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In article <shfCJy3x4.K6L@netcom.com> shf@netcom.com (Stuart Ferguson) writes:
> +-- or@silicon.hanse.de (Ottmar Roehrig) writes:
> | In article <shfCJtIw0.B5s@netcom.com> shf@netcom.com (Stuart Ferguson) writes:
> | > | ... compare Lightwave with Softimage in terms of functionality ...
> | > Sure -- I'd like to hear it.  Rail on.
> 
> | Then please tell me something you can do with Lightwave, which
> | Softimage can't. You were referring to Lightwave as _the_ greatest
> | 3D-software on earth and this is simply not true. I am not talking
> | about the price-difference here.
> 
> I was not the one who claimed LightWave was "best on Earth."  I also
> cannot fulfil your request as I have only seen demos of SoftImage and
> have never used it for real work.  I have used LightWave to make
> short-subject animations, however.
> 
> Actually I was hoping you could name one or two dozen SoftImage features
> that blow LightWave out of the water.  I'd quite seriously like to hear
> your opinion about real features.  I am not interested in posturing and
> hyperbole.

Sorry for responding so late, but I was away from my machine for more
than one week...

The functions I really like at Softimage, which AFAIK are not included
in Lightwave are the possibilities for spline- and
lattice-deformation, wrapping of objects with skins, which
automatically adjust their behaviour according to the bending of the
original-object, the particel-system, the metaball-editor, the
wave-generator, the AMAP-module, all the functions for inverse
kinematics which allow me to simulate wind, gravity, collision
detection, all the possibilites given by the editable function curves
and so on.

I must admit that I have not used Lightwave, I just saw some demos at
fairs over here in Germany and was able to play with it a day long at
ASDG. I have used Softimage though and still find it much more
powerful, though certain things (like the simulation of gas) are IMHO
better done by Lightwave.

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