Hello everyone,

thanks for your comments!! keep them coming, it's what makes us going in these final stages.

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Ragdolls? Like REAL ragdolls? Or blocky polygon ragdolls

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I haven't given it the least thought right now but i'll consider pretty much everything before starting on it. I'm mostly concerned of making the hit animations to represent the actual point that someone has been damaged at and maybe a death animation based on physics as well. So far i strive to keep Intense Ai working with all A6 Gstudio versions so i'm not sure if i'll be using newton physics or blocks instead of bones and Gstudio physics to accomplish my tasks. I'm sure i'll think of something when the time comes..

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A question: Would be very hard to implement this into other engines like torque, Bv, etc?

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What foxhound said... But i will be using Intense Ai for my final year's dissertation project so i will most probably be converting Intense Ai to a dll and making it independant of the rendering engine so it can be used with torque, Irrlicht, Orge3d, etc just like newton physics works with multiple engines. But as for now, i just want to be concentrated on the Gstudio open source c-script version. I don't even want to think how long the dll version is going to take:/

Cheers All,
Aris

This wont work with 3d ai's right? Like aircraft/ hovercraft?

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Ok guys, The release of Intense AI and our official demo is only a week or two away.

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Whats the point of even stating this when in reality you have no clue when your gonna release it.

This is embarrassing, I remember you guys saying this was going to be released last Christmas.

I guess my point is this; dont bother saying your going to do something if you cant do it.

I understand that things take time, but saying you can do something, then providing excuses and delays and other BS is just beyond stupidity.

Too be quite honest, I dont believe anything you and your group have to say anymore, every time you open your mouth with some release date its another dissappointment.

I have a feeling you have never made a full software product and "estimated" the time of release. I did the same thing with Tower, I thought January 31st, came out to May 31st. That's life.

I also know from chatting with Larry that most of the delays have come from adding in new stuff to intense A.i. Which means it's more of a product now then it would have been back in December.

larry is doing a fantastic job and i can agree that the main reasons for the big delay are the massive ammount of new features he added and the level of quality he works towards.

he would rather rewrite and otimize a code twice then handing over a half baked version.

i have had the luck to see some versions run on my pc and i can only say he did an amazing job.
I have seen the ai grow from an "indy try to create a good ai" to what it is now: an up to date, userfriendly, documented hell of a tool.

and maybe waiting for something might be a hard task for some here (including me ) but its not comparable to the ammount of work, pain and sleepless nights he has put into this.

i can understand larry 100%. he wants to make this as perfect as he can so he can soon share one of the best add ons for gs in years to the community.

furthermore he has accepted and included user feedback as much as he can. all the additional documentations, the menues and templated versions, the different versions from basic to pro (so everyone can buy it even if he just needs the smallest part of it)... everything had to be made by him.

its as simple as it is: it is worth waiting for it!

We already know the freely available pathfinding part of it is virtually flawless, so I'm bettin the AI part will be too.

I dont know if you guys understand my point. I am not concerned about the quality of the software, it might be a good plug-in indeed, the point is they keep coming up with these statements about it being released soon, or in a few weeks, or at Christmas or whenever, and all of those statements have been consistently false. My whole point is this, stop telling us that its going to be released around a certain time period if you cannot release it at that time.

A good example is that RAFU said the software would be released in a week or two, here we are a month later, and once again the statement was false. I would rather they didnt say anything at all about releases rather than continue to blow hot air all around.

Its got nothing to do with not understanding what it is like to release software, I may have not produced anything as big as this or your tower game but I still know what it is like to do what I say IM gonna do. If I cant do something, I dont tell people that I can. This is bullshit.

@Larry: I'm looking forward to the release of this, however one thing i do have to say is, from experience, don't estimate the release time, i thought the game i am working on would be done in a couple of months, boy was i wrong. i understand nitro, and his view on it, just remember larry, lying to potential costumers is unprofessional, i suggest making a release date of "when it's done". Don't take this personally, but advice instead.

@Nitro: i understand your point, but there is no need to get mad at larry and his team, they are merely trying there best in releasing this great ai.