Don’t say I didn’t tell you so. The absolute leader in graphical “programming” has released their once monumentally priced software to the masses for free.
This incredible interactive 3D authoring application will now make it possible for starving 3D artists, everywhere, to make games like no programmer ever could. And not only games, but all kinds of interactive 3D applications running on many different platforms.
Too late, Unifiers.
Psmith
Now I get it. You’ve had stock in this other company all along, and all of your time-wasting ranting has been an effort to convert Unity users to this software when it was ripe. Good luck in your capitalistic endeavor!
YAY!
Not interested really, tried some of the demos and they were choppy to say the least. And it’s only a beta (as it says on the site).
I don’t know if this will sound strange but I will stick with Unity because they charge a lot and what you get for the money is nothing short of amazing. Yes Unity have the free edition but you know when you buy Pro that it’s money well spent and money well invested for the future.
The price range of Unity Pro and it’s Optional Plugins and the mass of users lets you know that it’ll take a hell of a hell to freeze over before it dissapears or is beaten, imho. 
And you know that the money you spent is being put straight back in Developement of Unity. Look at how 3.0 is shaping up.
I’m sticking with Unity for the foreseable future as it’ll take quite a 3D Dev software to beat it.
virtools brother :lol:
i am starving 3d artist, but at some point i find all that node blabla connection all over the place and that back and forth between windows kind of “over kill”.
just personal taste but i rather prefer stick with code where i can get a better overview of what happens , yeah for an artist that sound maybe strange …that i prefer Visual studio than nodal system a la “kismet”
I won’t so long as you promise not to say I didn’t tell you so when you find out that it wasn’t software that was holding you back. Let’s hope you can avoid a humble pie diet now that you’ve run out of excuses.
I’m checking out their site and I see a lot of code samples (their second tutorial has quite a lot). If you can create a mind-blowing game with this engine using only the supplied building blocks, more power to you. But it looks to me like previously undefined behaviour of moderate complexity is still going to require some programming knowledge to implement. Apparently the language used is called VSL and is similar to C++. “No programmer” indeed.
Not really actually, since every function in the engine can be used as a “building block” so anything you can do in text base code can also be done visually…
They just give you both options so you can use what ever you feel more comfortable with.
Virtools flashback, still out of curiosity i clicked on their site and i somehow instantly read Using Javascript, so no, thanks! desperately running away
JavaScript is only used if you want to communicate between your browser and the web player…
And also there it’s a nightmare, pure madness.
Ah, so that’s what happened to trueSpace/truePlay. It looks like Microsoft absorbed some of that technology into 3DVIA Studio. I haven’t tried 3DVIA Studio, but having used some of the technology behind it before, I can say that I doubt it holds a flame next to Unity.
It looks overly complicated, cumbersome, and limited in comparison. The 2d node editor would probably be useful for non-programmers to start learning about 3d interaction. After all, that is how I started creating interactive 3d scenes with trueSpace. Whenever you dumb something down like that though, it also makes it less versatile.
It looks interesting, but Unity is still far ahead IMO.
I do not get visual programming. Code (especially C# ) seems so straightforward and beautiful as it is. Why defile it with some poorly optimized trash?
Congratulations on finding the 3D game making Zen you were searching for.
I’ll look forward to your next post being a demo/screenshots of this great game you have in the works.
Have fun.
So how “free” is 3Dvia Studio? In other words, can you build a commercial title with it? It looks like you can only create web content only, right? Where’s the catch?
Interesting tool, and I certainly liked working with it for years. it WAS ahead of the pack for a while, but had stagnated for years. It looks like they’re starting to make progress again finally.
I’ll buy back in when I can quote a price to a client for how much publishing will cost without having to call a Dassault sales person and go through the traditional bargaining phase.
(Why I can’t possibly sell it to you for THAT, my 6 children will STARVE!.. etc, etc.)
Or i’ll buy back in for more VR projects (hint hint unity.)
Is that how it works? I could never get them to give me a quote, but then I was trying with emails and letters. If they like the hard sell telesales approach, that would explain why I could never get an answer.
This has nothing to do with Microsoft or truespace at all this is a Dassault product… Maybe give it a go before trashing it?
As I understand it, Dassault has a close partnership with Microsoft. Also, Roman Ormandy started working in the Virtual Earth department when Microsoft acquired Caligari. When I saw that there were some features in 3DVIA that were strikingly similar to some of the trueSpace technology, I just made the connection and assumed some things had been shared. I don’t know for sure though, perhaps I am mistaken. I don’t know how close the partnership with Microsoft actually is.
In any case, it still looks quite similar to what I had used in the past and appears overly complicated and cumbersome IMO, though I have only gone through the videos and messed with it a little bit. I’ve not seen anything yet that suggests it’s comparable to Unity in ease of use, or power. Maybe I’m wrong though and it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread. I just do see it at the moment.
Yes Dassault and Micrsoft have a close relationship after all Dassault is the biggest 3D software developer in the world. The relationship between Virtual Earth and 3DVIA is the “3DVIA Shape” product which is a free modelling tool Dassault provide, the outputs of this tool can be feed into Microsoft Virtual earth as a way of populating it with 3D models.
I encourage you to keep playing its a very powerful tool.
We did an evaluation of Unity and Studio before deciding what path we take our company and we choose Studio as its performance was much faster then Unity 2.6 and some other reasons but I can’t really say (NDA)…
