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DarkBASIC Professional

5 stars (This is amazing!) - I have downloaded the Trial for this. This programming language is amazing! There are simple commands to do everything related to game programming. Here are a list of features I really like: 1. Loading models and animating them. This is so easy! 2. Matrixes. This is a nice way to do terrain. It also has functions to load heightmaps so you don't have to model your terrain bit by bit in code. 3. newzvalue() and the others. They make it so easy to compute where you will move next. Much better then sin and cosine. 4. Bsp support. It allows you to model huge world and load them and use them as worlds in your game without losing game speed. 5. I'm glad they use the easy BASIC language instead of C. 6. It really compiles your code into machine readable code. Instead of just interperating it. The game will be able to run much faster. I am really hoping I get this for Christmas. Too bad it costs $90... 3 stars (Great expectations leads to disappointment) - I'm an Artist / Animator not a programmer. I tried learning C++, Java, Unreal Script. No matter how hard I try, I just can't learn it. When I heard there was a 3D game engine around which uses a derivitave of BASIC as the core language, I can't tell you how psyched I was. So I went to the DarkBasic website and they have DarkBasic, which is cheap, and DarkBasic Professional, which is a bit more, so I figured I'd check out the basic package and start simple. First thing you find is that there is no real How To Use This Product. There is a help feature of sorts, but code examples are of the cribnote variety: they are not actual working code examples but syntactical representations of code. A college professor with knowledge of basic computer science could decipher it. But if no one has taken the time to explain to you what an X and Y coordinate is, for instance, how are you going to know that X and Y means insert numbers here? Fortunately I did know a bit about BASIC from my old Commodore 64 days...
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