New Scenery Animator 4 RTG release.

After LightwaveRTG we continue to adapt and improve older applications that work—or previously didn't work well—on our beloved OS4. Now it is the turn of the much-loved Scenery Animator 4.

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SCENERY ANIMATOR 4.03 RTG 2026

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A patch for Scenery Animator 4.03 (Natural Graphics, 1993) that brings the
program to RTG screens, adds modern image and video output formats, 3D object
export, terrain import from heightmaps and standard DEM files, atmospheric
haze, antialiasing, and a number of everyday improvements.

You can send a tip for beers to PayPal account lantolkien@gmail.com.

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REQUIREMENTS
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- An Amiga with a graphics card and Picasso96 or CyberGraphX, AmigaOS 3.x,
AmigaOS 4 on PowerPC, or MorphOS.
- 68020 or better with a 68881/882 FPU, same as the original. On PowerPC
the system's built-in 68k emulation takes care of this.
- Without Picasso96, graphics.library V40 and cybergraphics.library are
used instead (see NOTES).

Tested on AmigaOS 4.1 on an X5000, on AmigaXE under QEMU, on AmigaOS 3.2 and
3.9 with an RTG board (also under emulation), and on MorphOS on G5, X5k and
MacMini.

Download Link.

https://mega.nz/file/35gxnYSK#HKYDCQXy ... 5dxazpe83tMcG9ikIrllIjD90

This is more good news to follow all the other good news we've been getting lately. LightwaveRTG and Scenery Animator RTG are going to get opened with some frequency on my computers.

It'd be awesome to see something happen with VistaPro too, in time.

Kikems and Tolkien, thank you so much.

@kikems

AWESOME!!!! Great work tolkien et al!!!!

Thanks

Finish, I update first post with download link and some info.
We left as mega download link few days if all works good we´ll publish as patch on Aminet/MosStorage/OS4Depot.

Enjoy.

@kikems

thank you for this !

I have a quick question: would it be possible to do the same thing with Tornado3D? It seems to me that it’s one of the last major 3D programs developed for the Amiga, so the 3D looks better, too.

@sinisrus

We work on Tornado since 1 year, now is working in NG like MOS but we found a problem with Petunia on OS4 that we need fix.
We think is an fpu precision problem.

I'd reupload .lha on first post because have an error.

@kikems

Ohhhhh !!!!!! Tornado3D is in the works !!!

@sinisrus

Yes, and your Pixy will be big update in 2027.

@mbrantley

Have you tried World Construction Set? I haven't yet checked if it runs on OS4 myself. What from what I recall it was more advanced than VistaPro as well as being more system friendly. The source code is also available so a native build isn't beyond the realms of possibility.

Download

https://aminet.net/package/gfx/3d/wcs

Manual

https://aminet.net/package/docs/misc/wcs_manual_v1.1

https://aminet.net/package/gfx/3d/wcs_manual_de_v1.2

Source code

https://github.com/AlphaPixel/3DNature

@Rob

Oddly, considering my interest in these types of programs, I never did give WCS an honest go. Back in the '90s I "borrowed" a copy so didn't have any documentation so didn't know what I was doing. Nonetheless, it seemed to be very crashy and unstable on my system back then. Since I got back into Amigas I have not (yet) revisisted that software.

I have been playing with Scenery Animator RTG a bit this afternoon, and it is a lot of fun. I've so far been using it on my X5000 but I will also test it on my X1000 and my A500 with Vampire. On the X5000, I really appreciate that the interface shows correctly proportioned on a 640x480 screen. I was previously able to get the original Scenery Animator with a 200 line interface to only use less than half of a 480 line screen when I messed with it on my X1000. Since we cannot do true 320x200 and 640x200 screens anymore on these OS4 machines, this is nice that you guys thought of this and corrected for it. It looks great!

I have a suggestion. I see you have removed the Amiga chip set rendering modes as well as the DCTV ones. I understand most RTG users will be just fine with this. My Vampire machine has RTG of course, but it also has OCS/ESC chips *and* and I have and still use a DCTV box that feeds its lovely analog signal to one of my Ikegami broadcast monitors. (I work at a TV station so have brought all kinds of "trash" old gear home over the years!) So, I would love to see those old render modes put back into the program. Now, I realize I could just use the original SA on my A500 for those modes, but then I couldn't use the interface on my RTG monitor. Just a suggestion!

I hope you guys will do something with VistaPro, even though I have it pretty much close to perfectly working under OS4 using mode promotion and some trickery. But you folks have shown you're willing and capable to add new features too!

What else are you guys going to come out with? Would Imagine RTG be a thing? Deluxe Paint RTG? Hah. It'd be nice if ADPro would work right again. Whatever you do, I am down for it! This stuff is so much fun.

@kikems

I can't wait to see the Pixy update!! 😊