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Anonymous at Mon, 7 Oct 2024 16:36:38 UTC No. 997615
Is there a piece of 3d modeling software that's good for use on laptops that are too weak to run blender? I don't expect to do anything fancy like uv wrapping or sculpting, but being able to have the equivalent of the object/edit mode would be great to have on the road. I'd like to be able to run a light program to rough out stuff to refine later on at home. Is there something like that?
t. currently trying to use blender while waiting for a couple hours now and it crashes every other edit because this laptop is a decade old
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Oct 2024 22:01:58 UTC No. 997649
Wings 3D
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 02:53:04 UTC No. 997692
>>997649
This, use Wings 3D. I had the same problem as you so I ended up going with it since I have a decade old laptop too. Even though it's quite basic (no rigging), it's surprisingly powerful once you get the hang of it.
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 04:37:20 UTC No. 997702
>>997615
metasequoia
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 05:54:46 UTC No. 997704
>>997649
>>997692
I have heard of this one, I'll check it out. Thanks.
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 07:24:57 UTC No. 997709
>>997615
Try an old version of blender, I've made it work on a potatoe
Anim8or and metasequoia are good too
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 07:29:45 UTC No. 997710
>>997615
Your best bet is an old blender version anon, I still have a 20yo laptop with blender and works perfect.
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 15:31:14 UTC No. 997741
>>997615
Blender
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 15:47:45 UTC No. 997743
https://download.blender.org/releas
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:48:18 UTC No. 997773
>>997743
Any reason to use v2.76 instead of v2.79b? (the final version compatible with older Windows)
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 22:21:41 UTC No. 997779
>>997773
>Windows
oh shucks OP here forgot to mention that said laptop was running linux. I know it shouldn't affect much though, just felt like piping up.
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Oct 2024 00:52:01 UTC No. 997795
>>997773
Only if his card uses drivers for AMD GCN 1.0
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Oct 2024 03:23:11 UTC No. 997814
>>997615
>anything fancy like uv wrapping
Bruh.. We did UV un-wrapping in the very early 2000s on shitboxes. What current day device is so weak it can't do things like that? My ~12 year old phone would've done that in a stride as it's far more powerful than the computers I learnt CGI on in my teens.
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Oct 2024 16:44:32 UTC No. 997852
>>997615
>>997779
Older Blender can run on linux as well
Just pick a version that came out around the time when your laptop came out, and download one of the linux releases.
>https://download.blender.org/relea
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:22:00 UTC No. 998544
Maybe try SketchUp