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I Just Wanted to Post an Image Thread
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@Dakorillon (IMArts) Cool! This reminds me of the renders I used to make with VistaPro. It's funny it used to take hours to render back in the day, but now it renders almost in real-time in nowadays computers! It's an antique, but I still like what it can do. ^__^
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That looks great.
As someone that did an apprenticeship in telecommunications almost fifty years ago, just before the computers started to take a foothold in telecommunications, I have sort of grown up with it. Despite that I am still left in awe with what we can do to do with the computers we have, not only is the fact that much is in real time but also what is possible. The idea that video games have moved from two paddles either side of the screen and a square ball bouncing between to what is possible now is mind blowing. That said, your picture shows that a lot was still possible with what was available, providing you had the skills and the patience to wait.
Very nice! It has that heat glare effect! You had skillz even back then!
Thanks, but I made this render last night! ^_____^
Indeed, Vista Pro started in the Amiga, before PCs and Windows existed, and is the precursor of nowadays Terragen and E-on Vue. What's even cooler is that it was entirely procedural, and has parametric designer panels to create clouds, terrains, rivers, lakes and oceans. It used heuristics to place the proper kind of trees at specific altitudes, water bodies and snow in the mountains, and allows us to configure these to our personal liking. It also allows individual placement of trees, houses and roads with the mouse. It has a terrain editor, and supports USGS DEM geological survey maps to recreate existing places with minimum effort. These USGS maps are freely available from the internet.
These features stand strong even with nowadays terrain generators, except that Vista Pro is only 1Mb executable. Even some modern fractal terrain generators of nowadays still suffer from flickering when animated, but Vista Pro could make flicker-free terrain animations almost 40 years ago! LOL
Don't think I've heard of VistaPro before, but I do have Terragen, and have on occasion created terrains inTerragen, and successfully exported them for use in Bryce.
The odd thing is, when I searched for their site just now, what I only found was lighting. I didn't see anything about terrain generating software. Do they not do that anymore?
The odd thing is, when I searched for their site just now, what I only found was lighting. I didn't see anything about terrain generating software. Do they not do that anymore?
Vista Pro is from a distant time in the past (1980s), so it's understandable if people hasn't heard of it nowadays. It was originally released for the Amiga, which pre-dates personal computers. It later had versions released for Windows, and Macintosh. As far as I know, it was last heard of in 2005. Since then it has disappeared and was never seen again. The first version I bought was running on DOS, before Windows existed. Version 4 was the first to run on Windows, but also the last one to be released. I am surprised it works well in Windows 10 x64, since it's so old it can only handle 256 colors.
Oh, I knew where to get Terragen Dak, it was the site to purchase VistaPro that I couldn't find, because the only search results I was getting were for a site that offers lighting for 3D, not a terrain generator.
Now that I know that isn't available anymore, I'll stop looking.
Now that I know that isn't available anymore, I'll stop looking.
Sorry! I misunderstood! I'm sorry you can't get the other program anymore, I know how frustrating that can be.
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Well, I mostly finished this. A starship heavily inspired by, and a bit of an homage to, the Rebel Assault Frigate from SWRPG. I still need to finish grouping and parenting items and a few pieces are giving me issues (they want to rescale or move once parented which I need to overcome) then I can use this in the scenes I am planning for a Space battle.
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I should mention, I didn't model any of that, it's all kitbashed from Davorama's old FVCS, GVCS, and other Construction kits of his. Lots of legacy content.