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story ...
Well, I've been drawing spacecrafts
for a long time now. It started at school, when "History" was boring me.
By that time I was a fanatic Perry Rhodan Fan and filled a couple of school-books
with spacecrafts and aliens. These books were more interesting after that
;-). This continued during my apprenticeship, but slowed down a bit when
I started working.
These early
pictures were mostly done with just a pencil.
Very soon I found my interest in
computers (Apple II) and with the growing power of these machines my next
logical step was working with computer-graphics. I started with 2D - Drawing
Programs (e.g. Corel3) then worked with a very cheap 3D-Program by DataBecker
and ended up with dream3D, which was enclosed in the Corel6 Bundle.
Using dream3D I created about 160
images in 1995-96. A few you can see in my galleries. The program is easy
to use and you'll get nice results very soon. But there are some bugs:
system crashes very often; when rendering big scenes, the render-engine
goes crazy and paints big grey strokes all over the image; and a couple
more but not so serious bugs. Boolean operatins are missing and you can't
create any meshes. You only can use basic geometric forms and a kind of
extended "Lathe" - function. Also you can not create any animations.
In that case I lately decided to
buy real3D V3.0. But soon I realized, the more features you can have, the
harder it is to understand and finally use them. It's been a hard struggle
with the english manual, till I had any usefull results. At the moment
I guess, I'm just able to use about 10% of the programs possibilities.
So I guess there'll be some more
very short nights in sight ............. ;-)
In the meantime I've updated to
V3.5 which in my opinion is much better than V3.0.
Now, I've had my first experience
with animations, even without the german manual.
Have a look at the gallery ...
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Main
Computer:
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Gigabyte HX mainboard 512 K Cache
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Pentium 200 MHz Processor
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124 MB EDO-Ram
(close to lightspeed with opt. TAG-Ram)
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Matrox Millenium (220Mhz) 4MB
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AVM - Fritz-Card (ISDN)
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Soundblaster 16
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3 Com Network-Adaptor
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Scanner-Interface
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2x 4.3 GB Harddrive
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24x Teac CD-Rom
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3.5" Disk-Drive
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20 " Belinea Monitor
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Mustek MFS-6000SP Scanner
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Lenco Speakers
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Logitech Mouseman (with wheel)
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Second
Computer:
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HOT-555 VX mainboard 512 K Cache
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Pentium MMX 166 MHz Processor
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96 MB Ram
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ARC-Logic PCI-Graphics-Adaptor 2MB
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PCI Network-Adaptor
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2.1 + 4.3 GB Harddrive
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Syquest 270 MB
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CD-Rom-Burner HP7100E 2/2/6 CD-RW
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3.5" Disk-Drive
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17 " Smile Monitor
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Epson Stylus Color 600 Printer
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Logitech Mousman
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Soundblaster 64 (got me a MIDI-Keyboard for that one now :))
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Keyboard with Keyboard-Switch
(one for both computers)
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