It is not just a matter of the number of developers

When I was writing this post there were 303 visitors on the 3dgs forum and 193 on Unity
Other engines can have 5 or 6 people max
Right or wrong some engines are more popular than others , thus the risk is not the same

In favour of NA is the fact that it is based on the popular Ogre

@frank yeah but i thought c4 was still only one

ot: Anyone ever find out any info on user made plugins? I'd look myself but some of unities site is a little hard to navigate (or at least get info for) I couldnt even find a indie/pro comparison list.

Hiya.

Unity difference between Indie and Pro: http://unity3d.com/unity/licenses#authoring

Basically, Indie is like buying a sports car without mirrors or windshields. It still goes really fast and looks ok from a distance, but as soon as you take it out on the road or get up close to it, you shake your head and think "What's the point?".

My vote is for C4.

aha, thank you paul, i was looking for a table or something

@Paul_L_Ming:
The problem : C4 need lot more programming, and even C++.

In fact Unity Indie can do it very well depending on your project type and size.

Imagine some Mario Galaxy style game : the art, and simple texture effects make all the difference.
Could be done in Unity Indie ,no need for full screen effects or shadows (simple rounded shadows would do it).
Any casual game can be done with Indie, with subttle effects you can do great things, and the casual game market is growing really big

The templates for collision,cameras are really good and you can use them by a click, to very quickly prototype (before tweaking them or doing your own camera).
Unity is also fast to use as 3DGS ,and more friendly (editor for all things all in one).

i will go for torque 3d,as they have been already on windows platform long time before unity does,i just don't wanna extra headache become first batch of windows 'tester' developer :D,and btw i will got(preorder) 400+$ discount on torque 3d since i already owned TGEA

Well in the end it's just the editors that recently have become Windows compatible - you could deploy Direct X games for quite some time (maybe even since Unity existed - dunno when this actually made it into the engine)...

Enjoy your meal
Toast

Yes, this is almost true. Most of the 2.5 work went into the editor. But there are some other features and bug fixes as well.
But did you see what they are working on currently? This is impressive internal stuff to optimize the engine:
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2009/04/10/unity-roadmap/#more-411



This is really true in the beginning. Since C4 is a very general engine you have to write some structures, classes and controllers for your nodes in the beginning. But then everything is OOP and modular so from a certain point you will have less code for game logic, no spaghetti and better to maintain source.

But I understand that it looks overwhelming in the beginning.

Hi folks,
We've also tested out unity and we are quite pleased with the results.

The workflow and the wysiwyg editor is just amazing and it fits exactly our needs for our interactive visualizations.

The following test-scene was ported from our 3dgs-project "Krönlein". We wanted to see it in a browser

Interactive Visualization in a browser

You have to install the unity webplayer.

cheers

Sinnlos & Zwecklos

Torque 3d seems to be interesting, but 1000$ is way too much for me as a hobby-coder. And the 200$-version is way too limited. I would never buy an engine, where its 'indy'-version is limited in its main-features.