TrueSpace5 VS. Gamespace?

#1 Your first step into the world of 3D!

3D Starter Kit for for only $39.95!

just to add that :/

#2 TrueSpace is their full product. GameSpace is their game-oriented product, which has a stripped down featureset. All of the plugins that are for GameSpace will work with TrueSpace.

So you should get TS.

#3 Does the torque plug in goes back to TS 5?

#4 I don't think so. I think GS was based off of Version 6. You should check the forums at Caligari to be sure, though.

I didn't think they even sold 5, but I guess they do that to get you hooked on their software. I wonder what the upgrade price to 7.5 is.

#5 Thanks. I was going to buy gamespage after i start learning to model alittle in it. Ive used 3ds max student version for 6 years and i know that application well but finidng an app that feels as comfortable has been my problem.

I want to buy 3Ds max but theres no way i can afford it.

#6 GameSpace is based on trueSpace 6 (think of it as a Lite version, without NURBS and whatnot). Bones in 5 and 6 are so broken it's not even funny (well, it actually is funny until it happens to your work). trueSpace 7.5, honestly, is trueSpace 7.5 and trueSpace 6 combined with a "bridge" between the two "modes" to translate the scene. The "Rosetta" mode is very fast and has very nice bells and whistles, but not as usable as the "legacy" mode, as far as I'm concerned, since switching between the two will lose some undo information, depending on the tool used, and it doesn't look like plugins work in Rosetta mode. As time goes on, tS7.5 is supposed to migrate the tS6 legacy tools over to the Rosetta side of things, and they are supposedly going to open their formats again so plugins can come out, but if I hold my breath on that, I'll probably die...

#7 I've been using TrueSpace since version 2, about 12 years, and I currently own version 7.5 and
the current version of GameSpace. For Torque modeling, GameSpace has what you need. The extra
stuff in TrueSpace is primarily for full blown animations that will be rendered to video.

So some of the answer to your question depends on what you intend to be doing with it.

I've also seen a post that says that Torque Constructor is best for DIFs, while many of the other
programs out there like GameSpace are best suited for DTS models. So far I tend to agree with that.

On my desktop right now I have,

- TrueSpace 7.5
- GameSpace
- MilkShape
- Blender
- 3D World Studio
- Torque Constructor

Since I have the long standing relationship with TrueSpace I find the others very difficult to navigate.

Anyway, for $39.95 it's still an excellent deal.

Looking at the site I also see that they have a TrueSpace7.5 bundle for $395, and GameSpace is $299.
Considering the high cost of many packages out there, that's also a really good deal. Especially for what
the Caligari packages can do.

#8 You might be interested in this : a gameSpace 1.6 group buy. The more people buy the program, the lower the price gets for everyone. More information on the page

I'm considering the alternatives (such as blender) and I find the MAP exporter to be really tempting.

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