Hi
Thank you a lot for your gomments
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I have forgotten to say this tool will be free. I have made itfor my own games, so if this can be usefull for others users, and help agk to get more users, it will be good for every users and tgc
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@GarBenjamin : thanks for your comments. An official tool, why not, it could be interesting for users who want to create a 3d game.tgc can do what they want with this tool.
if tgc want to use this tool, and include it with agk, that as they want. But I guess its better to let them do what they want.
If they want to create another 3d visual editor for agk, its good too. Its better to have the choice I think.
@ george++ : for the moment, the export is a txt file, with informattions easy to use.
I will see if i can add an export in array. But i have several type of assets ( object, camera, particles, lights, world), so I have to find how to save all thoses assets in a unique fille with array save command (I have not use this command for the moment).
@ Golelorn : I think thats 2 differents tools.
Gameguru is more powerfull in gamecreation, terrain modeling, but need a good cpu. With ggloader, its more powerfull, you can have a complete game, pbr shaders, water, lightmap... those tools are simply amazing.
Age 3d is different. Its a tool made in agk, for agk, even if you can use it to create your level for any game engine, its really made for agk
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I think to have the choice is a good thing.
I have buy gameguru in 2015 or 2016, but unfortunately, my pc has a very low cpu, so gameguru doesnt work at good framerate for me (I think, I have 5 to 10 fps by second when i have luke ^^). So I cant use it, unfortunately. If i could, i will ^^.
Its the main reason I have created my own tool to build the levels for my 3d games.
Gameguru is amazing and very powerfull, with ggloader, its more amazing, and very easy to have a complete game made for agk.
This tool (age 3d) is made with agk, this means :
- its wysiwyg : you will have exactly the same level in age 3d and in your game. But its not like the excellent ggloader : it doesnt create the game for you. Its to you to create your game
. Age 3d is only a 3d level editor, with some options usefull.
- you can use it on very low cpu computer like I have
- it should work on windows, mac, linux, we could even have a version in html5, which will be amazing
. I have try it on android too, but it have a lot of shortcuts so, if i would like to have an android version, there are lots of changes to do...
with age 3d :
- you can import and set up your model as you want (set image by stage, set normalmap, lightmap, fogmode, colors, emissive, shader, all you can do in agk, I hope to add it in this tool).
- I will add the possibilities to set up the animations for a animated model (name, frame start, end, speed...) for an animated model (we can do some things , but its still wip).
- I will add the possibilities to select a mesh from an object with several meshs, and set up image, shader on this mesh.
- you can navigate in the level very easily like any modeler tool and specially blender (view top, right, front, perspective, orthographic), zoom, move, rotate the view, rotate on selected object)
- you have some usefull options like hide, freeze objects, lock, snap...
- you can change several properties for selected objects in the same time ( menu edit)
- no undo, redo, but its on my todolist, but you have some resets (rotation, scale), and autosave.
- you czn create differents worlds and save/load it.
- game guru is fantastic to create terrain and model it as you want. Not in age 3d for the moment, I dont know how to do that with agk ^^.
- with gameguru, you can make a complete game, add entities, behaviors and run it, not in age 3d which is just a 3d level editor, not a "3d game maker", even if i have added some simple behaviors.
But, I think the better thing to do is to test age 3d (when i will have a stable version), it will be free. So if you like it or its usefull for you, simply use it ^^.
Cheers !
AGK2 tier1 - http://www.dracaena-studio.com
