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Uhh this makes me feel old. These were like university age for me. I played with Dr. Genius painting software when I was child.
by timeon 2y ago
Uhh this makes me feel old. These were like university age for me. I played with Dr. Genius painting software when I was child.
- wood_spirit 2y agoGah this makes me feel old! Blender was uni (but was too bloated to run on my PCs back then) and sketch up is new!
- indy 2y agoBoy, this makes me feel old. When I was a kid the only way to learn 3d software was to pirate one of the commercial offerings like 3D Studio Max or SoftImage
- tetris11 2y agoGolly, when I were but a lad the only way to learn 3D software was to sit in front of easel for hours on end, learning depth perception by painting naked form after naked form.
- fragmede 2y agoYou had eyes? Back in my dat6, we hadn't differentiated into multi cellular organisms yet, and had to model 2D worlds as an amoeba because that's all the dimensions we had at the time. An Amoeba! You tell kids these days, they don't believe you. It is the most annoying thing.
- bananaboy 2y agoI used to use one called Milkshape3D, I even bought it. I vaguely remember there was some controversy about it after a certain version though, like it was doing something dodgy to your computer if it detected that it wasn't registered or something.
- shahar2k 2y agoMilkshape was such crap, i loved it haha. I learned modeling using it too, i think it had two tools extrude and merge vertices, so i had to learn some dumb topological tricks to do anything. Still by the time i moved to 3ds Max i did pretty well. My favorite early learning app was wings 3d, really fantastic modeling flow and creates clean messages by default
- bananaboy 2y agoYes haha I agree it was pretty crappy!
- hombre_fatal 2y agoI remember being obsessed with being able to 3D model as a preteen and devoured dozens of tutorials for Maya and 3dsmax but they were so complex that I never actually build anything myself until I used a much simpler program named MilkShape where you drag vertices into position manually. And now over 20 years later I’ve made more textured 3D models in picoCAD, the ultimate simple software, in a month than I did in a couple years of the above tools.
- jejeyyy77 2y agosounds like me, lol, before I realized modeling 3d things required artistic/visualization skills of which I had none.
- homarp 2y agoor suffer with Povray
- homarp 2y agosince we're talking about old 3D software, Cyber Studio CAD-3D on Atari ST was also interesting: https://doudoroff.com/atari/cad3d.html https://doudoroff.com/atari/cad3d.html
- lalalandland 2y agoMoray for POV-ray on MS DOS (1) Good times on a 386 in beginning of the 90th. (1) http://www.povray.org/news/moray-announcement.phphttp://www.povray.org/news/moray-announcement.php http://www.povray.org/news/moray-announcement.phphttp://www....
- qingcharles 2y agoPovray running overnight every night. Wake up for school, check the overnight render, set another one going :D
- animal531 2y agoAs a kid I once made the perfect Lego head render, with only a ruler to measure things. I'm still proud of it and mention it whenever POV comes up. I was going to model a lot of pieces and make a game or something, but I spent so much time on the head that I gave up after that.