No, not implying that it was you, just mentioning it, because for it's time it was like the only low cost, free for personal use, good featured 3d paint program, and I worked with the developers on it closely to add new features, fix bugs, etc.. and it got to a point where he could no longer add newer and better features we were working towards without switching his code over to C++ and a different engine.
The dev died off, and I couldn't figure out why, until I finally caught up with him again, and then he told me the whole story how even though he made a move to be more nice to people instead of releasing a feature crippled trial edition, he released a full featured working free version for people to use personally, and instantly registrations died off, people started pirating it, and just killed the apps chances for him to make some money, doing something kewl, then he said, also, that the only reason he did it, was there was no low cost alternatives to zbrush, 3d painting apps, but now that there were so many, that was another reason for stopping, but he added if it hadn't been abused, he would have most likely kept up dev on it..
Sad really, cuz at the time it was the ONLY 3D paint program that would work on my older tablets too with the junky intel built in videocards, another feature I helped him add to it, and suggested, to add the software mesa gl drivers to allow us fujitsu / acer travelmate c300 and the like users to be able to paint models right on the screen without paying an arm and a leg for the newer tablets.
Thats ok though, because now I have a P-Active LCD Tablet, much better, and still pretty cheap alternative to wacom cintiq, $825 instead of even now their new touted low price of $2000, which only has 17" of actual working space on the screen, and mine has the full 19", and 1024 Levels of pressure, I also like the adjustable leg setup in the back better than the Wacom..
Anyways, don't want to sound like another sales pitch, but it's hard to tell people about something kewl you've found without sounding like it, you know, btw: if your interested the P-Active you can snag at amazon for the cheap price I talked about above instead of the higher price at the main sales sites of the manufacturer. Oh well, I promise guys, I'm not a sales man for anyone or anything, but I do fully support and talk about products I like, own, and find on all my forums I use, hence the mention of DBPro & Dark.GDK and Dark Physics, FPSC, all the other kewl products like Character Shop, Cart. Shop, Dark AI, all of the other million TGC & affiliate products I own.. hehehe.
I do tell the users on say for instance Silo's forums about how well their product works for use in all of the TGC's Products I use/own. I just like helping people, I mean whats the point of keeping something to yourself, Game Creation would never have come this far, on that idea, think about if John Carmack, Larry Myers, Garry Kitchen, Ken Silverman had never posted howto articles in Dr. Dobbs Journal, or answered peoples questions via email, and even provided code samples, wrote papers about the theories, ideas, suggestions, and then howto books on making 3D Engines.
If I would have never released my DXF->3DO Sourcecode on Cavedogs own chatroom, along with that first unit, Kinboat would have never joined up with me to make that Unit Editor known as: 3DO Builder, and that was a selfless act, since it took me 48 Hours straight with no sleep to reverse the 3do format the hard way... Since noone at the time had it figured out, regardless of what they claimed. I know this because after I released it, me and Kinboat did the editor, I got the dreaded cease and desist letter from cavedog, then later after talking with me about it, they agreed to let it go, since our editor turned out to be better than the inhouse editor they used to make the game.. heheheh. They just told me, they wished I had released it differently instead of on their chatroom..heheheh It threw a monkey wrench into their one new unit a week release plan.
Anyways good talking to you, I enjoyed the memory lane trips.. If you need any of the Web addresses or more info just pm me..
Ciao' 4 now,
StOrM3
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