A new public beta version 8.012 is available.

This version fixes the two reported bugs of 8.010: The free version can now be installed without copying an extra file (hopefully) and model animation does not stop anymore after 30 seconds.

You can find a list of the new features here:

http://manual.3dgamestudio.net/newfeatures8.htm

Please install this version in a new folder or in your 8.010 folder; do not install it in your old A7 folder. Test everything carefully and if you find a bug, please report it to the bug forum. Please disregard the ominous error messages when you start GED the first time.

Users who already own a key file with "*.dta" extension can unlock the free version to Extra, Com, or Pro. Users who purchased or upgraded A7 since March 2010, but have not yet a *.dta key, can contact Support and will receive the new key file.

I can't run the A8 Engine Preview because it can't open %1.c

@JCL:
Any changes planned for lite-c?

For example removing the ugly brackets when initialising a multidimensional object at runtime?

it ends up like this:

(name[x])[y]

Greets
Rackscha

Animations play as expected, it correctly says "free version" when starting the engine, And no longer crashes with the old A6 maps .

A8 engine preview: In users\yourname\sendto you'll find a "Preview in A8 Engine.lnk". Right click, Properties, and remove the "%1" from the command line.

Ugly brackets: We don't know of any ugly brackets.

@JCL Yes, it works. I just have a plain black window, is it that?

With "ugly" i meaned the example i wrote above.

In C/c++ you dont have to add those brackets but in lite-c you have. Its just an obstacle

Hi JCL

I dont know if you read my "Bug"-report post in A8.01.1, I though I post it here again.
Maybe its a Bug!



i dont know if this is a bug or bad programming style of my own.

I worked on a RPG with A7 - free.
I startet my this script with A8 and it seems there is aproblem with ent_create.

i've written a ent_create - script in the "void main()" like this:


it works perfect with A7-free edition.
Every Model had the Polygon -flag and shadow.
if my player looks with c-trace at the Model a text apears.

Now script didnt working correctly with A8-free-edition!
Only one modell of them show the message!

It only works if I write something like this in the main script:



Is it a bug or a bad programming style of me?

regards
Basti

In both cases - "ugly brackets" and "missing message" - you can contact the support and send them the project, or upload it to the bug forum. It can be a bug in the engine, or it can be a bug in your script - but I can't see from your post why you need ugly brackets or get no message.

I have this error message when I try the samples program in my office PC



Everything polygon based did not shown up, panel and particles do shown up. Also tried it with -w3d command.
PC Spec:
Intel Pentium D 2.4GHz, 1Gb RAM, 64Mb Intel 82865G Onboard Graphic

I also tried at my home PC. It show the first frame before it crash to garbled screen without warning(it also crashed my OS so I have to reset it), tried a couple of time with other samples too.

PC Spec
Intel Pentium D 3.2 GHz, 1Gb RAM, 256Mb Ati Radeon 9600 AGP