MetaCreations Ray Dream Studio 5.5
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Ray Dream Studio 5.5, is a 3D program for desktop artists and animators, Web designers, and multimedia producers.
Ray Dream Studio is ideal for creating 3D graphics, or virtually any illustration using realistic perspective and shading.
Studio’s animation features let you create animations for video and multimedia. Ray Dream Studio can also be used for interactive multimedia. It has support for low-polygon modeling and popular formats like GIF, JPEG, VRML, etc.
- DL #1: Ray Dream Studio 5.5 "Install CD" - a hybrid .iso image in ".zip" archive. This contains the main installation software for Ray Dream Studio 5.5. - Originally sourced from here (Web Archive).
MD5 checksum & filename: 547f78481541b7753d3d581f4dfe5156 *RayDreamStudio-55.zip
- DL #2: Ray Dream Studio 5.5 "Content CD" - a hybrid .iso image in ".zip" archive. This is the companion "Plus Pack", containing additional software for Studio 5.5. - Originally sourced from here (Web Archive).
This CD also contains a fully working install of "Painter 3D", as a bonus.
MD5 checksum & filename: 127d0a1329d28c96a327f3ffb87ae019 *RayDreamStudio55_PlusPack.zip
- DL #3: A critical Mac OS 9 patch for Ray Dream Studio 5.5 - The only way to run this software under Mac OS 9.x is to apply this patch. This patch adds no other updates to Studio 5.5
MD5 checksum & filename: 18d8e1b4b7649ccfc28ce6970423ed7c *rds551update.sit
- DL #4: Patch to stop the "Painter3D extentions not found!" alert, when attempting to launch Painter3d from within RayDream Studio 5.5.
MD5 checksum & filename: a5a8dd8b12b9e5462627962a11144cae painter3dfix.sit
The Content CD "Plus Pack" has, as well as the Painter 3D bonus software, full PDF documentation, plus additional models for Studio 5.5, and includes demo versions of "Canoma" and "Bryce 4".
If extracting the above .zip files on a classic Mac OS system, for best results use "MacZip" to extract. These disks will mount OK onto a classic Mac desktop if you use the "Virtual CD/DVD Utility". Otherwise, "Toast" will mount (and/or burn) these CD image files OK.
See Also: Ray Dream Studio 4.x, Ray Dream Studio 5.0.x
CompatibilityArchitecture: PPC x86 (Windows)
- Macintosh Minimum System Requirements:
- Power Macintosh or compatible model running system 7.6 or later.
- A minimum of 32MB of available application RAM.
- A minimum of 65 MB of hard drive space.
- Color display (24 bit recommended).
- Windows Minimum System Requirements:
- 486, Pentium or Pentium Pro-based PC computer with minimum of 32 MB RAM.
- Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0.
- 65 MB free disk space.
- Color Display and Windows-compatible graphics card with minimum of 256 colors (16- or 24-bit accelerated graphics card recommended).
MACINTOSH NOTES:
- Ray Dream Studio 5.5 is not compatible with Mac OS 9.x until the Update Patch above (DL #3) is applied to it, after installing 5.5 from the CD.
- The bonus app "Painter 3D", located on the Plus Pack CD, is compatible with Mac OS 7.6.1 to 9.2.2.