can Lightwave 3D use Nvidia CUDA cores?
starionwolf
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Just wondering if the render engine [in Lightwave 3D] can take advantage of cuda cores. I couldn't find the answer. I tried to search for the answer online but I couldn't find any answsers. I did discover that Poser 11 and above can.
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Apparently the Newtek forums are full of people asking why there isn't a GPU rendering option, and also speculation on whether Lightwave is even still being developed, so the evidence suggests to me that Lightwave doesn't currently and may never offer GPU acceleration. A simpler indication is that they don't advertise GPU integration anywhere that I could see.
Also, unrelated, while Googling this question, Google offered a drop-down labeled "free alternatives", which included Maya, C4D and a number of other very not-free alternatives.
As far as I know it's Otoy Octane or CPU only. Even Chaos does not develop for Lightwave.
https://forums.newtek.com/#lightwave-3d-user-community.167
Sounds like a much better place to ask questions about Lightwave.
thanks for the information. I was just curious. I'm going to continue using Iray in Daz Studio. Maybe I'll go read about with Blender Cycles if I have time.