That's a well thought change as that stupid limit was the point where I immediately stopped considering it seriously...

broozar do you have made some experiences with it yet (I'm especially interested in the LUA scripting language's ease of use)?

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i haven't been too much in touch with the scripting system, as stonetrip provides the most essential frameworks (fps, car/driving, showcase), so for the most basicthings it's just drag'n'drop your models into the framework.
if you always worked with c-like languages, it's a change over, sure. if-then-end, ~=, no ";" are unusual at first. plus, it's completely object-oriented that i'm not used to yet.
of course, you're free to start from the very beginning and build your own framework. try it, the PLE version is free and offers everything except for publishing.

wow, thats pretty awfull that they offer this christmas deal now! really... i can only shout out the f-word very loud!

btw, i guess to be under the first 100 would not have been easy, plus its easy to tell that already 100 have bought it...

no, there are still 86 copies left. counter is on http://developer.stonetrip.com/index.php

makes it even worster to those who purchased it not long ago, right? anyway...

yeah, i paid €99 not long ago

ps: nice word "worster"... sounds like wurst

What payment options do they offer btw? I couldn't find any info on that...

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i purchased mine with paypal. i guess they offer credit card as well. i'm not sure about money orders. but paypal is definitely right.

I'm waiting for a demo !

Some people in GameDev or other forum said the engine was slow and good for small things only.

Let's wait for them to make some demos as good and smooth/fast as some of Unity engine.
For shader i don't see real editor or some normal-specular maps on some
animated characters for example !

Well let's wait some real PC demos on full screen not only small web interactives things !

demo: yes, there is currently no doom3-scale test level for shiva. nor is for acknex *cough*office.wmp*cough*.
performance: test the car dem (bloom, motion blur, normal mapping, physics, collision, all together) and judge yourself. but it's no 700-3000-fps-irrlicht.
shaders: there is no real shader editor, that means you cannot write your own fx files currently. but that's not necessary. shiva offers a material module where you can "assemble" your shader including variations of normal mapping, env mapping, true reflection and real refraction, the possibilites of combining em all seem endless. again, see the car demo for shaders.