That's pretty impressive modeling. I'm thinking about, for all intents and purposes making "archaic" (No offense.) 3-D animation similar to what was shown in this video. BUT obtaining a version of the software that was available during the time, may require some searching or possibly accessing archived versions if available. And I am well aware of the limitations. Especially with potential compatibility issues with modern hardware. Is there any "professional advice" you can give me before I even attempt to replicate this old style of Computer Graphics?
Old DOS engineering tools are very non intuitive. The closest style in today's world would be blender in how it dosen't really follow an traditional UI, but like 10x worse. So be prepared for that. I had access to the paper manuals back then, and I have it still in my mind, so sadly you will have to learn by brute force. The other Issue you will find is the that these tools can be a pain to setup, as back in the 80s/90s, you bought these from a dealer, like a car. Your $2000 fee would include them sending a tech to install and configure proprietary DOS drivers, specific to each app (you will soon discover why we all ran, not walked, to windows!). The point is you will find many weird errors and the only people who know how to fix them are drooling in an old age home now! (i'm almost there too!). Like I have a 3rd cybertuck video I want to make showing of AutoFLIX, but I can't do it in DosBOX due to some weird FPU / Memory combo edge case, so I have to do it on a real 386, but of the 4 physical machines I have they all have at least one serious device error, from dead controllers to pissy VGA cards that randomly die, so that's fun! Good Luck! - P.S., ... or, you know, you can just get a dithering plugin for blender and set the output to 320x200! . But if you like pain and suffering, all the software is listed in the description and can be found on the web! --- P.S. No. 2! - FYI, the 256 color 3D animations I did here were done in AutoShade V2 back in like 1992, which I cannot find for the life of me. AutoShade V1.0 was the only one I could find online, and that only does EGA, so ... yea. There was a final version of AutoShade that had Renderman, but I had already moved onto to 3D Studios with my invincible 486 powehouse by then.
The AutoShade program runs in EGA mode with dithering, so maybe a dithering filter limited to only 16 colors? You might even be able to find a filter to apply to existing video post process. Music attributes are in the description.
It was a wondrous time. Though we have way cool tech like VR now, the "feel" of the paradigm shift is gone. In a way I'm spoiled, I have everything I want on my modern computer, even "real" AI. But the thrill of going to Best Buy and saving up to buy a new soundcard or VGA card is gone, the internet has killed the fun of logging onto your local BBS, and the mystery of advanced computing is gone when we can all rent time on AWS. Don't get me wrong, I love all this new tech, but sometime I like to turn off my phone, put my quest on the shelf, breakout one of my old 386's, pop in some VHS tapes, and go back to that glorious time called the 90s, when VGA was king and a 120 megabyte hard drive seemed un-fillable.
There’s a certain charm about the experimental phases. A lot of times I wish I could’ve been part of that birth of CGI- visit pixar when it was a small little office studio. The new generation is bringing back that spirit, with low poly art styles and indie projects. I hope I can be part of the next renaissance
@@vinylvannah back in the 90s were moving so fast thru tech we didn't have time to catch our breath. Now as we approach fully realistic raytraced VR worlds, we can relax, go back and really fill out the full and unrealized artistic potential of 8/16/32 bit tech from a more aesthetic angle, much like the vapourwave music types are feeling out the unexplored possibilities of 80s music tech, and to be honest, doing so with better results than the rushed and forced synth of the 80s. Good luck on your artistic adventures. I hope you will upload your results to your channel when you can.
This is great. I had no idea that FPU upgrade was so widely available, definitely getting one. Would it be possible to get that RAM stick details? I'd love to upgrade mine mine so it's possible to run some ancient 386BSD or something..
