Open Lightwave-Projects - Page 2

evil_genius_180 · June 13th, 2008, 09:07 AM

I've often wondered if some of us would have the love we now do for CGI if we'd started off having to do it like they did in the '80s. It was all in DOS, command-line driven, and they had computers that are worse than mine for rendering. *shudders*

ulimann644 · June 13th, 2008, 12:25 PM

In the ´80s ( Winter 1987 ) I bought my first Computer - MS-DOS?? No go!!! - It was a Commodore Amiga 2000...

Real Multitasking - better than windows today - and Render-Prgs that was to handle like today. So - thank god - it wasn´t all in DOS at these days, if you was willing to pay a little more for a real good System...

I´ve had a lot of fun by creating renderpics with "Turbo-Silver" and "Reflections" these days and only two things were really a horror: The rendertimes ( 5 hours for a complex renderpic with a 25Mhz Turboboard !! ) and the resolutions ( 320x512 pixel with 4096 colours - or 640x512 pixels but only 16 colours )

Perhaps you think now: stoneage - but it was absolutly possible in this time to create good renderpics and 3D-animations with an Amiga...

Darrell Lawrence · June 13th, 2008, 04:58 PM

1978... TRS-80.

Programmed Black Jack into it

evil_genius_180 · June 13th, 2008, 09:24 PM

I bought my first computer in November of 1998, the day after Thanksgiving (got a good deal.) It's a Compaq Presario 2266. And I still have it.

It's not a bad PC, for one of the first low budget systems ever built.

Lee · June 14th, 2008, 02:50 AM

my first computer was an Apple 2e... even had a color screen for it... spent most of my time programming games in basic... god im such a geek...

ulimann644 · June 14th, 2008, 04:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Warrior

1978... TRS-80.

Programmed Black Jack into it

I guess you´ve started it with a gear crank... :laugh:

ulimann644 · June 14th, 2008, 12:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Warrior

Try for this planet.

Rylos is coming soon...

Okay - The planet is ready and I´ve uploaded it at SciFi-Others so you can use it for scenes with Starfighter-Meshes.

I´ve had not planed to finish it so fast but otherwise it was groovy to do it...

Hope you like it.

evil_genius_180 · June 14th, 2008, 08:24 PM

Looks pretty good. May we have a closer view?

ulimann644 · June 15th, 2008, 03:15 AM

Certainly. "Alex, prepare for landing..." :cylon:

evil_genius_180 · June 15th, 2008, 08:56 AM

Oooohhh.... pretty.

Thanks for the larger render.

ulimann644 · June 28th, 2008, 07:00 PM

Uuuhaa - Thank god, I´m back again...
Last saturday my boot-device C:\ crashed - physical damage, no chance to restore any data... stone - dead - forever...

Bad luck that the ISS-Scharnhorst was on it, so I´ve to start again the work on my starship

The good message is: no other projects or artwork were on it, like my slipstream tunnel. So before I start with the Starship again I´ve finished it and created a little scene with it. Hope you enjoy...

ulimann644 · June 30th, 2008, 02:57 PM

YEAH - I´ve found some older files, by reinstalling my boot-device on a CD from what i´ve thought I´ve lost it forever

One of them is Kyle Katarn´s RAVEN from JEDI KNIGHTS II that I´ve had converted from the game into MAX and LIGHTWAVE...

After fixing the troubles with my system and finishing some other projects I´ll continue the work on it :laugh:

Darrell Lawrence · June 30th, 2008, 03:12 PM

Awesome!

evil_genius_180 · June 30th, 2008, 09:21 PM

That's sweet.

I haven't played it in a long time but Jedi Knight II is a good game.