New LightwaveRTG for Amiga with RTG and Amiga NG.

After many months of hard work, I present our Lightwave RTG.
Lightwave RTG is a update/patch created via reverse engineering that updates the old Lightwave 5.0 with native RTG capabilities, making it fully compatible with AmigaOS4, MorphOS, and classic Amiga systems with RTG.
No more trick, screenpromoters etc... for make that lightwave works partially on AmigaOS4, now works native on RTG screens.No more stack overflow error, preview animation works...

Here promo video a list of features.

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* LightWaveRTG recoded by 70lk13n *
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After more than 30 years, an update to the Amiga's most iconic application is finally here! It's a huge update
for all amiga systems with RTG and Piccaso96 drivers (Classic Amiga with RTG graphic card, Vampire, Pistorm, MorphOs, AmigaOs4, DraCo...).

It's based on lastest Newtek release Lighwave5.00r and Modeler5.00f.

-Reverse engineering and new code by 70lk13n.
-Additional help with Lightwave things by Kikems/AmigaWave.
-New icons designed by SantiDarkG and adapted by S0yS0y.
-LightwaveRTG CGI Promo directed by Oscar de Palma and provide additional contents exclusive for LightwaveRTG in OP3Dlw folder.

A project made by Amiga fans, for Amiga fans, 100% free.

LightwaveRTG — What's New

• All NG Amiga compatibility issues are gone, no more tricks or workarounds to run Lightwave on NG or RTG systems!
• Native RTG screen support, with screenmode configuration app.
• Ready for lastest P96 drivers.
• Blazing-fast GUI and screen redraw routines.
• Say goodbye to stack overflow errors between Layout and Modeler.
• Brand-new internal RTG render output in full 24-bit color.
• Real-time surface preview render on RTG.
• Render preview/feedback now in stunning 24-bit color, live while you render.
• Anim preview now works in RTG too, background color included, in 24-bit.
• Save and load your Anim Previews.
• Image stamps in gorgeous 24-bit color.
• Background images and sequences in 24-bit color, for both Layout and Modeler.
• Datatypes support (got PPC datatypes? Use them!).
• Sleek updated interface with movable panels.
• Color wireframe selection mode (it's a bug since 30 years before now unlocked).
• Increase render speed up to 20%.
• Now you can open multiple instances of LightwaveRTG.
• Plus tons of small fixes and speed improvements under the hood!.

Huge thanks to our betatesting crew and everyone who helped make this happen: 70lk13n, Kikems, OP3Dlw, JaviSnake, S0yS0y, Jabirulo, SantiDarkG, Pedro (Balrog Soft), Kymon, George Sokianos Walkero and Muadib3D.

Special thanks to all AmigaWave and Amigatronics members and their subscribers — you rock!

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1- If you find bad colors in previews try to install lastest P96 drivers.
2- In AmigaOS4 if you use Locale prefs laguage with Euro support you lost native Lightwave font for interface, choose any language without Euro support when use Lightwave. Our friend Javirulo will share a fix to resolve this.
3- We recomend use 32bits, 24bits or 16bits screen modes but if you have a slow RTG card or limited Amiga system you can try with 8 bits screen but maybe not all features works right.

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* How to show appreciation for this enormous effort? *
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If you like this project, find it useful, and want to show your appreciation, it would be great if you could comment on the forums—let us know which new feature you liked best and what you thought of this massive update. If you show us your lightwave graphics that would be great, we love see how Amiga users use LightwaveRTG.
Alternatively, you can send a tip for beers to PayPal account lantolkien@gmail.com.

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70lk13n and kikems on September 2026.


https://mega.nz/file/O05UCZIZ#mO8LzPui ... U5cBUDew_DVFYBbaiVVnJp9Tk

Source of news with some screenshots https://amigatronics.com/2026/08/29/li ... lkien-y-kikems-amigawave/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sd1VX6as00

In few days I'll share the patch for original binaries.

@kikems

Congratulations !!!!very goooooood news 😊

@kikems

Truly amazing update thanks to all involved

@kikems

Wonderfull work! Looking forward to it.

AWESOME work!!!!

wooohuuuuu

Here a video small video showing at first time LightwaveRTG working on OS4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUC8zsL3c_I

Here another video where we talk in spanish but you can see how it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XI4gU_AlVM

in few days the release.

Hey kikems, check your PM.

Gracias.

The final version is very close.

Yesterday, we managed to unlock a bug that had been lying dormant or inactive for 30 years.
The code was already present in the Amiga version but wasn't working. It involved color assignment for different objects in the wireframe—a feature we had only seen on Mac and PC and assumed was never implemented on the Amiga—yet the code was there all along.

Also we adding new content made by my friend Op3dlw.

https://ibb.co/zhvCc38q
https://ibb.co/yBF50Fzt
https://ibb.co/4ngbhdhY
https://ibb.co/tpZ51cz8

@kikems

Amazing work, always cool to see something as old as this getting fixed.

pretty amazing stuff. how do you do it? decompile with ghidra or resource? compile newly modified version? then provide patch binary so you're not distributing the original?

@NinjaCyborg

More or less, yes. 7olk13n do the hard work, decompile with Ghidra, locate routines in asm, modify or add new code and recompile.

Wow. I always lamented that Commodore could not hold itself together long enough to see RTG more cemented and see NewTek stick with Amiga LW longer, for this sort of thing. I am very excited about this project.

I'm excited to see this in action!

You talk about AmigaOS4 and MorphOS support; is that API compatibility, or is there PPC code available?

Cheers,
Bill Borsari

AmiWest!

I'd update first post of this thread with download link.
In few days we build patch files for apply over original Newtek install cd and upload to OS4depot or similar Amiga places.

Enjoy Lightwave for Amiga like never before.