Thursday 5th February 1998

[Ben Russell]

Just found an old backup disc - turns out it has probably the first thing I ever built with blender on it.

Date stamp: 5th Feb 1998. Blender v1.61 (payware!)

[MaidenFan]

You came a long way.

[Ben Russell]

oh yes.

I think I built that thing on a Pentium MMX @ 200mhz, probably 16 or 32mb of ram, Debian Linux/NT4 dual boot, Matrox Millenium video card (No hardware 3D acceleration what so ever in those days.)

I've been tinkering with 3D since I was about 14 - got into programming cause the machines back then were genuinely sloooooooooow.

Thought I'd post it for you all to have a good laugh..

[Simmo W]

Better than I could do now. Skinny pilots?

Stick a planemaker model in and you'll sell it by the hundreds 'over there'. You can even copy this gem of a statement I just saw:

"We have also had factory engineers provide feedback on the models functions and flight characteristics."

Read: The feedback was that it was shite but we went ahead and released anyway!

          And the "factory engineers" worked for Corgi/Hotwheels