the primary giveaway that this is modern is the texture filtering on the checkerboard plane. OG renderers handled high-frequency detail really poorly, showing whatever color the sampler happened to hit. Modern renderers blend them to an average, grey in this case.
Thanks, I will keep that in mind for the next one.
Memories of me playing with this stuff on my pentium 133MHz and 16MB (yes, I upgraded it) of ram in 1999
Nice, I learned 3d stuff in bryce3d on a school computer.
Bryce3d, that’s the name I was trying to remember! Yeah, that was so fun! Spending hours just fiddling around without a clear goal, just trying stuff.
Ah yes, the EverQuest Plane of Sky
Oh man… I was just talking to a friend about POV Ray last night 🤓
Lol, I used blender to make this.
Oh I figured it was modern… your title says as much. But it would absolutely look at home on the cover of half a dozen books homie still keeps on his shelf 🤓
In fact I’m going to pass a link along because he was just asking me about learning blender.



