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Yep, I could not agree more with you.

I guess 'we' see the true potential of 3DGS as a whole, but very little truly good programmers (or should I say 'game makers' / developers) take 3DGS to that level.

Myself obviously included, although I really do not look up-on myself as a 3DGS pro at all. I can use it and make things that sort of resemble games hahah, but I rarely ever truly finish making my games (all excuses aside, like having no desktop PC at the moment, lol). That probably has most to do with determination and nothing with 3DGS. I'm well aware of that.

Anyways, I do think people with a more serious programming background or preference for specific languages like Java, C and so on will simply instantly opt for other engines.

I think in that sense 3DGS is somewhat of an oddball with it's own scripting language (which I think is great, don't get me wrong there). It is definitely more flexible than meets the eye, but I don't think that's one of the first things people will see.

Yeah, it's amazing how much can be done when taking a break of posting on these forums haha.

I'm not saying my games are totally incredible, but I totally agree with the idea that being on these forums too much will waste lots of time you could have spend on building games hehehe.

Well can't solely focus on building games without distraction. But yeah can get out of hand .For myself it goes in waves, sometimes i'm more active, sometimes I don't check the forum for weeks and be productive in one way or another .

i Think there should be a page like the wiki, that gathers all the problems and all the solutions, into one.
And make that a script library thing.
So that you can see examples of script resolutions, that can improve your productivity, insteead of reading text, and searching for the huge amount of posts, that sometimes, has nothing to do, and dont even have a solution...
Because most times, what happens is when a problem is solved, they just say SOLVED.
and never post the solution (some of you know what i mean...)

There should be a script library.. i have mine with tons of handy scripts.. but the truth is we still see posts like (how do a rotate camera in a pivot fashion to a object etc.. etc..) Useless.. and my post too.

I used gold library from rhuarc a lot in my past days, and I think I'm not the only one. I guess making such an application has potential then.

We could create a more-community managed(by volunteers) resource archive other than the AU.

I once decided to create a site for Models, particularly in mdl7 format, which are mostly converted from the models on the internet with the permission of the original artist. Models would have one of the 2 main properties "which are free for non-commercial use" and "unrestricted use". So when one decides to start a prototype, goes there picks models that are needed and create their prototype etc. Also there could be some base-models, which users build upon, like a base male character model that everyone use, then when someone adds new animations they share them with the other users, since everyone using same model, that model gets a lot of new animations and add-ons useful for everyone over time.
Internet is full of nice models with free-to-use licenses, most beginners have problems converting them.

Same site could be used for scripts too, but unfortunately i scrapped this project.

I even got the domain name for that project(mdl7.org) but there is only a dummy page currently.

I don't think a web page would be used alot. See the wiki is there too . Library integrated into SED which updates online would be better.

ever tried code templates in SED?
It's a real cool feature!

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Just drop your snippets (as wdl) in the "sed_templates" directory and select it from the "Code template" list.

maybe someone can make a plugin to download such snippets from the internet? This would make a great snippet source!

wdl only?