Hey i'm new the gamestudio, i've played with it for a while now and I've got the basics down pretty well. I was wondering though if my idea is possible to create with this program =).

I am wanting to make two different games. The first one will be my main project and the one i spend most of my time in. I want to develope something along the lines of Dungeon Keeper(hopefully a few people around here have had the pleasure of playing it) for my first project and for my second project something similiar to Majesty. Mainly I'm asking how and what things would i need to create a GUI for the player, and can the camera be set so that the player is a 3rd person and can move around/zoom freely?

Thanks in advance :_).

If it is of any help i have 2 years of C++ college level, if that can help me build the GUI? May be an easier route?


Also what are the better 3d character/model creators(if any)? I can make basic things(furniture and such), but I don't see exactly how people can make extremely detailed monsters, humanoids, etc just using med.

You can do either really well with GStudio but you need to understand the scripting/programming methods to get a rapid line of understanding about the suite.
Simply begin your projects and look for possible solutions in the AUM series (link above) from the online manual (most updated) and user examples.

You college level programming is excellent as I started with nothing and finally after 4 0r 5 years I am begining to understand scripting

ah awesome, I've been popping open the files and I can read most of everything i've seen so far. The only thing i'm a little new to are vectors. My professor in college told us there were other ways to do things without them(this may be different in C-lite scripting than in C++), so she never taught us those lol. I'll have to read up on them for sure.

Yeah I think college programming is alot more easier to grasp/learn than learning it solo. Growing up i always tried to learn from those "C++ for dummies" kind of books, but just couldn't comprehend a lot of things. Then after 1 semister it made so much since . I guess I just needed someone to teach me it.

I've got roughly 6 more java/c++ classes to take before i finish my degree ^^, so hopefully will learn some more things along the way :_).

Cool, you are very well armed then
Refer to 'The Starving Developers Thread' to get a list of modelling candidates otherwise theres always the highend/High price pro applications like Maya, Max etc if you have access to them then tweak in MED then use.

Personally, I find no probs with MED for modelling any poly base assett, just a little time consuming.

Ah thank for the link, that explains a lot. I don't recall exactly what we were using in its place in my classroom, but i remember it was very confusing .