[HN Gopher] Crocotile3D low poly modelling tool
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Crocotile3D low poly modelling tool
Author : bananaboy
Score : 266 points
Date : 2024-07-10 02:05 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (crocotile3d.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (crocotile3d.com)
| two_handfuls wrote:
| This looks like a great way to quickly make simple 3D scenes!
| Love the idea!
| 55555 wrote:
| Any recommended games made like this? It looks awesome.
| joseferben wrote:
| looks like a great way for someone with 2d pixelart skills to get
| started with 3d!
| doxick wrote:
| I absolutely love this idea. What a great, easy to understand,
| way for building 3d scenes.
| owenpalmer wrote:
| Man, these types of programs really make me nostalgic and brings
| me back to when I was a child. I was obsessed with 3d software
| like blender and sketchup.
| timeon wrote:
| Uhh this makes me feel old. These were like university age for
| me. I played with Dr. Genius painting software when I was
| child.
| wood_spirit wrote:
| Gah this makes me feel old! Blender was uni (but was too
| bloated to run on my PCs back then) and sketch up is new!
| indy wrote:
| Boy, this makes me feel old. When I was a kid the only way
| to learn 3d software was to pirate one of the commercial
| offerings like 3D Studio Max or SoftImage
| tetris11 wrote:
| Golly, when I were but a lad the only way to learn 3D
| software was to sit in front of easel for hours on end,
| learning depth perception by painting naked form after
| naked form.
| fragmede wrote:
| You had _eyes_? Back in my dat6, we hadn 't
| differentiated into multi cellular organisms yet, and had
| to model 2D worlds as an amoeba because that's all the
| dimensions we had at the time. An Amoeba! You tell kids
| these days, they don't believe you. It is the most
| annoying thing.
| tetris11 wrote:
| At least you had a nucleus. Back in my Archea years we
| had to metabolise 2D chains of sulphur and ammonia to
| grasp some level of spatial composition.
| RALaBarge wrote:
| _laughs in hydrogen and nitrogen_
| bananaboy wrote:
| I used to use one called Milkshape3D, I even bought it. I
| vaguely remember there was some controversy about it
| after a certain version though, like it was doing
| something dodgy to your computer if it detected that it
| wasn't registered or something.
| shahar2k wrote:
| Milkshape was such crap, i loved it haha. I learned
| modeling using it too, i think it had two tools extrude
| and merge vertices, so i had to learn some dumb
| topological tricks to do anything. Still by the time i
| moved to 3ds Max i did pretty well.
|
| My favorite early learning app was wings 3d, really
| fantastic modeling flow and creates clean messages by
| default
| bananaboy wrote:
| Yes haha I agree it was pretty crappy!
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| I remember being obsessed with being able to 3D model as
| a preteen and devoured dozens of tutorials for Maya and
| 3dsmax but they were so complex that I never actually
| build anything myself until I used a much simpler program
| named MilkShape where you drag vertices into position
| manually. And now over 20 years later I've made more
| textured 3D models in picoCAD, the ultimate simple
| software, in a month than I did in a couple years of the
| above tools.
| jejeyyy77 wrote:
| sounds like me, lol, before I realized modeling 3d things
| required artistic/visualization skills of which I had
| none.
| homarp wrote:
| or suffer with Povray
| homarp wrote:
| since we're talking about old 3D software, Cyber Studio
| CAD-3D on Atari ST was also interesting:
| https://doudoroff.com/atari/cad3d.html
| lalalandland wrote:
| Moray for POV-ray on MS DOS (1) Good times on a 386 in
| beginning of the 90th.
|
| (1) http://www.povray.org/news/moray-
| announcement.phphttp://www....
| qingcharles wrote:
| Povray running overnight every night. Wake up for school,
| check the overnight render, set another one going :D
| john2x wrote:
| It was Wings3D for me. It's like Vim bindings for 3D modeling
| software. It's written in Erlang too, which is completely
| unexpected.
| thot_experiment wrote:
| Hell yeah, now can I get a shoutout for Moray 3.5?
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20180322042858/http://www.stmuc..
| ..
| gnarbarian wrote:
| wings3d is amazing. I loved repeatedly using the interesting
| vertex transformations to sculpt really crazy looking stuff.
| notadev2 wrote:
| Why are the dorks on this site downvoting you? Don't tell me
| b/c of "irrelevancy" - half of the comments are typically
| irrelevant.
| jejeyyy77 wrote:
| oh man. lightwave and 3ds max for me
| qingcharles wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Construction_Kit was my
| favorite.
| jdmoreira wrote:
| reminds me of quake world skins :)
| igleria wrote:
| Wow this might finally push me to do something, thanks!
| nmstoker wrote:
| Impressive! It isn't open source, right? (I had a brief browse
| around and didn't see any links to the source but may have missed
| it)
| tetris11 wrote:
| I also searched around, found nothing. It would be nice to see
| a license without having to purchase the binary first.
| a1o wrote:
| I don't know if it still exists but there was one that was
| built on top of blender that was easier to use.
|
| Crocotile3D is not as easy to use as it seems, the dude who
| makes it is an artist who is very specialized in using their
| own tools - they have their own pixel art tool too.
|
| The other tools that have somewhat similar spirit are the voxel
| ones and the ones that are using stacking sprite as main way to
| create things.
| akavel wrote:
| "Sprytile" is the open-source Blender addon inspired by
| Crocotile.
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| Seems last updated a few years ago from a quick googling; I
| never used either, so no idea how they compare or how
| Sprytile works with the newest Blender.
| waciki wrote:
| There is "ReSprytile", updated for 4.1 (not tested).
| Narishma wrote:
| It's not. It's a commercial product with a free demo version.
| tux1968 wrote:
| It's not open source, and you need a license (or purchase it
| through Steam) in order to export any of your creations.
| WhereIsTheTruth wrote:
| It reminds me of https://jeiel.itch.io/sprytile
| bananaboy wrote:
| There's also Blockbench which seems similar although I haven't
| used it https://www.blockbench.net/
| Exuma wrote:
| damn thats really freaking cool
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