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By: RetroCGI Staff Published: October 2021
In the autumn of 2021, while artists are wrestling with polygon counts in the millions and real-time ray tracing in Unreal Engine 5, a quiet renaissance is happening on vintage hardware forums and Internet Archive servers. The search term "Lightwave 3D 8.5 Download -2021-" is spiking.
