Quick question, is there much point in buying B3D nowadays? there seem to be quite a few issues with Vista and such.
Buying B3D now?
Blitz3D Forums/Blitz3D Programming/Buying B3D now? Absolutely, Blitz 3D was and still is one of the best purchases I have ever made. I`d certainly buy it again myself. I am also running Vista and have never had any problems.
Despite there beihng very few updates for it these days (which is a shame in my opinion) it is still a very stable engine that has plenty of third party libraries that do pretty much everything that you could want.
I say go for it!
Jason.
Despite there beihng very few updates for it these days (which is a shame in my opinion) it is still a very stable engine that has plenty of third party libraries that do pretty much everything that you could want.
I say go for it!
Jason.
I am with QuickSilva.
I have never had any problems with vista. In fact it runs much faster on vista than on my xp machine with almost the same specs.
If you have bmax it might be good to stay with max3d though. It comes down to what you want to do.
I have never had any problems with vista. In fact it runs much faster on vista than on my xp machine with almost the same specs.
If you have bmax it might be good to stay with max3d though. It comes down to what you want to do.
..B3D still rulez...real beauty for fast prototyping your game(if you working on something bigger) or covering pretty much everything you want for typical casual market...too bad its just windows..
i know to a new buyer it might seem limited being dx7 and released in 2001 (having said that C was released in the 60/70's)
but if it were to stop working and the only fix was a critical rewrite (which i doubt would happen) there is always max+minib3D
too true, without blitz i doubt platypus would have been made unless anthony was willing to hand the game over to a c coder as dark basic at the same time was never aimed at 2D, the same can be said for alot of gfx artists and moddelers who took controll of their dreams instead of just being the artist, c can be seen as too much of a commitment to some people (it is for me)
but if it were to stop working and the only fix was a critical rewrite (which i doubt would happen) there is always max+minib3D
real beauty for fast prototyping your game
too true, without blitz i doubt platypus would have been made unless anthony was willing to hand the game over to a c coder as dark basic at the same time was never aimed at 2D, the same can be said for alot of gfx artists and moddelers who took controll of their dreams instead of just being the artist, c can be seen as too much of a commitment to some people (it is for me)
I spent years with C and fled to B3D when I found it due, as you say, to fast prototyping through to full product in one environment.
Now with the new extras: Blitz Bass Studio, Fast Extensions, physics libs, I'm still sticking with it, and would gladly pay for it again.
Now with the new extras: Blitz Bass Studio, Fast Extensions, physics libs, I'm still sticking with it, and would gladly pay for it again.
Yep, great purchase. I don't think dx 7 will be going anywhere for a while. I reckon it would break quite alot of software. But as MR T! says, blitzmax + minib3d is there.
I use vista !
Blitz3d works as good as on XP.
the only problem i had is that vista handles color 0,0,0 as transparent. so i set color 1,0,0 fixes this.
herse a pic of latest creation.
Blitz3d works as good as on XP.
the only problem i had is that vista handles color 0,0,0 as transparent. so i set color 1,0,0 fixes this.
herse a pic of latest creation.
At the moment there's nothing as easy and powerful for quickly producing a 3D application (provided you can restrain yourself to dx7).
If you want to make a quick and clean 3D game don't hesitate.
If you want to make a quick and clean 3D game don't hesitate.