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  • XtoFxtof@shelter.moe
    Sep 25, 2026, 3:36 PM

    I wanted to do something with my Mac OS 9 laptop, beside listening some MP3s. So I decided to try Bryce 4.
    Bryce was a 3D "landscape generator" that was very popular around me during the 90s. Without priori knowledge you could generate impressive images.
    At the time, it was praised for it's intuitive GUI.
    But...
    I find it horrible!!! Nothing is clear. I didn't find the traditional "4 views". Most of the tools are limited to being displayed in 640x480 and occupy a small portion of my screen.

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    #retrocomputing #3D

    My first rendered landscape
    The main interface windows
    The terrain editor
    The sky editor
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  • XtoFxtof@shelter.moe
    Sep 25, 2026, 3:41 PM

    I know we can get some nice results out of it. But for the moment I am completely lost in the program.
    I will have to read a book to learn it. 😅

    And the rendering times are so long! My machine is a G3 500MHz, powerful when Bryce 4 was used, in 1999. I forgot how slow rendering could be ; iterating is painful.

    But I won't give up, I will try to produce something worthwhile 🙂 I will have to use old tricks: small previews with degraded image quality in order to make the process faster.

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