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Damocles wrote a fast treescript for A6. Its using bones animation, therefore it can be used from the com version above.

It generates a variation of a tree and then places some leave sprites wich always face the camera.

The effect is a nice alternative to static trees only consisting of models, it also runs very fast.

If you know speedtree already, you can guess how the whole thing looks in action or you take a quick look at this screenshot.

You can download the free script with a compiled example here.

http://www.wasteland.at/tree_generator.zip

Damocles said its not complete yet but he does not want to put more work into this. So if you need some C-Script practice go ahead! Things like LOD, different sprites or wind effects would make the script even better - have fun with it!

Wicht has released a free DLL for file handling functions wich are not available in wdl script. It is available both as lite-c and c-script plugin.

gs_GetCurrentFolder();
gs_SearchFilesInDir();
gs_GetSearchFile();
gs_DeleteFile();
gs_CreateFolder();
gs_FolderExists();
gs_DeleteFolder();
gs_SearchFolders();
gs_GetSearchFolder();
gs_FileExists();
gs_GetSpecialFolder();
gs_GetWindowsVersion();
gs_GetTime();
gs_GetDate();
gs_GetUserName();
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Hi, there sorry for the little easter delay, i hope you had nice holidays as well!

The Casual Game Contest is now up and running, you can vote for the best of 30 Demos until the 20.04.07. Be shure to download them all at Acknex Unlimited and look what you think should win. Its really worth the time. Because i participate too with my entry Utz Wollewutz i wont go into detail or tell you good/bad things about other entries - you have to find out for yourself. May the best one win and have a lot of fun!

If the rate of updates goes on like this, i will have problems watching it. Ichiro has released a new Indie Superstar Episode just in case you missed it. This time topics are the following games:
FizzBall
Absolute Blue
Peggle
Dumbow & Cool
Addictive Football
Trophy Bass 2007

He also shows us newbies how to catch the real big fish…

George has published a new AUM, (acknex user magazine) this time with a little minigolf game, a shaderdemo from ChrisB and a workshop regarding sounds. Download the issue here.