How To Begin

This section describes how to proceed if you are a first time LightWave Client user. LightWave Client users typically fall into one of the categories shown below. The sections below describe how each category of user should proceed.

• Administrators - An administrator is anyone who is responsible for installing and managing the LightWave Client processes. Systems/Operations managers usually fall into this category.
• Developers - A developer is anyone responsible for building applications that use LightWave Client. Developers often need to manage LightWave Client on development and test systems so may also be considered Administrators.
• Others - Anyone who is neither an Administrator or Developer but has general interest in the product.

Administrators

• Read Introduction to LightWave Client.
• Install LightWave Client as described in Installing LightWave Client.
• Start LightWave Client as described in Starting and Stopping LightWave Client. 

Developers

• Read Introduction to LightWave Client.
• If also acting as an Administrator, install LIghtWave Client as described in Installing LightWave Client.
• If also acting as an Administrator, start LightWave Client as described in Starting and Stopping LightWave Client.
• Read Getting Started in the Developer Guide.

Others

• Read section Introduction to LightWave Client.