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LightWave 3D 8.2
Lightwave 3D from NewTek is an application for professional 3-D rendering. The program is thread-optimized and requires a lot of processing time.
Software: | LightWave 8.2 (NewTek) |
Version: | 8.2.1 |
Installed size: | 231 M |
Benchmark duration: | A few minutes |
Installation
The basic version 8.0 has to be installed first, before version 8.2 or 8.2.1 can be installed.
Lightwave requires a dongle to prevent illegal copies of the software.
Settings
We load the scene 'TeaserSample' from 'File » Load » Load Scene'. Then we switch to 'Render » Render Options' and adjust the following settings:
We use these setting when benchmarking with Lightwave. A maximum of eight threads produces the best results even with single-processor systems.
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Benchmarking
F10 starts the rendering sequence.
The result that interests us is called 'Rendering time'.