20€

thats.. not cheap

it's... the result of my market research. if the price were much lower it will never compensate the time i have invested in it but of course everyone has to decide himself if it is worth it...

20 is super cheap!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, 20 Euros is a steal. I hope everyone looks into this; it works great.

Two things always bugged me with 3DGS and kept me looking elsewhere, performance and lack of mesh lightmapping.

Performance gets better with LOD, in comparison to other engines I've used, they do alot better on the performance side but lack 3DGS' "easy to script and put together a game" feature. Unless you want to fork out the $$$ for a really expensive engine which would beat all 3DGS' features...

A6's bsp has slow rendering, is hard to work with and very tedious to texture. Throwing together mesh levels and uv mapping them is so EASY. to be able to throw my level into giles and export its smooth lightmapping into 3DGS...Now I feel like I could make Twilight Princess in 3DGS...that's a nice feeling. *thinks of creating a TP level in 3DGS* *good feelings*

Ventilator has done something no one else has easily done, WED is supposedly going to have stable lightmapping, with WED lights affecting mesh surfaces. However unless this feature is implemented and robust with no bugs...I'm much more inclined to use a plugin like ventilators which is very stable, works with no strings attached.

So far, from what I understand, this is the only way to get lightmapped meshes into 3DGS (that isn't baked and we all know baking isn't great). This is the first of it's kinda, been desired and needed for years.

What Ventilator has done for the 3DGS community through this plugin, I am very grateful for. $20 is very cheap. I really believe this plugin deserves alot of PR, it completes 3DGS for me.

thanks for your comments!

two screenshots of a gile[s] example model running in a6:







(provided by zapan)

good work ventilator! ill add this to my blog soon and use some of your pictures if its okay. have you thought about adding a little tutorial or setting up a small site for this tool yet?

sure, you can use the pictures!

i think everything about how to use the plugin itself is covered in the examples.wdl already? do you mean a light map creation tutorial? i will think about that but for baking light maps i only used modo so far and i don't think there are many modo users here. maybe i will look how baking works in blender.

Those screenshots look fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vent you deserve one of those crazy football victory things where a cheering crowd lifts you up and people are drinking beer from trophies and every thing

=)