If nothing changes it will be dead, though.

I would not start any bigger project anymore with it as long as there is no new information about the future plans of Conitec released.
Not a problem for me, as I don't start bigger projects anyway - destined to fail

I said that the lower priced versions worth the money, not the pro. I have only extra now, but commercial is under my max limit too. I would never give so much money for any engine (man, that's the price of a good guitar! ) because I'm not a professional user. Rather I would spend money on a new pc...

Dan, if you don't have to waste hours on the forum anymore, become yourself vibrant and powerful and make an awesome graphics demo. You have the skills, I know it - unleash them! That was meant absolutely serious, no kidding.

Sivan RealSerious3D is Dan Silverman?

RealSerious3D... haven't you noticed the "I was here long ago" stuff?

Ken Silverman would be cooler

HeelX, thanks for the kind words. I appreciate them. I am on to other things for the most part. Wrote a sci-fi/fantasy novel that is to be published this April or May (very excited about that), doing a lot more traditional art and digital fantasy art, etc. I want to get back into RT3D stuff, though, and GameStudio and I go back a long, long way. I was tinkering with it when it was ACK, then ACKNEX, when it was on a disk with a game programming book and when some company called OP Group had it.

I still read this book from time to time cause of the good old times oP Group, i remember the bad logo sprite in demo level on demo disk

@Dan:
hey welcome back Dan

@all:
As always we're running through changes.
The engine is hot and commercial edition has all the good features like RenderToTexture and nice shadows. If the ressource packer would be included I nether would look to other engines.

Like Rondinion I use Blender for Leveldesign.
1. Creating the whole world
2. Split it in separate regions
3. than paint each with black/red/yellow/white colormap
After that I add in WED invisible blocks for collision detection and set the terrainshaders.

Rest of logic comes with SED.

Yesterday I followed the link to Unity3D because the free Android thing. Did download some stuff and crawled through the their forum.

Unity pro is no option for me....to expenssive for my hobby. And the free version lacks of shadows and rendertotexture.

The Android support is sure a nice option.
BUT are all indie developers sentenced to create stuff for phones only and earning 15 cent pro game????

15 cent is better than nothing but this is not my personal intension in game creating.

In the unityforum they had the same discussions like here
The engine lacks on power and members switching to other engines. I did a quick look to Visual3d.net.

After that I looked here again

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gri

You're welcome!


Actually, it is OP Group again and not Conitec anymore.



If you hold the copyrights, then why don't you take a part of your novel (or the universe) and make it into a game. The trick is: Although it is sci-fi/fantasy, you could use traditional paintings etc. as a basis for the artstyle of the game. That would be something unique. Most sci-fi games have this clean metal/light/glass look with laser beams and holographic-stuff. I would like to see a real sci-fi game, Okami style, if you know what I mean Man, that would be awesome!