Hi JCL and everyone

What will be in A7 and when will it be out?

I take it will be the following:

1) Interactive Shader Editor
2) New Rendering Kernel
3) Lite-C Compiler
4) MED / Model Improvements

What else?

simple response i have some time to spend in theses days

Actual 3DGS features are not enought ? , or do you need some sepcial
feature , or some workflow (shader editor), more power ?

If you are in a game , just playing or prototyping , A6 is sufficient,
even some cool pro games can be made with it like some in showcase 2.

If you have a real serious team or if you are making a serious game,
if you have art , all primary ideas of your game than
if you need other things , power :
just consider another 3D package : open source or not !

I don't get it TheExpert, you always seem to downgrade the 3dgs. Sure it's usually a beginners tool, but in the right hands it can produce some great looking games. And yes torque and BV maybe better, but you can still produce some serious games with it

Hi

Is BV better does it run faster then 3DGS?

I'm talking about with 200,000 polygons per level, can BV do this?

3D GameStudio is a great engine, it’s just that C-Script is... obsolete. That’s why there is Lite-C on the way

Why did I buy 3DGS A6 when A7 is nearly here? I am so stupid

bv is not better but different..

but maxF, thou shall not ask when a7 will come!

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but maxF, thou shall not ask when a7 will come!

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WHY?


Plus when will A6/7 have:

Lighting
Specular
* Unlimited Lights per scene (i know about this one)
* Light types – Spotlights, Point lights, Directional, Point, Spot, Linear, Area
* HDRi (High Dynamic Range)
Bloom, glow, adaptive exposure controllable via script

Shading

* Configurable lights per object
* Stencil shadows
* Soft shadow light mapping
* GPU shadow volume extrusion

the thing about that question is that your supposed to program hdr and bloom and all that on your own, your not looking for an engine it sounds like your looking for a point and click game maker, unlimited lights will be coming soon, dont worry about that, its already been stated many many times, we already have stencil shadows, i dont understand the configurable lights per object, like how it is affected? cuz we already have that, about the only thing the engine cant do yet that your asking for is HDR cuz you dont have accesss to the depth buffer.

I heard A7 would have unlimited light per scene, when is it coming out?

Older users should know by now that we never answer the A7 release date question.

We'll announce A7's release date the moment we are ready to do so.