They are super cheap on ebay, like $20, just make sure you speed match the FPU to your machine. I'm partial to cyrix, but any brand will work. As far as ram I just use what came with this machine so cant help you there. To be honest this may not be the best retro laptop as the external VGA only works when the screen is physically detached (which makes me very nervous), but then the system is unstable. Probably needs a recap but I'm too lazy to do. I also have an L40 SX I'm trying to revive so ill show that someday maybe. I also have a 386 16 epson desktop i spent to much time on with a dead hd controller. Gonna try side loading a parallel zip drive via floppy drivers but that's for a later time. Someday I hope to get one of these 386 machines to send out a good VGA signal that I can directly capture. My brain still thinks these are new machines but I guess they are retro too now. Hell even my Pentiums are retro now. Guess i'm getting old. In my old mind apple II and c64s are retro, not these machines. But such a nightmare to bring them back to life. But dosbox is still not "runtime" accurate on things like i/o, so if I want to capture true to life video I gotta use the real thing.
Ooh man.. i remember the time i used to play on this server a lot back in 2016-2017, i go by the name “Mr-Hamzah” and my house was somewhat close to the spawn. i also built a small pirate ship somewhere in the ocean, can’t remember the coordinates but anyways. Dunno if you remember but. It’s a 3 story house entirely made out of jungle wood with a farm under the glass ceiling and it also has a light house with a swimming pool.. at 16:57 minute mark is where my house was originally located until it got replaced by this white concert since i haven’t hopped into the server for a long time but. was managed to get half of it back. i still have that house preserved in my private world right now and I’m planning to memorize the other builds i built on other servers if i can. So much good memories…
This video was done in dosbox, which is not 1:1 on software timing. I plan to go back and do some of this stuff on real hardware when I get the time. Some of my other vids show 386 & 486 machines for more accurate performance portrayals.
Question... Is there any downloadable Image File for AutoShade that I could use in either VirtualBox or DOSBox? I've tried looking online; but it seems like I can't find any. Does anybody have a link to a download for it or something? I have AutoCAD R11 for both MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows 3x in-case if you're wondering.
Ive had this machine since i got it at a hamfest in 2001. I still remember arguing with the seller cus he wanted $40 and im like who pays 40 for an old 486? He had a stack of like 20 of these. In hind sight i should have gone to the atm and bought them all.
@@rman6746 cool for you. I have some regretful missed purchases too. It's ok, live and learn, and buy that stuff the next time the opportunity arises. =)
This video doesn't do justice for this old mode 12h screen. While I tested it when I got the machine a few years back, this is the first time I really spent time in 640x480 res, and I got say, it just really brings up the emotions. Its so crisp, even better then the color VGAs I have. I think its cus its only "one pixel per pixel", vs 3 or more pixels “per pixel” on even old color LCD’s. I wonder if this display is actually putting out a "real" 16 shades of grey per pixel, instead of 4, it just looks so nice.
@@squaretrianglez I've been watching some youtubers on these old grey scale passive matrix lcd screens and apparently some could do a full 64 shades of grey which would line up with the 64 shades of gray that the 6 bit VGA pallet can show (color would still need to be truncated obviously). I have an old Toshiba 486 with a b/w lcd screen but I don't seem to remember it being this nice (and my 286 & 8088 zenith laptops are only 640x200). I wish I had a real 4k (or 8k? ) camera to film this stuff, maybe next year. Maybe ill have to do a side by side comparison. I also need to get an old "red" plasma display again. I had one years ago but I cant recall what happened to it.
god, this is such a trip down memory lane. my dad was an architect and pretty early adopter of AutoCAD, and i used to play around w his software: this version of AutoCAD, early versions of 3d studio...
animator wasn't a 3d software but a general anim. software that could load 3d rendered clips (flics) trust me, old-multimedia-man and extensive user of that one + 3dstudio (not 3dsmax yet back then) during those days
Being reminded of all the software that I used to screw around with as a teenager just makes me realize how successful I could have been if I just actually learned how to apply it to a profession.
Ah I see and I assume all the 3D purist, who work in 3D are on this, or even lesser software because holy fuck if you use any tool outside of their designated taste, and they find out, they are insufferable cunts, yet they refuse to model tri by tri oddly enough, a tool is a tool the end. Anyways glad to see stuff like this I want to know of the ye olden tech for old games, n64, or 3D modeling etc.
I remember in my teen years I made an animation in the FLIC format (*.fli) of my parents minivan driving on a road with green grass. I lost the animation, but I still remember animating each frame. Fairly certain I used animator, but I could be wrong.
