all not lost for Aladdin4D

[stefcep2]

Can you please give us a link to your Lightwave 3d tutorials as I've been meaning to get back into it for years now and I'm very rusty

There is also this guide:

http://www.bambi-amiga.co.uk/waveguide/index.html

[Djole]

There is also this guide:

http://www.bambi-amiga.co.uk/waveguide/index.html

Very nice guide/book, thank you.

[klx300r]

Very nice guide/book, thank you.

+1, top quality website and guide! JaxAnim deserves a donation :-)

[lionstorm]

thanks for the link.

[Djole]

Are there any more amiga 3d artists willing to share their work ? This almost made me install LW on amiga again but now i only have 030 and 4mb ram...

[yssing]

In the 90's I made alot using Imagine, if I still have it, I don't mind sharing.

[rednova]

Hi:
for the guy who asked for the zillion lightwave tutorials:
All the tutorials I have (are not written by me)are from lightwave
books and magazines, there is no link nor webpage with them -sorry-.
I just study these books and mags.
@djole:
I appreciate your tips. Maybe you would join is to bring new life
to aladdin 4d ? You could always limit your help to critique all of
our (a4d users) 3d work for amiga...
Cheers !!!

[Djole]

Sadly I lost all of my rendered 3d work on amiga due a broken hd. I might have the objects folder somewhere i will try to find the backup cds if they work.

I never liked cinema 4d much, LW just ruled all 3d apps on amiga. I might install some apps soon just for fun if they run with just 4mb fast.

[stefcep2]

I never did much in Lightwave-ridiculously expensive. Also it ran on interlaced screen.

And Imagine with its numerous editors so only a curiosity. And renders were lower quality than the other packages.  I actually have the PC version of it and its manual somewhere as well.

Cinema 4D was my favourite-Amiga style guide compliant, modelling and editing on one editor, very nice material editor, RTG, simple animation controls, special effects. But no cubic mapping! And it was fast.

The last Amiga version was 4,  but PC Format gave away Version 5 for the PC, which had an interface almost identical to Amiga version, but also proper cubic mapping, wireframe animation preview, better lighting, faster renders.  All the things I wished for in the Amiga version. I still play with this, even though i have version 10 ( getting too complex for a hobbyist)

If i had to say, I think Real 3D had the most sophisticated features.  Pity about the interface.

[Thorham]

getting too complex for a hobbyist

Nonsense :p Hobbyists on the peecee even use Blender, not a program that's known for being easy to use :p

[stefcep2]

Nonsense :p Hobbyists on the peecee even use Blender, not a program that's known for being easy to use :p

Well may be "casual user" was a better term.  

The only difference between some of those "hobbyists" and pro's is they don't get paid-I'm sure they spend a lot of time producing some of the work which I admit can be stunning.

[Djole]

I fired up LW 4 on amiga again. Couldn't find version 5. The plan was to make a simple quick scene in 10 minutes. But i forgot how slow things are on 030 Eventually i spent hours making this from scratch. Its nothing special and ugly but it could inspire others to make better stuff. Lw was a true amga diamond

[Leffmann]

Some of my old renderings:

[SysAdmin]

Aladdin 4D sold 18,000 units before DiscreetFX took it over so hopefully some of those ex-users come out of the woodwork. Amazing Computing ran tutorials on A4D for many issues in the late 1990s.

[Ral-Clan]

Are there any more amiga 3d artists willing to share their work ? This almost made me install LW on amiga again but now i only have 030 and 4mb ram...

Well, I've just recently learned how to do 3D modelling (using Aladdin4d as my learning software) and I've been doing some models for a small video project:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=64435

All the objects in these scenes are custom made. I don't use pre-made objects. Not that they're amazing, but I think they're decent.

[Djole]

Well, I've just recently learned how to do 3D modelling (using Aladdin4d as my learning software) and I've been doing some models for a small video project:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=64435

All the objects in these scenes are custom made. I don't use pre-made objects. Not that they're amazing, but I think they're decent.

I have seen that thread and i like what you have done. It looks good, nice work, i bet it took forever to model and render. Its very fun to make something from scratch and not just load some ready objects and slap a scene together. The more you practice the more objects you end up with. After some time you have your own object collection. Amiga 3d sw will never again be competitive with pc sw but its still fun to learn the basics of 3d modeling and animation.