Flying game.

[kyraneth]

I know alot of engines. Alot. But i have been wanting to make a flying shooter game (planes etc..) and i actually never been so far with an engine as to test it's flying sim capabilities. Can anyone here help me?

3 VERY important criterias:

- flying implementation should be a breeze, i don't want to become blind before i make my first plane take off.
- Multiplayer. Shooting each other.
- Some kind of visual editor, my brain can't grasp the concept write => see

[Sakar]

Unity? Nice editor, easy to learn scripting language, good documentation. I don't have a license, but just from the demo I can tell you that you shouldn't have much trouble with it. The biggest thing is multiplayer since you have to do most of the networking stuff yourself.

[Raven67854]

I agree with sakar unity is a great tool. Another tool you can try is Blade3d.

[kyraneth]

thank you for the sugestions

1400$ for shaders is just fail. that's way i ruled out unity from the beginnig

Blade 3d seems like a good engine, but i also ruled it out cause i HATE it's licensing scheme.

so any other engines i should look at?

[Raven67854]

Well there is always Neo Axis, dx studio.. I am sure there are others within a decent price range.

[hallsofvallhalla]

dx studio is nice. Also look at game maker thought the shaders are not there. you should look at unity again. Unity indie DOES come with shaders. 3d game studio is a nice one also for that type of game.

[Sakar]

Yeah the main limitations of Indie are no Render-to-Texture or fullscreen Postprocessing effects as well as no dynamic shadows. Those shouldn't really be a problem though for this type of game.

[Falken]

I use Irrlicht 3D... a free 3d engine, altho you have to write your own flying code, but that is no big problems, I got my spacecraft flight working quite nice with the 3rd person camera and such

[hallsofvallhalla]

yes Irrlicht is also nice and me and Falken almost ported FS to it at one point. It has a third party wysiwyg editor but you must know some C++ to use the engine.

[Falken]

yes Irrlicht is also nice and me and Falken almost ported FS to it at one point. It has a third party wysiwyg editor but you must know some C++ to use the engine.

I haven't tried the editor yet. Using only c++ code for my project atm Altho trying to learn HLSL too so I can get some awesome shaders too. The only problem I see with irrlicht is the limited amount of learning materials. There is some tutorials, but mostly the basic and not so explaining.