What is LightWorks?

• LightWorks is a set of software components that power the world’s leading rendering applications.
• Software development companies use LightWorks to provide their users - you - with high performance and high quality rendering solutions.
• We at LightWork Design license LightWorks to software development companies who then integrate LightWorks into their applications to give you access to our leading-edge rendering technology. We do not sell end-user applications.
• LightWorks is used in numerous rendering applications and has over 1 million users, making it the world’s leading rendering engine – far ahead of any other.
• Our success is founded on the high quality of our solutions and our innovative development strategy that continues to lead the industry.

We also provide add-ons to LightWorks that can be used directly by users. See our “Downloads” page for the add-ons currently available for LWA-Enabled applications.

If you want to create the highest quality images then you should ask the developer of your software if they use LightWorks. Alternatively, you can ask your software supplier to recommend an application that uses LightWorks.

LightWorks is a suite of software components that provide software developers with a wide range of rendering functionality, from photorealistic interactivity to leading global illumination solutions.

As a user of rendering software you don’t need to know the technical details, just that LightWorks lets software developers give you high quality, easy-to-use image creation solutions.

If you do want to know a bit more about the technical details of how it all works, the diagram below shows the major functional areas of LightWorks.

The core of LightWorks is the Foundation product. On top of Foundation, our customers add a set of products, chosen from the LightWorks product suite, to create easy-to-use rendering products that match the needs of their target markets.

The GUI Framework allows our customers to supply you with easy-to-use user-interfaces to the technology within LightWorks – clever technology is of no use unless it is provided with an easy-to-use user-interface!

All our technology is supplied to our customers using a powerful Application Programmer’s Interface (API) – a series of functions written in the C and C++ programming languages. Our customers integrate LightWorks into their applications using this powerful API, to provide you with easy-to-use and flexible rendering solutions.

Here are some of the reasons why LightWorks has been integrated into the best software applications:

• LightWorks has been designed from the start to be a set of software components for integrating into applications, so it provides the flexibility and power that is necessary for software developers who want to create high quality and performing rendering solutions.
• LightWorks lets you render your images quickly and accurately, even during the design process.
• LightWorks provides you with the ability to simulate a wide range of sophisticated materials, colors and textures.
• LightWorks lets you represent real lighting situations for maximum accuracy.

If you are a software developer and want to know how LightWorks can be implemented into your software application, please visit the LightWorks product page on our corporate site.

To learn more about LightWork Design and our products, please visit www.lightworkdesign.com.