^ Actually, I was saying that posting something like "use this engine cause it'll magically solve all problems the other engines have" is just plain fanboyism.

Personally I don't find A7 editor harder to work with. Unity has a great editor but needs a lot of changes (small and big, like showing what brush and brush size you are using for terrain painting) before it becomes a perfect tool for the job (actually, needs to crash less when working with high res textures).

There are a lot of people who find even Torque easy to work with, but I never take people seriously who go around declaring how the tools they use are the best and better than the other.

There are some teething problems in 2.5 which isn´t very surprising if you consider what a huge release this was and that the editor got completely rewritten.

I am sure most issues will be solved in 2.6 and then I don´t think I will have the need to work with other engines a lot anymore.

Tested Unity now for some days and have to say... I don't wanna go back to Gamestudio... It's just so much easier and faster to produce some nice results.

This is my Test-Project at the moment:
http://www.bysamb.de/priv/unity/rollingballweb1.html



Everything is done with minimum coding. It would take me ages to make something like that in Gamestudio...
I don't need nice graphics or something. Just a working collision-system, so I can make Games.. WORKING Games!

Heh, Gamestudio has "WORKING Games" you know.. a lot more..

Anyways, I couldn't test the trial for more than 2 days. My BIOS god fucked and I ended up with screwed up time settings.. ended up with nice TRIAL OVER after 2 days only.

What I wanted to do was to learn the coding (since I am not a programmer) and wanted to see if UnityScript is like LiteC or not (easy for beginner and non programmer). I asked about any alternative way to learn the scripting in their forum like free version of LiteC but no one bothered replying.

Moving on..

If you want something free then Lite-C, Irrlicht or Ogre will be good choices. In any other case there is not much difference, coding is coding, you need to know the capabilities, the commands, the behavior. You have to do it while working on a project and you will learn it, like Samb or Kiyaku are doing. There is probably no other way to do it fast and efficiently.

At Dexsoft we will buy a license of Unity as well, since many of our latest customers are using Unity. So we can check our models in Unity ourselves.
And the good deal is: 2 people are allowed to work with one license. So we can share the expenses.

OK, Unity is really awesome! Now i have a question.

Is UnityScript easy like Lite-C?

answer to that question would be that you try it yourself and see how it suits you

Machinery_Frank, I wasn't talking about free engine, I was talking about a way to learn UnityScript without purchasing it (like I cn do with LiteC). I was going to just go and learn JavaScript but many people in their forum did just that only to find Unity script completely different.

So yeah, ways to learn one of the easy programming language without purchasing (I am not going to spend 11,000 bucks on a software just to find out that the script it uses is way out of my league).

I've downloaded Unity and tested it. It's soooooo bad! But, there are 4 good things.

1) Export to Mac OSX.
2) Export to WebPlayer.
3) PhysX support.
4) Stencil decal shadows.

I wish Gamestudio contains these features.
In 3 words: I love Gamestudio!

EDIT: Oh and BTW, Conitec didn't lie about Gamestudio's stability.

You can learn C# and Boo but UnityScript only gets used in Unity. So it´s bad luck that your trial doesn´t work anymore. You could contact UT and explain your problem. Maybe they will send you a new trial key.

Learning UnityScript shouldn´t take much longer than a weekend. Learning the language is only one part though. You also have to get used to the Unity API.