[Scarvin]

Could someone explain me what the following words mean on several LightWave price lists

"USB", "Duo", "Duo Dongle"

tia

a usb is a "Uniform Serial Bus"

The universal serial bus (USB) is based on one port size and a matching connector. It is designed around the concept of a single host with multiple hubs able to provide uniform and simple addition and connection of various peripherals. The bus is designed to sense the addition or removal of a USB-compliant device and then automatically configure accordingly. The goal is to reduce the number of necessary cable connections and configuration steps. The USB is viewed as an inexpensive system for connecting low-data-rate devices. It is designed to accommodate transmission rates up to 12 Mb/sec. USB devices are designed so that several can be powered by a hub through the communication cable without additional power inputs

It is the little often oblong thing in the back of your pc..usually where your camera might go

and dongle is a device you need that allow certain softwares to run. It is a piece od hardware that plugs into your pc

hope this helps mate

[Scarvin]

Thanks Kevin

[fusion301]

The duo from what I'm looking at on my keyboard is the serial key that comes with lightwave..instead of the dongle its based on a usb type item..being on a mac I just stick it in my keyboard and it recognizes the proper license key...i can then swing over to my pc stick it in there and use lightwave on multiple computers (not at the same time however) but it works on both my pc and mac. If thats what your asking...anyway its basically a usb serial key

[philip]

it's being said that the USB dongle is just plain better than the parallel dongle. Also I'm not completely clear if you need the USB dongle in order to get DFX+ to work...

This LW8 and DFX+ deal (buy LW or the upgrade to 7.5 or 8 now and get DFX+ for free!!) which lasts until september 15th definitely is one not to miss.

I will contact my reseller tomorrow and update you on the USB dongle thing.

[Mark]

I think Philip that you are correct - you do need the USB dongle in order to get DFX+ to work (apparently Eyeon had to rewrite part of the DFX code to key it to Lightwave).

Early adopters who have the Eyeon HASP dongle of course don't have this problem.

[philip]

boy what a day... new mainboard arrived; now I have 1 P4 2.533 and 1 P4 3.06 yay! (had to "repair" win 2k though, argh)

Been to the pool too; allergic attack after swimming, yuck!!

My skin turned all red and started to seriously resemble the moon surface. A double dose of calcium finally brought me on track again, *phew*

ordered my update to LW8 today, not to miss on the LW plus DFX+ deal and of course because the Siggraph demonstrations were so cool.

I asked about the USB dongle too, but they couldn't tell me for sure. They said they *think* it works with the parallel dongle as well.

I ordered an USB dongle anyway, just to be sure go me

For all you german LW users: get it at www.cai-systeme.com they had some issues with shipping DFX+ in the past but that seems to be resolved; even NewTek europe didn't have enough copies to ship because a lot more people made use of the deal than they had thought... go NewTek