I read through the tutorials I found for download here and around the web (official and unofficial). The problem is I build the map with the "build map" feature then I click "run map" and it pops up a gray box and then closes immediately as if it was supposed to do something. Can anyone point me to a forum thread or tutorial that explains everything on a lower level for me?

What I am really trying to achieve (in the short term long run :P if you will) is to successfully "Walk" through the 3d models I create without a character model or anything just to test out the feel (I'm going for the gold and making an MMO eventually =p)

So any barebones noob tutorials that start one directly from the beginning?

Thanks,

-V

Im going to bump this and hope we're just a small community and noone has the answers I'm looking for.

Thanks for your patience folks but if anyone can just confirm a few questions that would be great

-V

Hi, Visvalor -

I have never had that particular problem myself, but in general I recommend a "divide and conquer" strategy. Try creating a really basic level just to see if you can get that to work - start with a large cube, hollow it, and put in a position (Object>>Add Position). This creates a starting camera view. Build that with all default settings, and run it.

If that gives you the same problem you're probably looking at some kind of video card issue - do you have a modern, mainstream video card like an nVidia or ATI? Latest drivers? Any problems running commercial 3D games on your system?

Finally, if you own an edition of 3DGS (i.e. you're not using the free trial version), I believe the purchase price includes a couple of email support questions to Conitec - so you could go straight to the experts in that case.

I hope this helps...

--BC

I just remembered there's a company that makes 3DGS tutorials and they have a couple of free sample videos, including one for making a simple room (basically what I described above). Here is the link:
http://www.create3dgames.com/sample5.html

I would give this a whirl - it definitely should not immediately error out like you've been seeing.

--BC

Most appreciated I'll start with your first suggestion.

Also I have an ATI Radeon x1300 with the latest drivers and catalyst version.

I'll keep the post updated. Appreciate it <3

-V

/edit: misspelled appreciated

/edit: update; The window crashes I'm going to have to reinstall game studio maybe.


//Update

Reinstalled and everything works fine XDDD

Not sure what happened but thanks for the input /thx