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If you are thinking of buying DBPro just make sure you download a trial and evaluate it thoroughly before purchasing. I personally found it sub-standard and very very buggy.

Well, I had that tought in mind for years, that is why I was so surprized that CSG was included in the system! CSG demands ...

Mistrel, I have a PureGDK question: How many animated sprites can you have on the screen at the same time, considering animation (scaling, rotation, deform, transparency, etc.) running at 60 fps? Note that when I'm talking sprite, it's in a 3D scene, but the sprites are 2D with possible perspective ...

Thanks Mistrel for the replies. Actually I'm really surprized that DB Pro has CSG included in it. Of course the runtime size of 5 megs for something so simple as rotating cubes isn't enchanting, but the possibilities of building structure using CSG and possibily using a stencil shadow system that is ...

PerfectAgent007, so you're a PureGDK fan I believe? You're telling me PureGDK can do CSG??? Really? Any example?

Mistrel, sorry the 3 links you provided for the EXE's are broken.

And let me state this again; if I need Dark Basic Pro, I'll go with Dark GDK!
http://gdk.thegamecreators.com/?f ...

Ogre3D is free but is very limited and incredibly slow in PureBasic and has been demonstrated to be almost 140x slower than PureGDK.

Fred, take some notes.

One hundred and fourty times slower???????? How serious is that??? In what context??? I absolutely don't believe this sort of selling point ...

If I were to go Dark GDK, I would use the C++ edition and forget PB alltogether.

PureGDK is not DarkGDK. It is DarkBasic Professional for PureBasic. This means that it is compatible with all of the DarkBasic Professional plugins, unlike DarkGDK (the C++ version).

The key difference is that ...

I think one of the restrictions is that most games require 1 background music and a few or more sound fx going at the same time. in PB 3.x this was not possible unless you use an FMOD userlib. Have this changed at all in the PB 4.x series?

PB should AT LEAST support positional 3D sound + music ...

If I were to go Dark GDK, I would use the C++ edition and forget PB alltogether. Actually I'm more interested in paying for the language, and use it for doing everything. I've spent for plugin DLL's on Blitz3D already (PhysX, Fast Libraries, AShadow) and got everything I could for that language ...

I've heard that PB has integrated Ogre 3D functionalities. Would it be that it is a restrained, simplified implementation of Ogre?

Thanks for all the good tips !

Thank you Fred for the enlightment. Yes the module playback is not the main concern anyway, but yes, modplug support is to me much more interesting than playing mo3!!!

The main concern for me is making 3D. Here are the features I absolutely need:
- Physics engine (possibly PhysX software mode is ...

- I really like ModPlug to play my modules that I composed *in* ModPlug for fidelity.
- Dreamotion is Direct X7 no? It doesn't have shadow system?
- I'm looking at the Irrlicht Wrapper right now ( and it's looking nice!)

Thanks SofT MANiAC

I have never programmed Pure Basic, but this sounds pretty interesting. I'm a Blitz3D programmer for some time, but since Blitz3D hasn't evolved since several years, and Direct X 7 support is gone from Vista, I was thrilled that PB 4.2 will be Direct X 9 ! Also, support libraries from ModPlug is ...