C4 Engine

This engine looks good, anyone used this engine?

I have a license of this engine, but it is not easy to use.

I have license and I have contact to users using this and other engines like Unity3d and asked them as well.

C4 is superior when it comes to lighting and rendering features. Unity3d as an example is more easy in terms of editors and workflow.
C4 offers a visual node-based scripting editor, level, material and model editor. They are all powerful and provide fantastic lighting (several types of lights and shadows and all are fast).
The scene management with portals allows to create big levels, much better for indoors than Unity3d or Gamestudio while providing modern visuals at the same time.
The panel/GUI system is told to be very easy and powerful. There are interactive panels in the demo and a panel editor.

But the community is smaller but they help if you have questions. You can even talk to the programmer (Eric).
If you want to add more functionality then you have to know C++ with good understanding of it's object orientation.

The announced new features of the next edition are amazing, including streaming for even bigger worlds without level-load, more shadow-options, more post-processing including HDR and so on.
In terms of technology this is the best indie engine out there.

did they solve the collision issues?

I seen the screenshots and I can say, that C4 developers were pros in lightening. But I don't like such engines for node script editors.
Anyway, I prefer using GameStudio and LiteC.

Yeh, the lighting effects are really impressive, but i'm sure with a little time and effort game studio could pull them off.

The screenshots are not impressive at all. But I saw a great project made with it. It is powerful and can look extremely pretty. They use some interesting solutions to create semi-realistic dynamic lighting (e.g. via cubic light maps). This approach is simply faster than real dynamic lighting.

The renderer is fast even with parallax lighting. The engine is optimized to work with those shaders so it is simply the fastest affordable out there. No chance to achieve the same with another tool.

I talked with experienced coders used to work with different engines. They agreed that you can prototype with tools like Unity3d or Gamestudio but if you want to create something really working with big levels, good scene-management and visuals then C4 is simply superior.

Especially shader geometry needs good clipping / culling / scene management. Otherwise your graphic card will suffer from the amount of polygons, textures and shader batches.

Hi All

Thanks for all the information, the only thing I don't like about this engine is the licensing.

What do you mean with licensing problems?

Licensing is perfect. You can do whatever you want to create, plus giving your team-members the tools.

I talked with Eric about it and did not find problems with license.

Hiya.

(The web ate my first post, so I'll sum up)...

C4 = Great!

Get it now. Even if you aren't a C++ programmer....get it. In the near future this engine is going to be a serious contender for the 'big boys', IMHO. Get in now, on the ground floor. For $200, you can't go wrong with this baby!