I think its a clever way of promoting a tool. Is it honest? That I cannot say. I still haven't found how to apply a texture to a landscape with Geonardo. I tried the help function, but it returned an empty manual.
So for sure Lenn, if cwegner is a new user and can do all of that, he is a God!
Hi Newborn,
I'm not sure what all your cynicism is all about. You're just antagonizing me to promote it more by making false statements. There's nothing clever going on. I am openly promoting the tool. The API is actually quite throughly documents in the help file, maybe your F1 key is broke?
I think more people should check it out and use it. I've done a lot of searching for good game dev tools and this is the first one that actually gives me access to everything I need right from native C#. I have been a fan of TrueVision3D for a long time, but never had much success with putting everything together to make a game otta it.
I've spent a number of weeks learning the tools on my own and helping to improve them like other users are doing. There's a lot.. it can do a lot, but splatting is actually pretty easy if you give like 5 minutes, it's not even remotely hard. I think that was the first thing I figured out. You add a texture, add a splat, select your terrain, and hit a button. Yea, theres different kind of splats and can take u a bit to learn all the settings, but super powerful once you get it figured out. I'd put some tutorials together, but I'm too busy playing with the tools and I believe someone is already working on creating some for the editor.
If you want to spend a lot of work and code your own game engine from scratch, thats fine, but I would rather focus on creating content and tying in cool storys, multiplayer, etc. Hawthorne has been insturmental in teaching me a lot about concepts, graphics in general, and a lot about the TrueVision3D engine. Which has all helped me get a grasp of the game dev stuff. He listens to what people need and impliments it as reasonablly as he can.
So duh im going to promote it. If you drive a cool race car your probably not going to talk about what a horrible car it is right? You can get the latest 1.2 release at
http://www.zepastudios.com/sales/geoworld_v12.exeGo check it out!
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