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.

After more than 30 years, an update to the Amiga's most iconic application is finally here!

LightwaveRTG CGI Promo directed by Oscar de Palma,
reverse engineering and new code by 70lk13n, additional help with Lightwave by Kikems / AmigaWave ,new icons by SantiDarkG

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 a brand-new screenmode configuration app.
• 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.
• Image stamps in gorgeous 24-bit color.
• Background images and sequences in 24-bit color, for both Layout and Modeler.
• Save and load your Anim Previews.
• Datatypes support (got PPC datatypes? Use them!).
• Sleek updated interface with movable panels.
• 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, Oscar3D, JaviSnake, S0yS0y, Jabirulo, SantiDarkG, Pedro (Balrog Soft), Kymon, George Sokianos, Muadib3D.

Special thanks to all AmigaWave members and their subscribers — you rock!
A project made by Amiga fans, for Amiga fans — 100% free.

Coming soon…

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.