@Pyromania
It forced NewTek to make an unbundled version of LightWave 3D in a few months.
To counteract the LW piracy that it generated? Because, before then, a VT was required for LW to work at all. Oddly enough, though, LightRave was pirated itself. Then again, I don't know how much good that kind of software did anybody who was legitimate because for it to be useful (before the unbundling happened anyway) you'd have to pirate LW.
Was the unbundled version a version that didn't need a VT (to kill LightRave), or was it the same version, and so still required LightRave?