New guy with lots of questions

[ArchM]

Howdy everybody, my name is Michael and I am a 3D modelling student from Ohio.  I just discovered this whole Amiga business, and am looking to possibly get into it a little.  I will be making a post soon with some general questions, but now I am at work - and should probably go do some.  

[Oliver]

Hi Michael.  Welcome aboard.  

I think quite a few people have done 3D modelling with Amiga's here, and there's a lot of other Amiga expertese here too (not so much from me though).

Hope you find your answers here.

Oli

[mgerics]

Welcome! Lots of nice folks here who always help out. Thomas is very intelligent. No, I don't know him/work for him/owe him money/etc but his answers are always right on and not full of fluff. Me, I'm just a hack, but I do love my Amigas; I know just enough to screw things up.

[tonyvdb]

Hi Michael, Welcome to AO.

Have you done any 3D work using Lightwave? if so, The Amiga was one of the first computers to be used in the movie and television industry for 3D rendering. Lightwave was introduced to the world on the Amiga in the early 90s and has been used in TV shows like Babalon5, Startrek, Sliders and many more.


Always remember that "a dumb question is a question not asked"

[weirdami]

many more = also Seaquest

[Piru]

@tonyvdb

Babalon5

To be honest, only for the pilot was rendered on Amigas. Anything else used PCs and DEC Alpha workstations.

Anyway, since it was mentioned, Babylon 5 returns

w00t w00t!

[ArchM]

LOL, no, no Lightwave.  My college teaches 3DMax exclusively, so that is all I have messed with.  They don't get into MaxScript either, (at least for my degree), so I really have only a dabbling of VisualBasic for my programming experience.  I think programmers are all insane personally.  

Truthfully, I am interested in the Amiga strictly for it's games.  There seem to be sooooo many amazing games for the older Amiga's, a lot of 80's and early 90's Cyberpunk too - which is my favorite genre ever.  I NEED to get access to these games - they are haunting my dreams now!  LOL!

[Amiduffer]

Welcome.

Imagine3D user here!  :egad:

[mgerics]

@ArchM '...all programmers are insane...'

What?? I'm a programmer! And I just want to say,um...
yeah, you're right.

[GreggBz]

Hello,
Don't mean to hijack, but I'm looking for a 3d artist for my
game, Outerspace
which is a remake of a classic PC/Amiga/Atari Game.

See this thread:
Here

Also, the game's in VB.NET, and I'm pretty darn good at VB.NET so that might interest you.

[carls]

Truthfully, I am interested in the Amiga strictly for it's games.

In that case I'd recommend you to get an emulator package, say Amiga Forever (http://www.amigaforever.com/) which emulates basically anything from an A1000 or A500 up to an A4000. It will run fine on a modern PC and you avoid the hassle of getting an Amiga, finding space for it and findning floppies and transfer games onto them.

[Hyperspeed]

by carls:
In that case I'd recommend you to get an emulator package, say Amiga Forever (http://www.amigaforever.com/) which emulates basically anything from an A1000 or A500 up to an A4000. It will run fine on a modern PC and you avoid the hassle of getting an Amiga, finding space for it and findning floppies and transfer games onto them.

Blasphemy! To the gallows with you, traitor!

:-D

Get a REAL Amiga for full compatibility and get the WHDLoad shareware package to install the floppies to hard disk.

[carls]

@Hyperspeed

Hehe
I just saw another thread by ArchM and yeah, he definitely needs the real deal.

I myself own four Amigas, so no need to panic. Although nothing beats WinUAE/Amiga Forever for nostalgia in a cramped apartment.

[tonyvdb]

The drawback with Amiga forever (That I do have by the way) is that not all games/programs run properly and sometimes need alot of fiddling of the settings to make work.

Get and Amiga 4000 or 1200 and you will be a happy camper :-D

[magnetic]

Carls

WTF? Don't you understand how COOL it is to have  a REAL Amiga and not a cheap x86 box running emu??

magnetic