Hi folks,

During my development of Portico, I "noticed" that programming with SED is quite a pain in the behind. Especially if you have been working with Visual Studio before, you just miss out on all the fun programming can be.

In a quest to make a VS Plugin I slowly realized that a plugin would not offer all the functions that would make a nice 3DGS IDE.

So I set out to make my own IDE.



Here's a preliminary list of features, feel free to add ideas:

• Project Management
• Manipulation of functions, actions, panels, views(...) with the property grid
• A Panel editor
• A Shader/Material Editor
• A smallweight Image editor so you don't have to start up Photoshop for every small change.
• Level and Model viewer (using the C# Wrapper)
• Intellisense clone dubbed "AckSense", with all the comfort of the big brother, including SNIPPETS!
• Accurate Syntax Highlighting.
• Easy to use Plugin system, so you can add your own Language into the IDE (shaders for example, I suck at them and therefor can't even begin to write a language plugin)

Here some screens:

Looks soooooo great

Great work !

would be definetely usefull,saw this on your blog earlier, any release date?

it looks great and I like the idea behind it, kepp up the good work
I don't use Acknex since A6 but If I'll turn back I'll probably use it when it's out and if it is planned for other users too
spontaneously I don't have any Ideas to add, I think you already have a good collection of features..probably because u've done it while developing your game and had to face the problem how to develop faster your game or code
continue this way and good luck with both projects
bye

not yet, but I'll make a public beta available as soon as I get the Project manager working and the code parser that will "fill up" AckSense.

well in cc++ when u go to make windows project it give u yore first window still does. but something happened no more add in coding for another window when u add one on. that was to be a functionality in visuastudio every time u make a window all you would have to do is link and put it in your accellerator. theres linking,but no actuall link to the window so really it is visuallcc++ though i think it is visuall what. can't compute iter that or i'm illiteret. so really all the functionallity is triall and error u can even take a look at a first window you would make and add it on and name change,number ids,ect i cant even get one to work what am i missing.

what?

lol

I am actually thinking the same thing...I'm sorry(I'm not making jokes), I have no idea what you mean.

Fueled by public exposure I've been improving the script parser and added all engine functions(not variables yet, I have to categorize them manually by var's and strings)

No need to say, the AckSense box looks a lot fuller now and is heaps more helpful: