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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.

There are a lot of new things at the Conitec 3DGS Homepage. New pictures where added to the Screenshot Gallery such as Stromberg a new techdemo and Kabus 22.

In addition Lite C seems to have reached a final status? This is what you can see at the english site. At the german the link still contains the word beta. For those of you unfamiliar with litec here a short quote:

The purpose of this lightweight language is the quick and easy creation of multimedia or graphics applications, or 2D and 3D computer games. It’s syntax is similar to C. So the source code of a lite-C program can theoretically also be compiled with any other C/C++ compiler. However, due to its native support of multimedia objects like sounds, images, movies, GUI panels, game levels, 2D and 3D models you can achieve results with a few lines in lite-C that would require hundreds of source code lines with other C/C++ compilers.

But lets come back to Kabus22. Today was the very first day, that i heard something from this project. It seems to be some kind of horror game for matures. A Video can be found at the Conitec Downloadsite.
All in all it looks pretty good! The best is that it has athmosphear and the style seems to be perfect for that setting. If i would have seen the shots and video anywhere else i wouldnt have guessed that it has been made with A7. Only few teams have done that bevore… But be warned under the video is stated “Warning: this game is not for the faint at heart!”

Maybe all these new content is a sign that the A7 release is not so far away anymore…? Who knows.