> anyone remember RayDream?

Why yes I do! My boss bought one called "RayDream Studio" in '95 (?) and tried to learn for a few years.
I tried very much to figure it out and I could do basic object creation.
It had it's own very slow shader/render and I remember I could create shapes with Bezier curves.

Wow, brings back memories!

Made this in '99, has a light in it and shaders. Not bad for one of my first dink-ular 3D creations.

But in other respects, for me, it was cumbersome and tricky to use. And you had to buy plug-ins to make it do extra features like boolean.
Franky, I think it put me off of 3D design until I found SketchUP a decade later.