GameStart - Announcements

Introducing Pure3d Visualizations – digital essences

mbetke — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:11:49 +0000

Hi I would like to introduce my 3d service company and model shop here.
Basically I run a small but well connected (with other freelancers) company which focuses on tailored game asset delivery and architecture visualizations. Mostly environment modelling and level design services. Some people would call it outsourcing-company. But this term always has a bad smell like yet another low-cost, low-quality, non-responding and not-delivering company.

With Pure3d I follow the philosophy to deliver fine-arts with a minimum of revisions, data security for my clients and of course delivering in time while putting all my heart and passion for game-art into it.

I operate under the brand “pure3d visualizations – digital essences” since spring 2010 after freelancing for some years. Pure3d is located in Germany.
Clients are from different sectors. We have large companies which need game-art or realtime-visualizations services for architecture or landscapes. Some are game studios others are from serious-gaming and not game related. Even some military training stuff has been done by us. Indy-Dev’s are consulting Pure3d because we offer nice sale models – not for free – but negotiable.
Finally even some coders and engine-developers are in our portfolio because they need some nice stuff to replace their “coders-art” ;-) or use our assets for prototyping their projects.

Due this demand I restructured the small but growing online-shop from offering game-model collections to individual assets. Some clients don’t need exclusive content so I’m allowed to re-sale them in the shop too. Most of the models are vegetation assets because it seems hard to do with a decent look. I put together some rough specs/benefits (taken from the pure3d website):

Source files included where available (.max 2010)
Free updates and fixes to the assets. You will be contacted via Newsletter.
You buy once. No royalties or seat-license model.
Top notch quality. Some may call it even AAA. ;)
Coherent in style. Never get messed up color or scale again like you get if you buy from different vendors.
Affordable price for every developer.
We cover up the most used file formats like max (2010), .gmf, .3ds, .dae, .fbx (2009) and .obj format.

Thanks for your interests and don’t hesitate to contact us over at pure3d if you need some more information’s.
Hey, and because you read this whole long text up to the end I put one of 100 - 30% discount codes - here for the shop checkout: THX4READING :-)
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www.pure3d.de | www.pure3d.asia | http://shop.pure3d.de
Contact: mail@pure3d.de

Introduce Yourself

François Gutherz — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:27:35 +0000

There's no community without people, and there's no people without a story.
Tell us your story! Here you can introduce yourself, tell everyone who you are and what you do.
Feel free to share any photo, drawings, website url or works you've done.

Looking forward to get to know you all!

Hello.

s13n1 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:38:53 +0000

I'm very new to GameStart, only downloaded it about an hour ago.

So far ive been very impressed by the tutorial videos, the editor looks great, lighting is very nice and and the potential to create large terrains with 50cm precision is really attractive. The website is very nice too, with minimum fuss and easy to navigate.

I am currently looking for an engine for my project and i have been unable to find something that i am totally happy with. I have used Cryengine 2/3, Unigine, Unity and Leadwerks. There are some characteristics of this engine that had me wondering if it was in fact based on Leadwerks, but i see no mention of it anywhere.

I was very impressed with stress test video and i was hoping to create a scene like this myself.

I'm currently trying to import my heightmap so i can test the engines performance. The heightmap is 4096x4096 and i have tried importing it using several different formats without success.

My process is as follows: Open sample project, create new scene, add terrain with 4096 dimensions and texture set to High, select terrain in the identifier window and in the properties tab select 'terrain menu' > heightmap > import from file. Some computing takes place but then nothing of interest happens. I've tried scaling the heightmap but this had no effect either.

It would be great if someone could walk me through the process or provide a link for a heightmap tutorial.

Thank you.

RocksHD - Now available with 20% limited discount

mbetke — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:08:17 +0000

I hope I don't spam this Announcement section too much here this month. But anyway. GameStart is a great engine and I have great and suiteable assets for it so please tell me if its too much. ;))

RocksHD features 35 rock models including different geological types like sandstone, greystone, edged rocks, large formations and even dark lava rocks. It's aimed mainly at game-developers but also useable for all other people in the 3D field of course.

Each rock has been hand-crafted in Zbrush with also painted 2048px textures made from then high-poly bake including normals, AO and Cavity. The textures are seamless which means you can rotate each rock in any angle without looking at nasty edges or texture seams giving you all artistic freedom your project deserves.

