Bitgap: Plans for the near future + CCK / DTSViewer bundle

The Cliff Construction Kit - July Bundle!

The Cliff Construction Kit is a lightweight solution to create realistic cliffs and overhangs in your terrain.

It includes 15 base cliff shapes and 55 materials resulting in over 800 different cliff bases. Top this with the possibility to pour any kind of material over your cliff - a feature we call material accumulation - and your scene will look very very pretty. Really.

Check out the CCK video about what it can do:


If you get the Cliff Construction Kit now you receive a copy of the DTSViewer.

What else is cooking?

Once Torque 3D's 1.1 release is out, Bitgap Games will be launching a new product called SAHARA. Sahara is a tool that is built right into Torque 3D's material system and lets you use material accumulation on anything. Why would you still want to get the Cliff Construction Kit? Because Sahara will cost around $60 or more. Existing Cliff Construction Kit licensees will get it as a free upgrade, however.

We are working on other neat features that are still waiting for the 1.1 release. One such example is an inventory system entitled STAX that you can use for both MMOs (it doesn't trust the client) or single player games. It is a very versatile system that lets you mimic the behavior of most RPG inventories. This inventory system will be seeing many small addons, such as icon packs, item generator toolsets, and similar features. There's no ETA for these, however.

Finally, probably the best news about what's cooking is that we're finishing up a new kind of master server that will not only manage your server instances, but it will be able to control Amazon EC2 cloud instances - and launch new servers on demand. Right now, we call it THE OVERSEER, but that might change later on. It is a very complex self-balancing system that still needs a lot of testing - but this is something we want to push out as a Torque module in the coming months.

Again, here's where you can get the Cliff Construction Kit & DTSViewer Bundle.

Thanks for reading. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
All comments are very much appreciated! ;)

-- Konrad

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