Agreed, long dead and buried, we're just old family members who leaves messages for its epitaph.
I probably wouldn't have wrote this if not for Puppeteers post
And if you think about it. Its not too hard to create an Editor like that. It's just work.
And making such an Editor perfectly fitting for your is often essential too and normally you do not know enough about such a framework to easily modify the parts you want to change...
with Firo's reply of
I don't want to have to code an editor in order to be able to work with Acknex properly. Period.
While some find it fun to create editors for themselves or others to use, ask yourself why you're doing it. If one already existed to do the job, you wouldn't.
When you compare 3DGS to Unity, and look at the forums, shops how they integrate their contrubitions, resources, easy search features on forums, and that's before you even look at how much easier to is to create a game Unity. It's years ahead.
You may say but they have more people, of course they'll be better? Gamestudio was first released in 1994, 9 years before Unity was thought of, they chose to hire people to make it better, it's a company which fixes bugs, provides requested tools and it's not just a hobby project. Everything you ask for in the feature requests is already in Unity.
Unity doesn't 'invent' data-types, it doesn't require you to compile every script when you edit 1 character, it shows you which line it errors on, releases to Web, Mac, iOS.
While the Unity development license is free for iOS and Android (unless you make more than $100,000), just check it out, you'll lose no more than maybe a couple of weeks if you really hate it, but, it has languages you've probably already used, 1,000's of tutorials and a real-time debugger making it all the easier to use. Only thing it's missing is the sarcastic, unhelpful responses when requesting help from its developers.
The only reason I stuck with 3DGS for so long was for the determination to actually release something with it and wish I'd abandoned ship years ago. (As always, just my thoughts)
And to keep it on topic, just get the free stuff
here. Isn't that what this was for?
