdon of Mannington

"In our constant pursuit to exceed expectations, we have taken this step to work with LightWork Design to allow us to release our Avonite surface materials to architects and specifiers in a new digital format. I believe that the use of these digital archives will give designers limitless freedom to create and specify using our vast array of innovative and creative solid surfacing."
Nick Butler, Managing Director of Sylmar

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