What is Ray Dream Designer 3?

3D model and render software for Macintosh.

Serial number: RD-312-1-3417-64384

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After Ray Dream lowered the price of Designer 2.0 last year, the package became an instant price/performance leader in its class, even though it needed to be renovated. Designer 3.0 is a complete refurbishment of the program, still at a commendably low price, but early releases have some wrinkles that need to be ironed out.

Ray Dream Designer 3.0 implements some well-considered architectural changes. Designer 3.0’s consolidated modeling environment does away with the separate LightForge and SceneBuilder modules. Also, version 3.0 incorporates extensions, similar to plug-ins for graphics programs, that allow for adding new modeling tools and facilitate future expansion.

Ray Dream also improved Designer’s controls for creating, editing, and combining textures, and added the ability to brush textures onto the surface of three-dimensional objects. The program remains an excellent ray-trace renderer and can produce images with G-buffer channels for 3-D filtering and compositing.

Martinez, Carlos Domingo. (July 1994). Ray Dream Designer 3.0.3. Macworld. (pg. 71).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 6.0

Compatibility notes

Minimum Requirements

• 5 MB RAM
• System 6.0.7
• 8-bit color display
• 32-bit QuickDraw 1.2 (Built into System 7)

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II