anyone tried dxstudio 3d editor/realtime 3d engine

www.dxstudio.com

I've downloaded it and tested, it's really nice and easy to use, only windows based ofcourse and DirectX 9. There is no need to do any c++ programing. All programing is done scripting in javascript :) Mixing 2d and 3d is easy, making interface/hud for your game is 10 minutes jobs if you got all the art ready. Real fun to play with this thing.

There is free version with tutorials and lots samples to check to download that is a bit limited since it's free, but it can give you chance to evaluate it.

RedOcotober in case you reading this you should try this one if you haven't, it can sure produce some interesting watter effects.

http://www.dxstudio.com/forumtopic.aspx?topicid=898cb208-b94d-4bf4-aa90-6d9e58c0f52d

Check out on features page what it can do and how easy it is to setup things. It's something like RAD but much more advanced and better.

Also there is possibilite that this one could be made to work with Blizmax if you have need for it :)

seemed a bit buggy to me ie random crashes and failing to reload stuff I had imported

Yes, I got the full free version on a magazine a while back. It's a bit rubbish. It has some nice features, but is also missing some more basic features, and like Ruz says, it's pretty buggy. EG: Tried to load a pretty simple multi-object static mesh. It froze for about 2 minutes, sprang back to life, showed the mesh, then promptly shut down.

Nice! :)

I think I'll give it a miss then

Dabz

i looked at... didn't see much more than a 3d object viewer with a few extras...

--Mike

I'm gonna hold an eye on this one, it looks promissing, when it just matures a bit it's gonna be a strong competition to Quest3D which is nice but I don't like its workflow where you program by drawing shapes basically.

I'd rather try Reality Factory instead.

http://www.dhost.info/realityfactory/

Old engine, but more fexibility, and it still work.

theres a new game published on Garage ganmes called Triba Trouble done in Java, and full 3D. Cross platform too

http://www.oddlabs.com/technology.php