Like usual lots of common model formats are supported: .max (2010), .fbx (2009), .obj, .3ds, .dae (OpenCollada) and .gmf (Leadwerks)
Also textures included in the .fbx for easy drag&drop functionality plus .dds 2048px normal,diffuse and specular setup.

You can see all models in this pdf: http://shop.pure3d.de/attachment.php?id_attachment=8
Or just go directly to the shop: http://shop.pure3d.de

Grr my screenshot doesnt use [img] http://pure3d.de/Leadwerks/rocksHD_3D-Model-Pure3d_Closeup.jpg

The pack is 30 Euros so not even one Euro for each asset making it a no-brainer.

"Rocks and Stone" - the current rock set I also run - will be reduced permanently from 20€ to 15€ for smaller budgets. :)

AAA Quality "Vegetation Starter Collection" released - 27 models 20% discount

mbetke — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:48:32 +0000

Hey GameStarters. :D
Just in February - my companies second anniversary - I finished a brand new vegetation model pack siuteable for all game-dev people in need of a quick kick-off with their projects. The pack fits perfect to our well-known rocks and stones or ground plant set.

I offer five different model formats, including .max, obj, fbx, dae, 3ds and of course custom made textures for each vegetation asset. Level of detail models are also in there for most models.

I get an error message if I try to insert a image: http://shop.pure3d.de/107-204-thickbox/vegetation-starter-collection.jpg

The shop also got completly redesigned and structured for a better user-experience and overview. Each category has free models of course. So try before you buy! :)

Look at the models here: http://shop.pure3d.de/attachment.php?id_attachment=7

Get the pack here: http://shop.pure3d.de/107-vegetation-starter-collection.html
And don't forget to use the 20% discount: P3D-ANNIVERSARY

35% Pure3d X-MAS Sale and new real-time furniture introduction

mbetke — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:54:59 +0000

Christmas is coming. So it’s time for another sale at Pure3d Visualizations. Until the next two weeks you can get 35% on all products on the shop.

Just enter PURE3D-XMAS-35 during checkout to get one of the 50 discount vouchers.

Also note the new but growing section of special real-time optimized furniture models from several famous manufacturers over the world. They are highly optimized, come in different model formats with 2048px textures and have an extra lightmap channel if you prefer baked lighting solutions in your interiors. Use this high-quality furniture if you work with GPU rendering like iRay, Octane or real-time applications like Lumion, Twinmotion or any other engine where performance and low resource usage is needed for fast frames or render-times.

http://shop.pure3d.de/14-category/real-time-furniture.jpg

The library will be extended and feedback on new models is also appreciated.

Link: http://shop.pure3d.de/14-real-time-furniture

Future

pekar666 — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:36:54 +0000

mr.Admin

Hello, I think you need to let your engine open source, how does a company garagegames. I bought their game engine Torcue 3d, and very pleased at. With open source torcue 3d I can develop it to a different extension and then sell them through their shop - it's very enhances their engine, and hence demand. You certainly can take with you extension developers a percentage of sales. Your engine to be honest I like the silent more than torcue 3d. Think about my proposal, now the competition is huge game engine, and you do not have a count as programmers in Unity for example. Allow the engine licensees extend the capabilities of your engine and you will not lose.

..hello to all from new member..

Ecco — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:16:38 +0000

..hi guys..my best regards to all of you, and since im beginner, i hope you don't mind me asking some questions, even they may look not so important for ya :) .. also, i would like to know how to purchase this system?? I cant see any buy button or something?? Also, I would like to know what are supported platforms and licensing details/price about each..so, happy coding guys and i hope to hear from you soon :)

new version beta-8

TheExplorer — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:24:05 +0000

Hey, lazy guys! You released a new version and didn't publish an official announcement!
Ok, I red about it in a forum topic and downloaded immediately.
I will check it.
One question: I noticed that the shadows are still... ehm... not so clear. I red that someone made some tests to improve them. Why the shadows are still a little bit "bad"?
Did you made some modifications to improve compatibility with Intel video cards? I wanted to test this version on my notebook (intel M4 video card).

Ok, I will give you a feedback as soon as possible!
Cheers!

Happy New Year to all !

diedir — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:07:13 +0000

I wish an happy new year to all the community !!

thanks to great devs who work a lot to make a great solid engine

have fun