When I saw this topic I first thought of a noob asking whether he should wait for some (hypothetical) A8 or buy A7 now. Some random thoughts:
- Compared to the UDK, Unity or all other engines that come into my mind, 3dgs toolset is like 1980 (like many posters already said)
- 3dgs power lies in the low learning curve (with tuts and all), but with an up-to-date toolset this could be strengthened
- Feature wise (graphics, scripting, ...) it's not "next-gen", but acceptable (though you could get some more power by using OGRE, Lua, Python, ...)
- Lua, Python, Angelscript, ... would take the lang devtime you spend into litec from you and at the same time offer more stuff to toy with for the bloody beginners (OO, threads, stackless py
)
- Also using OGRE (or appropriate libs) whould spare time to spend on rendering because then thousands of ppl work for you for free
- Maybe instead of providing templates, provide finished minigames the users can learn from and change
- Good step in the right direction to use PhysX and to switch to openal
Just my 2 cents. 3dgs is nice for beginners, buy has too many potholes for serious, professional users.
