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Looking for capable 3D animation/modeling software

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First post, by 0101000000110101

Posted on 2018-02-13, 16:12

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Hello again, I would like some recommendations for 3D animation/modeling software I should use.
This is for a Pentium 1 computer, currently I use Blender 2.40, which has a incredibly clunky interface and runs very slowly on my Pentium, about 3FPS. That and it lacks nice tools like mirroring and such. I could learn to live with it, but I at the very least need proper mirroring.

Do you guys have any recommendations of 3D modeling/animation software that doesn't require MMX or SSE instructions, and is far more capable and flexible than the ancient version of Blender I have to use? The newer versions of Blender would be great, but they require SSE, and if you go even newer, SSE2.

1995 Gateway 2000 P5-120
Intel Pentium P5 120Mhz
16MB EDO RAM
1MB Trident 3D capable GPU
250GB Western Digital IDE drive
OS(s): Windows 98/Windows 2000 SP1

Reply 1 of 3, by derSammler

Posted on 2018-02-13, 16:15

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Eons ago, I used trueSpace. I think version 2.4 if I remember right (what a coincidence), which was already very capable.

Reply 2 of 3, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2018-02-13, 19:25

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For a P1 machine with DOS, you can also use POVLAB.

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Reply 3 of 3, by leileilol

Posted on 2018-02-13, 19:57

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I don't think anything's better than Blender when it comes to free modeling progrems. Blender 2.4x will want a Geforce2 (or better) at least.

Though there's also Wings3d that used to be suggested a long time ago but that makes messy meshes.

Beware of suggestions of Milkshape 3D - that (like Bochs blindly suggested around here), gets ssuggested from a bullet point list of import/export features while not having any usable tools while also not fixing decades-long bugs. It's just outdated shareware hype. Might as well have Moraff make a modeling program

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