3D Studio 4.x

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3D Studio 4.x

3D Studio, not to be confused with the later "3d Studio Max" product, is a DOS-based tool from Autodesk for creating 3d models and animations.

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Bassquake

Seem to get a "dos mem corrupt, first_mcb=027e" when installing from disk 6 of the 4.1c updates. Stops at "Verifying: C:\3DS4\MAPS\BRNBRICB.CEL".

FreeDos says "PANIC: before 4a: MCB chain corrupted"

Is the img file corrupted?

Bassquake

Following up from my previous comment. It won't install properly in FreeDos. Use Dos 6.22 in the virtual machine. iF need mouse support, use CuteMouse software. Copy the files to a folder on C called Mouse. Add "C:\MOUSE\CTMOUSE.EXE" to the autoexec.bat file in the C drive and reboot. Will have mouse control in 3D Studio now if a bit laggy.

sofie

How I got v4.0 working at 1280x1024x256 on VMware Workstation 16:
Use DOS 6.22 and the 9.x Microsoft Mouse driver available on this site.
Grab 3ds4fix.exe ( https://archive.org/details/3ds4fix ), copy it to your 3ds4 root folder (default c:\3ds4) and run it.
Start the video driver config with "3ds vibcfg" and use the settings shown here: https://i.imgur.com/x1xcsv6.png

dungeonseeker

Works fine even on lower end GPUs (tested with a TSENG ET4000w32/p), after applying the below fix run 3ds vibcfg then save without changing anything, then edit c:\3ds4\3ds.set, start by changing both of the VIBRANT_MAIN_FONT= & VIBRANT_MATERIAL_FONT= lines to "VIBRANT14" then scroll the line 696 and comment out (;) the 4 RESx= lines and the following DEFAULT_NULLRES= line. Save and quit then run 3ds, 640x480x256 works great and its not laggy at all.

Garcia

hahaha this is what I used to make make my unfinished PlayStation (Net Yaroze) game in 2000/1,
Sony had a plugging for it to export their PSX 3D format and animation, it worked okay, I guess.

sol_xpert

hello
i installed dos6.22 and 3ds4.0 on virtual box
under 3ds4 when i try to create 3d shapes , its laggy
any suggestions why ?
16mb ram 4 cpu assigned to the vm

thanks