3D Gamestudio Gamedevelopment 3DGS A6 A7 - free engine tutorials models shaders textures codes

Right, a prerelease of A7 has been released by Conitec. You can download it if you ordered or upgraded your 3DGS Version in the last 2 month..

It contains the new ABT Engine as well as Lite-C and is compatible to A6.50. The whole thing is probably thaught as pretest at your own risk. Have fun testing things out, i would bet now its not long till the official Release of A7 is announced…

Broozar has found a very nice Freeware Tool, to edit icons. Its name is Icon Sushi. With its help you are able to open and edit all thinkable forms of iconfiles. Transparency and alpha channels are supported as well as opening a .dll or .exe file wih the containing icons.
Most of those programs or tools cost a lot of money for the little functionality, this one not, so grab it for your tool library while its hot! Nice Tool!

Begee wrote a nice Benchmark/Statistics tool and told us about in his corresponding thread.
With the tool, wich can be integrated in an existing 3DGS Project very easy, you can monitor the fps better and change relevant options at runtime to improve your performance.

You can download it here, dont forget to post suggestions for beegee and say thanks if you use the tool in his thread.

Bloodline has changed Matt’s Normalmapping Shader a little bit, now it supports 6 light sources with shader model 2.0.

Slin has tested the whole thing and that looks like on the left. He also states that its pretty fast…

Just have a look at the thread for the code, that probably will be changed again some time for the better. Good work!

During my search for good ressources i stumbled upon a fontsite called Aenigma Fonts. This is a private site by Brian Kent who is making fonts since 1995. He put all of his amazing work for free on this site. You dont even have to put a link back or a copyright in any way. This is what you can read on the site:

All of the Fonts on this site are made by me (Brian Kent), and all of them are Freeware. You can use them any way you want to (Personal use, Commercial use, or whatever).

Here a little teaser of the font visitor…

There are really Tons of Fonts for every topic you can think of - in superb quality. For every Font there is a testword, an overview of all characters and a .zip file with the .ttf and more data.

Have fun crawling the site, if you are nice you put a link back to him for his great work!

Gameproducer.net has discovered a very nice way, to rate games content for free. Different from the well known ESRB you dont have to pay a big pile of money for rating your game. With TIGRS you can rate your game yourself.

Yourself? Yep, the developer rates his own product. This system is based upon the good nature of people.

You just visit the TIGRS Generator, fill in a form about your game and in the result you get html code for you homepage to display including a picture.