Game Engine

Solidus · 7 Apr 2006 at 21:05

Just a thread about your opinions on what is the best, coolest, great for modding etc...of game engines that have been released or up and coming

HangTime · 7 Apr 2006 at 21:07

Serious engine is damn cool for the LoD optimisations, allowing huge levels with vast numbers of monsters on screen at once whilst maintaining acceptable performance.

The Far Cry engine is good for rending lush environments both outdoor and indoor.

Quake3 engine is good for it's scalability on a wide range of hardware. It's so good I still use it for benchmarking changes to my system setup.

benjo · 7 Apr 2006 at 21:08

I would have thought the Source engine is good, seeing as there are so many mods/remakes coming out

Jack Bauer · 7 Apr 2006 at 21:19

yer valve has always been the best. Speaking of source was I on a server with you a few hours ago benjo? on css

p4radox · 7 Apr 2006 at 22:20

The Source engine is great.

I spend most of my time with the Quake 3 engine though in its various incarnations.

William · 7 Apr 2006 at 22:26

Personally liked the unreal engines.

da_mic_1530 · 7 Apr 2006 at 22:34

my fav engine was the mafia one,

1. cos its me fav game eva
2. cos it was called the LS3D engine, which i thought was funny, obv LSD

MoNkeE · 7 Apr 2006 at 22:35

William said:
Personally liked the unreal engines.

The map editor's horrible for anything but experts though.

-RaZ

Psyk · 8 Apr 2006 at 12:28

Unreal Engines are very good for modding. I can find my way around the map editor and I'm not a mapper at all. From a coding point of view you get a lot of freedom and it's not too difficult to turn it into a completely different game. UE2 is getting on a bit now, it's no where near other engines in graphical quality now. If UE3 is as easy to mod (by the sounds of it, it will be easier because it has a visual scripting system which allows level designers to dictate some gameplay without needing to code) it will be the best of both worlds. Source is also easy to mod although I hear the coding is not quite as easy as Unreal, but it obviously gives a lot of freedom because of the mods we've seen come out of it.

DaveyD · 8 Apr 2006 at 12:49

Quake 3 Engine, just feels so smooth and flows so well to me.

Then it's either between Source or Doom 3 engine.

William · 8 Apr 2006 at 13:45

MoNkeE said:
The map editor's horrible for anything but experts though.

-RaZ

Seriously? I found it the easiest to use. This may be because its the one I learnt first. I should probably have a go a Q3 or Source one. :confused:

Caged · 8 Apr 2006 at 14:02

MoNkeE said:
The map editor's horrible for anything but experts though.

-RaZ

Much preferred it to WorldCraft

iBot · 8 Apr 2006 at 16:23

The only problem with unrealed is you start with a block of cheese instead of a big empty void so the work flow is diffrent.

But thats not really a problem, just a diffrent way of doing things.