Is anyone familiar with the Amiga emulator E-UAE for osx? if not then I highly recommend checking it out. When I was in high school I wanted an Amiga of my own, but never got one.
I had three of them! :-)
Martin Touhey wrote:
I'm sure that many of you have owned an Amiga and I was wondering if anybody has any experience with the 3d rendering programs such as Imagine or Lightwave. I've tried using these programs and they're not quite self explanatory. I've checked google for manuals, but Amiga stuff is kinda hard to find. I'm not looking to do anything stellar, just do some old-school raytracing. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.
Not only was I an Amiga user, I was also a user of "Imagine" on the Amiga. Actually, "user" is an understatement; I was an addict! I uploaded a picture I did in Imagine to Aminet, and got a lot of fan mail in response.
It looks quaint by today's standards, but here's the pic, found on Aminet as RO_Starliner.lha, uploaded in 1997:
Arcturian Starliner
Dang, that looks like crap now, but I was proud of it then. It looked much better on an Amiga monitor than it does on a PC monitor for some reason. But this image compares very favorably to many (most?) other raytraced pics available on Aminet.
As for Imagine, I'm curious as to why you want to go that route. Imagine, even with the manuals, is a bear to learn. There's a freeware 3D program available on all three major OS platforms (Windows, OSX, Linux) called Blender, and it is FAR more powerful and easier to learn. It'd take you a month, minimum, to learn "Imagine" on a rudimentary level, and you can do all the same basic stuff (and MUCH MORE) with Blender, plus Blender has all the docs you need online.
Even though Blender is a freeware program, it is a professional-level application. Learning Blender may even pay off dividends down the road pertaining to your video production business!
Is anyone familiar with the Amiga emulator E-UAE for osx? if not then I highly recommend checking it out. When I was in high school I wanted an Amiga of my own, but never got one.
I had three of them! :-)
I'm sure that many of you have owned an Amiga and I was wondering if anybody has any experience with the 3d rendering programs such as Imagine or Lightwave. I've tried using these programs and they're not quite self explanatory. I've checked google for manuals, but Amiga stuff is kinda hard to find. I'm not looking to do anything stellar, just do some old-school raytracing. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.
Not only was I an Amiga user, I was also a user of "Imagine" on the Amiga. Actually, "user" is an understatement; I was an addict! I uploaded a picture I did in Imagine to Aminet, and got a lot of fan mail in response.
It looks quaint by today's standards, but here's the pic, found on Aminet as RO_Starliner.lha, uploaded in 1997:
Dang, that looks like crap now, but I was proud of it then. It looked much better on an Amiga monitor than it does on a PC monitor for some reason. But this image compares very favorably to many (most?) other raytraced pics available on Aminet.
As for Imagine, I'm curious as to why you want to go that route. Imagine, even with the manuals, is a bear to learn. There's a freeware 3D program available on all three major OS platforms (Windows, OSX, Linux) called Blender, and it is FAR more powerful and easier to learn. It'd take you a month, minimum, to learn "Imagine" on a rudimentary level, and you can do all the same basic stuff (and MUCH MORE) with Blender, plus Blender has all the docs you need online.
Even though Blender is a freeware program, it is a professional-level application. Learning Blender may even pay off dividends down the road pertaining to your video production business!
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