Why move to Blender from LightWave 3D?

LW2B.com is a community resource to help LightWave 3D users move from LightWave software to Blender. For those users with years – or even weeks! – of experience with LightWave,

The section that follows provide an “FAQ” for newcomers to the website and community.

Why is the established LightWave 3D community moving to Blender?

Why is the LightWave 3D community moving to Blender? Good question! Many of us love LightWave 3D and have devoted years of our time to learning the software, testing it, and supporting the community built around the software.

Why Blender?

Blender is already an established, mature software alternative to LightWave 3D.

It is free, open source software which you can download from Blender.org here.

How do I get started with Blender?

If you’re moving from LightWave 3D to Blender, start with our Blender tutorials here – the first in the series is installing Blender for LightWave 3D users.

There are plenty of Blender tutorials online. Why create this site?

There are plenty of excellent resources for Blender tutorials online, including:

• Blender.org’s own tutorials
• Blender Guru’s tutorials
• Instructable’s Blender guides

We created LW2B.com as a community for existing LightWave 3D users who are looking to migrate to Blender. Our aim is to create Blender tutorials for LightWave 3D users, to help the LightWave 3D community move to Blender.