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Article #27Re: 3d programs
From: Drift Dennis
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <31DB5F46.165D@hooked.net>, visant@hooked.net wrote:
>Jon E. Schultz II wrote:
>>
>> Hey, I'd like some advice. I want to buy a 3D modeling program,
>> and I would like to know which programs are good. In looking through
>> the catalog I will purchase from, I see:
>>
>> 1.) Fractal Design Stuff
>> 2.) Quark Stuff
>> 3.) Ray Dream Designer 4
>> 4.) Alias Sketch! 2.0
>> 5.) Autodesk 3d Studio
>> 6.) 4 Division Animator's pack (A $3,000 value for only $275!
>> Wow wee!...)
>> I hear Autodesk is good, but who knows. Any suggestions on
>> brands and individual programs?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jon
Another program that gets little recognition, but is a very powerful
modeler, with an excellent renderer is Imagine by Impulse.
It started as an Amiga program (like Lightwave) and was ported over
to DOS a while back. There Windows 95/NT version is due out soon. Preorders
are very cheap (around $400) but the MSRP will be $1695, street price is
expected to be under $1000.00.
Besides being a powerful modeler, it is a procedural texture dream.
Comes with over 100 procedural textures, and has full animation capabilities.
Kinimatics, Inversec Kinimatics, metaballs, splines, organic and
poligon modeling, and a host of characters.
Anyway, check out their home page at http://www.coolfun.com
Drift...�
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