Great !

wow, free, I will feel free to use it freely thanks in advance!

what sort of shaders ? what bitmaps (norm, spec) ?
How many dynamic loghts ? fixed directionnal light ?
Does it take account of WED sun and light ?

what sort of shaders ?
Mainly an Objectshader, Bloom, and some Vignette/Noise/etc. stuff.

what bitmaps (norm, spec) ?
Currently a Diffuse texture, a Normalmap and a Detailmap is used.
Later it will be possible to give specular intensity and gloss information in the normalmap, too.

How many dynamic lights ?
8, limited by DX9. With custom light management theoretically unlimited. (as much as Shader Model 3.0 supports)

fixed directionnal light ?
You mean the sun? -> yes.

Does it take account of WED sun and light ?
Yes, but levelblocks are not supported at the moment.

...added some bush models (small ones to grass, bigger ones with lod to osbtacle category), and replaced our test hero with a new one. if I have time for making some example levels, I will publish the update this week.

Some small editor progress:
Got the most features back in the new asset system. All stuff is now stored in zip files.

@MasterQ32: Cool, but remove the ".zip" from the project name please How does the structure of the "level1.owl" file look like?

@Sivan: You seem to have found some nice ways to speed up the level rendering process (LOD, PSSM, ...). It would be great if you write a tutorial about how to design large outdoor levels properly!!! (We could ask George if he offers a "tutorial contest"!)

I think it doesn't matter how .owl is saved
I will provide export functions to different formats (Direct Lite-C Load-Script, WMB, ...)
Also the zip filename is just some prototype. i need to clarify what will be an AssetContainer and a Project (Lite-C or C# Project)

I've ever wanted to make nice documentation and tutorials for my editor and how to use some external tools with 3dgs, like L3DT, Treemagik, TreeIT, Tree[d], Milkshape, Fragmotion, and some game modding tools, but it's very time consuming as I experienced when I made the Terragen skybox tutorial, and the current documentation.

fortunately, as all the settings are in a few panels in MapBuilder, if I make some short descriptions with a couple of useful hints, you can see in realtime the performance and quality changes very soon. and playing with the assets I provide for free, also can be useful, to see how texture size and model lod poly count affects these 2 things.

do you know any nice building models with lods for free what I could include in my package? maybe I have some in my old pc, but always forget to seacrh them when I'm at home...

Dynamic Aging well the start of it...The facial features morph faster then they should..... [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nto_1Uz8rY[/video]