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Tue, 14 December 2004 09:25

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I write games professionally and do some modeling so hopefully I can help. Basically you can mod another game, which limits you drastically or write your own. Either way you're more then likely going to need to code with the source or with some tools that allow this.

There are many engines involved, and believe it or not most new games have 4 or so different engines (sound, visual, etc); that are again based off other libraries and engine structures. The main source code brings all these 'bits' together and allows for advanced parameters and protocols to be made. Thus writing a game from scratch is a very daunting process. Each part of the code needs to be able to communicate seamlessly with one another in order to run smoothly. For a 3D game you will need to utilize the graphical library to be able to utilize the models data successfully (OpenGL, DirectX, etc), and you'll need to have other libraries that can support the rendering facilities if you don't choose to use OpenGL and DirectX.

You can skip some obstacles with such things as collision (which will require X,Y,Z compatiable algorithms) and extensive global variables with hard coding this into the finally executable - but really its much better to separate these into libraries as well.

Sorry if that made no sense, but I'm no good at explaining. Razz

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		3D game maker By: mewhywhy on Mon, 13 December 2004 13:22
		3D game maker By: Jaspah on Mon, 13 December 2004 13:28
		3D game maker By: Madtone on Mon, 13 December 2004 14:09
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		3D game maker By: loser99 on Mon, 13 December 2004 18:32
		3D game maker By: icedog90 on Mon, 13 December 2004 18:41
		3D game maker By: xptek on Mon, 13 December 2004 18:42
		3D game maker By: flyingfox on Mon, 13 December 2004 18:50
		3D game maker By: icedog90 on Mon, 13 December 2004 18:52
		3D game maker By: YSLMuffins on Mon, 13 December 2004 19:37
		3D game maker By: z310 on Mon, 13 December 2004 21:49
		3D game maker By: Madtone on Tue, 14 December 2004 07:45
		3D game maker By: ADM on Tue, 14 December 2004 09:25
		3D game maker By: _Robo_ on Tue, 14 December 2004 15:40
		3D game maker By: WNxCABAL on Tue, 14 December 2004 15:58
		3D game maker By: Dave Mason on Tue, 14 December 2004 16:12
		3D game maker By: z310 on Tue, 14 December 2004 16:24
		3D game maker By: Ultron10 on Tue, 14 December 2004 17:36
		3D game maker By: Sir Phoenixx on Tue, 14 December 2004 19:39
		3D game maker By: z310 on Wed, 15 December 2004 21:09
		3D game maker By: Sir Phoenixx on Thu, 16 December 2004 07:51
		3D game maker By: Madtone on Fri, 17 December 2004 04:43
		3D game maker By: tooncy on Fri, 17 December 2004 14:44
		3D game maker By: z310 on Fri, 17 December 2004 20:12
		3D game maker By: Sir Phoenixx on Sat, 18 December 2004 07:16

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