After many months of work, a group of users from Spain has created LightwaveRTG. It is a reverse-engineered patch that updates the old LightWave 5.0 with native RTG capabilities, making it fully compatible—for the first time—with AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, and classic Amiga systems with RTG, as well as Vampire, PiStorm, Amiberry, and other emulated distributions.

The application is now fully functional , no more tricks or screenpromoters for use Lightwave on RTG systems. Now we present you the promo of project, in few days I'll post binaries.

After more than 30 years, an update to the Amiga's most iconic application is finally here!
LightwaveRTG reverse engineering and new code by 70lk13n, additional help with Lightwave by Kikems / AmigaWave, new icons by SantiDarkG and CGI Promo by Oscar de Palma.

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, Javirulo, SantiDarkG, Pedro (Balrog Soft), Kymon, George Sokianos, Muadib3D.

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

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

Some screenshots here https://amigatronics.com/2026/08/29/...ems-amigawave/




Lightwave Updated for v1.1:

-Layout red pointer fix.
-Now render preview use same layout screen resolution.
No more screen switch between render preview->layout->RTG out.
-Fix advance and previous frame step button for player in anim preview.
-Fix anim preview controller panel fail when move over layout area.
-Fix speed anim preview options for OS4.
-Fix Modeler loading Truetype1 fonts.
-Added Muadib3D content and some tutorials (@amigamuadib3d in youtube)

Lightwave 1.1

[ Editado por tolkien 12.09.2026 - 10:47 ]

great work! Thanks for your efforts!

Nice rebirth for MorphOS!

Thanks mates.
First page updated with version 1.0 to download.

Really cool. Seems to work fine with a quick try.

I have done a few fixes and features so 1.1 version soon.

Lightwave updated to 1.1.
See first post.