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Re: Other game development tools ?
[Re: broozar]
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03/21/08 10:58
03/21/08 10:58
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Machinery_Frank
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The GameCore Alpha looks indeed impressive. The shaders are also very good. They use conditional statements to render only what is really needed. So it will render faster with 1 or 2 dynamic light but you can use up to 7 of them per model. I saw even scenes with 13 visible dynamic lights. This works if your scene is splitted into several models.
The feature-set is very good. There is AI, physics, all the modern rendering options available. You can tweak your scene-management with hand-made low-poly occlusion models.
And they try to do something that Conitec also does: They deliver lots of templates for several games (FPS, racing, chess, multiplayer and more). They said that they want to have a complete game template including everything you need for a game with GUI, loading, saving, cameras, moving and so on.
The reason why I still wait to buy a license is: I am afraid about documentation. They claim to have 700 script functions and the feature-set is great. But this needs tons of docu and examples. The existing old documenation is very limited and they did not reply to my email asking for progress on docu. The best AI will not help me if I dont know how to use it.
So I will wait until April. They claim to publish it then. I am sure with good documentation this will become the best prototyping and beginner tool for game-making.
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Re: Other game development tools ?
[Re: Machinery_Frank]
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03/21/08 11:29
03/21/08 11:29
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I hope that they make a demo of GameCore....and in my opinion the documentation is one of the most important things off any software. Is april a sure release date ?
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Re: Other game development tools ?
[Re: AlbertoT]
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03/29/08 12:18
03/29/08 12:18
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Machinery_Frank
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I heard they have a new scripting pdf documentation. It has about 100 pages. But for 700 script functions it means that every command is written on only 1/7 page. So I am sure they miss examples, explanations and more. It is just a simple mentioning of functions with a short sentence about their intention. This is by far not enough to understand an engine conception. Asking for every problem in a forum might be a new habit but it is not effective and leads to very long development times because of waiting, reading forums and such
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