Billy_Hologram wrote:Yes CryEngine, horrendously named but arguably the best licensable engine for 1st person action games.Â
...or build your own so you can spend the money on the bits that are important.Billy_Hologram wrote:I'm considering the cheapest way to get this running, either sell my MBP and get a newer one with a snazzy graphics card which will cost me loads. Or get a shitty Dell which I really don't want or have room for but is probably the only way.
acemuzzy wrote:I'm another Unity fan, at least for easy of prototyping / actually getting stuff done. Â (Just starting my second project - go me!) Â Haven't yet got it onto a phone - need someone to lend me an android (!) - but that's definitely a pro, and the money side is obviously appealing though I won't be getting any cash any time too soon. I'm kind of curious to try CryEngine myself, as it's obviously funky stuff. Â I may do at some stage, but focussing on smaller / non-FPS projects at the mo, so don't really have the time to muck about as much as I'd like. Unity stuff I've gone has all been pretty smooth, but nothing very high-flying. Â I'm a bit confused about my PC spec though - windows is listing 8 2.8GHz cores, and I really didn't think I had that many! Â I thought maybe two, it may be splitting them in four for some reason. Â Intel i7. Â Can't tell you anything useful about CryEngine performance yet though I'm afraid!
LazyGunn wrote:muzzy i'm surprised you've spent so much on a computer and are quite together with your game making but don't know much regarding the i7 aha, the i7 has 4 physical cores but due to fancy technology called hyperthreading each core can maintain 2 threads efficiently - so it's a bit like having a machine with 8 cores, ta dA
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