3D World Studio

#1 Look in the Art area for the Cartography Shop forum - it was the precursor to 3DWS and I think there are some threads there about it.

I've been using it for a couple months now and love it.

#2 It is actually all over the forums here. A lot of people are having great success with it. I don't know about in TSE-land, but in TGE it works great.

#3 We are all waiting for constructor..... 3dws is simple but it does not appear to have the same robust features that Constructor will have. And will lack any official support.

Edit: well that's not 100% fair I did buy 3dws but more for education purposes than to use for real interior design.

#4 Ditto.. Constructor is my choice. waiting..

#5 I think Constructor is gonna ship in Jan or Feb.. just a guess. lol 2007...

Could be wrong it could drag on to next Summer.. I don't know.. no one knows.

www.garagegames.com/blogs/985/9142

#6 Great program.. but totally overpriced :(

#7 I bought 3dws because there has been talk about constuctor for a year, it's been advertised on the web site since I started school in 2004 as comming soon. I'm not complaining I know things take time make and test but if your waiting for Constructor you'll probally going to be forever because GG probally want's it perfect and thats a good thing. By the way you get what you pay for Compare Quark(free) to 3dws($79/$119).

#8 I'll I know is Quark sucks and 3dws is not bad for the price. The guy started off on the wrong foot with GG relations but since have warmed to a "chill" instead of a deep freeze since he purchased TGE at least lol.

I purchsed it but stopped using it. Because of pending constructor and I just started doing other things for now.

#9 Whats better Cartography Shop or 3dws?

#10 3DWS is the newest version of Cartography Shop, and it is exponentially better.

Constructor will be really cool, when it comes out. (~2008.. j/k)

#11 Ah i see, ya it looks pretty good. but i've also told constructor is nice. i check it out and looks great, but i think i'm going to get 3dws, since i dont want to be waiting around forever. initially i thought that built in world editor was it :S. but i'm glad it isnt =p

Also i find 3dws resembles a lot like the unreal editor, at least in the terrain functional and UI wise.

#12 BTW does anyone know if 3DWS supports torque model formats for meshes? or only obj, md3, .x and gls files?

#13 Is there a 3dws exporter for DIFs yet? I own the Cartography Shop exporter but I was under the impression that it didn't work for 3dws.

#14 3D World Studio comes with a Dif exporter already.

#15 Is there normal, or bump map support in this program? like can i do maps for the tse demo?

#16 Well, I don't think so but I haven't really messed with 3D World Studio yet because I'm currently working on my player and weapon models. But I don't think it does normal or bump map, but I could be wrong.

#17 I've been looking around, and they say CS + Pipeline can export to TSE. at least they say that on there site. and isnt CS an earlier version of 3DWS?

#18 That is true. Also, you can make bump/normal maps in texture editing programs. (Photoshop)

#19 CS is the litle brother to 3DWS. Both programs have good and bad points to them. I do know that Leadwerks removed some drivers that were usefull and have not added a few drivers that could also be usefull like circles, spheres.

#20 Just use hammer.. it's 99% the same as 3dws.

and yes.. wait for constructor before spending money on it