For the updater:

I would suggest to build an even more useful tool out of that:

make a "General Starter App".

Such that it sevrves as main starting point for 3dgs games.
including:

-a splashscreen
-a start button (starting the game.exe)
-some options to choose (like resolution, effect-level)
-some short infotext about the game
-and of course the automatic update option.

This can cover up the bad looking start-window of acknex
and make the gamelauch look more professional
and integrated.

@BMM_SOFT: Did you think no one would notice? Do you think Conitec (the final deciders) will let this slip by? Do you think it is even fair?

Jibb

I am sure they know who is not playing by the rules,

For me it was one of the LightFrog, LBGUI, Particle Effect Builder or FXED, but i voted for LBGUI.

All of the entries look like alot of hard work put in to them(except for one that does not deserve that much votes, you know what i am talking about.). Grats to everyone who could create a tool for the contest.

While I like most entries, my favourites are LBGUI, Light Frog and FXED.
I would love to vote for all of them actually but I unhappily have to decide for one of them...

LBGUI: very boring to create, but very usefull stuff which is hopefully also easy to use, even though I didn´t really look into its integration.

Light Frog: I am not sure if it is well designed, but it basicly is, what the gamestudio template shaders are still missing: a pretty complete deferred shading pipeline. If it is easy to customize, it is basicly perfect and the shadow depth maps are great. Only problem of the shadows is the lightbleeding of the VSM...

FXED: a very complete shader editor. Only thing I really miss, is a more fixed layout with tabs. Other things which would make it perfect (maybe something of it is already possible?), would be the possibility to extend the editors keywords and the export format, by for example just adding some textfiles to some folder or something like that and support for more than one technique. Another problem of the editor, which actually makes it unhappily kinda useless, is that it doesn´t really allow "follow up effects", as you most of the time don´t just have one shader, but a several shaders and a lot of other code around them, which then finally results in the wished effect.
Also, with a pure textfile I have the feeling to have a better overview above everything.
What I basicly just want for writing shaders, is a good texteditor with hightlighting and automatic keyword proposals.

Hm, while writing this I finally decided for light frog now. In my opinion light frog and LBGUI deserve to win this .

lol same bad english like in the sucking progy itself, how comes?

Btw 2 possible votes for future contests would be cool

Hey,

I don't have an idea about c-script or this competition.

But the "Particle Generator" dude is spamming other forums begging people to vote for him.
And he's using lame tricks claiming that people here are racists and want to put him out, which might work against non English speakers.

being a faithful programmer who believes in hard work and justice, I thought I should report this to you guys.

Cheers.

lol, any links to these forums?

yup
here's a poorly google translated link for the post, but it's pretty understandable.

and you can tell how he uses the "West vs Arabs" propaganda to get support!

Link

edit:
two more links:
1) where he got most of his supporters
2) another forum

he's so desperate to win!

this was an act of trollism but for a good cause

wtf?

While I can't comment on the quality of the entries right now, I can assure you all that the jury will choose the best entries - that's why it has a 51% voting power.