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Hey kyrathaba, have you seen anything that looks good for C#? (I'm sure you've looked into it more than me.)

Hey kyrathaba, have you seen anything that looks good for C#? (I'm sure you've looked into it more than me.)

Unity 3D can be used with C#.

Yeah, there's definitely a lot to learn but Unity makes things fairly easy. A couple years ago I was attempting to make a game in Torque Game Engine (which is a now-deprecated 3D engine which has been "replaced" with the new Torque 3D) and I could not figure out how to do much of anything at all, even following a book or reading tutorials.

But with Unity I've been able to follow a few tutorials or read the documentation and work my way through making things happen. It's great and a lot easier than it could be.

An example is quaternions^w. I don't even understand what quaternions are or how they work. All I know is that they are 4-dimensional things that allow you to avoid something called gimbal lock^w that occurs when rotating in 3-dimensions (and I can't wrap my brain around them). I'm not sure I understand exactly what gimbal lock is either but I know it causes objects to not rotate the way you would think you are telling them to. Unity comes with built-in functions that automatically convert the "easy to understand" 3D rotations into quaternions and back again.

I've been really impressed with Unity and how (relatively) easy it has been to do things with it. And if you're willing to spend some money, there are some really great looking third party tools/plugins for it that make certain other things easy enough for people who don't know much programming to make games.

Does anyone here know of game-editor ?
It would be nice to read a mini-review or your opinions about this multiplatform opensource product.

A bit late, but...

An example is quaternions^w. I don't even understand what quaternions are or how they work. All I know is that they are 4-dimensional things that allow you to avoid something called gimbal lock^w that occurs when rotating in 3-dimensions (and I can't wrap my brain around them). I'm not sure I understand exactly what gimbal lock is either but I know it causes objects to not rotate the way you would think you are telling them to.

Don't feel bad. In the 1860's to 1880's the world of physics had only a few people that could understand the mathematics of Hamiltonian quaternions, which were a pre-requisite to understanding Maxwell's equations. Under pressure from other scientists and publishers, the equations were dumbed down to algebraic vectors so that us mere mortals could understand them. It had negative consequences in the same way that gimbal lock occurs and how Hamiltonian quaternions solve the problem. So, today we're stuck with electrodynamics that are partial at best. It's worse when in 1957 we discovered that we're doing everything wrong, and yet still plod on with flawed mathematics and physics. The problems that Hamiltonian quaternions solves echoes the same kinds of problems in the Einstein field equations and how they work by removing torque, which there echoes the gimbal lock problem of rotation. I'm still working on understanding the math for all of that myself, and don't expect to fully understand it for quite a while. The basics of a quaternion are pretty simple though, and very similar to how you might envision a complex number:

i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = -1

Still, it's a lot to wrap one's mind around, even in it's most basic formulation there. It messes with what one's idea of a square is.

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On the game side, Monogame seems pretty decent. Still haven't given it much of a spin, but had a quick look at it. It covers a lot of ground.

http://monogame.codeplex.com/