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Old 31st January 2004, 07:50 AM   #1
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andy, what was ac3d v1.0 like? just a thought i had(i came in about 3.6)

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Old 31st January 2004, 09:51 AM   #2
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AC3D 1.0 was a long time ago. AC3D will have been going 10 years next year! It was initially for Linux and SGI only but there was huge demand for a windows port so that followed a bit later.

There may be some old images, I'll see if I can find any...

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Old 31st January 2004, 10:12 AM   #3
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This shows AC3D 1.58:

http://www.tin.it/sbdi/50/graf50it.htm

The view windows used to be seperate but you can see that the overall interface is still very similar.

AC3D was initially developed on an Amiga (with an X style widget library), then it moved to an SGI and a 486 PC running Slackware Linux.

The earlier versions used X-window Motif (rather than TCL/TK) for the interface, I'm not sure if there any images of that - this was really just at the time the WWW was starting. OpenGL was quite new then too. The rendering was written in pure X and SGI GL.

The version history http://www.ac3d.org/ac3d/versionhistory.html is interesting reading for me, but it's not beautifully formatted.

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Old 7th February 2004, 03:27 PM   #4
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(Nice avatar image livewire!)

Here's a picture of a very early version of AC3D:

AC3D 1.47

This shows the seperate windows and the wireframe only views. This is from around 1996 - eight years ago!

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Old 7th February 2004, 06:55 PM   #5
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thanx andy, for the pics, its cool to look at them and see how ac3d has advanced.
very cool for someone like me who found ac3d 3.6 by searching for 3d moodeling software with google.
i bought 4.0 and love it, soo easy.

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Old 18th May 2011, 10:47 PM   #6
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I was a hard core Amiga user and never heard of AC3D. What was it call back then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC3D

It sort of reminds me of Imagine 3D... At least a modern day version.
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