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   CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH (loadhigh@bitbang.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 03:25:52 JST CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH

   Some landscape renders made with Bryce 3D come by on Mastodon this week and it reminded me of the first landscape renderer I used: VistaPro.

   It was was one of many #DOS programs on the "Virtual Reality Madness" compilation disc from 1993. VistaPro also came out on Amiga and Mac OS, and later Windows.

   VistaPro (v1.01) didn't give you much control but the results looked stunning then, if you allowed your computer to render the highest quality image for a few hours that is.

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     CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH (loadhigh@bitbang.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 03:25:53 JST CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH

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     A video showing the rendering process for the final image.

     One reason why it takes so long (relatively, this is on DOSBox at maximum speed) is because the program doesn't do any culling, so it spends a lot of time rendering terrain and trees that will be hidden by something in the foreground later.