NewTek redefines CORE application development
Jun 23, 2011 by CGP Staff
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In a move reminiscent of Autodesk’s experience with 3DS Max’s Nitrous rewrite, two years and a few months after the official LightWave CORE announcement, NewTek has posted a message directed at LightWave users saying that they have “decided to change course for how [they] intend to deliver CORE technology”, and that the company plans “to implement the CORE technology advancements directly into LightWave itself, in an iterative fashion”. CORE as a standalone project is no longer in the works. Interestingly enough, the original developers of LightWave, Allen Hastings and Stuart Ferguson (authors of Aegis Videoscape and Modeler), left NewTek 10 years ago to form Luxology over differences on implementing a LightWave rewrite, according to Wikipedia. More at NewTek.
Very interesting. It appears that it’s all about business and politics not the engineering standing in the way of advancement.
Joel is right… http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Bummer, I was looking forward to see what they had going on with all the hype I had seen. Lightwave was my second choice for a package a decade ago, with c4d a close second. I really like they way both of them are laid out.
@Vlado: Very interesting article. Lots of common sense. Thanks for the link.
@John: You can always try Modo, considering Allen Hastings and Stuart Ferguson are some if its main architects I’m sure you’ll find some parts of the workflow familiar.