Hello !! I'm a first time user of the Asoft fourm. It seems to be very
nice. I am seeking advice on a recent purchase of mine. It is a book
with CD-Rom called, 3D Studio Special Effects. I'm currently running
a 486DX @ 33MHz with a 211 MB hard drive, and 4 MB of RAM. My
question is this…Will I be able to use very much of the graphics
contained on the disk at my present status ? B.T.W. I do have a
CD-ROM player, but I haven't opened the disk yet !! :>
Welcome to Asoft. Yes, you'll probably get a lot of usage out of the
book/CD! It is full of useful ideas/maps/meshes. Do you own
3DStudio? Do you have a 24-bit graphics card? If yes, then go for it.
I'd suggest buying some more RAM, if you can afford it, but 4 meg
should be OK.
I'm assuming you have 3d Studio – the book isn't much use without it.
I wrote 3 of the chapters and I focused them on medium to advanced
level users. Meaning people with quite a bit of a working knowledge
of 3d Studio r3. Also, 2 of my 3 chapters require ownership of some
new Yost Group IPAS routines.