Project ar 15,what to use agme engine or other route?

SulacoSystems · 23 Jun 2011 at 00:28

hey guys im planning on making a 3d ar-15 builder,the idea is to have a vast amount of real parts to choose from, ideal for real shooters and airsofters who want to visualize a build idea.
ive got the modelling down just need to work out what app to use for the framework,im looking to have multiple parts to change and a way to have full control of the camera angles.
any ideas?

cheers

Zhokel · 23 Jun 2011 at 09:46

I know you mentioned that it's for other people, but would they have to buy it or are you going to be distributing it for free? If free then you can always give UDK a go: http://www.udk.com/ which is free for non-commercial use.

You could also use OGRE: http://www.ogre3d.org/ but that might take a lot more programming to get to work as it's not a game engine so to speak but a graphics engine, so you may have to code some of the interface and such yourself from scratch, though I may be wrong, I've only briefly looked at it.

That's all assuming you're doing Windows of course. UDK can do iOS, but I'm not sure of the licensing side for that.

Tilluss · 23 Jun 2011 at 09:49

What platform are you planning to deploy to? If you are making a 'builder' to display a preview of a real product then you might wanna check out Unity3d as it has a web player that you can embed on your web page.

SulacoSystems · 23 Jun 2011 at 16:59

Zhokel said:
I know you mentioned that it's for other people, but would they have to buy it or are you going to be distributing it for free? If free then you can always give UDK a go: http://www.udk.com/ which is free for non-commercial use.

You could also use OGRE: http://www.ogre3d.org/ but that might take a lot more programming to get to work as it's not a game engine so to speak but a graphics engine, so you may have to code some of the interface and such yourself from scratch, though I may be wrong, I've only briefly looked at it.

That's all assuming you're doing Windows of course. UDK can do iOS, but I'm not sure of the licensing side for that.

It will be free but may move on to be payed on ios,i started learning udk a few months ago ill have a look further into it,cheers

Tilluss said:
What platform are you planning to deploy to? If you are making a 'builder' to display a preview of a real product then you might wanna check out Unity3d as it has a web player that you can embed on your web page.

will try unity out,thanks for the heads up,the web integration looks good would be able to reach more people with that,will dl now cheers