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jsh3d
02-08-2007, 08:04 AM
Last week Breezeway Studios (http://www.breezewaystudios.com) released a new version of the Baja Engine (http://www.bajaengine.com) that now includes support for bones, animation, and the scene graph!

The Baja Engine (http://www.bajaengine.com) is a free game engine that includes all the tools you need to make a game, including 2d/3d graphics, scripting, and audio. It includes advanced features like shaders and framebuffer effects. Plus, it integrates very closely with XSI or the free Softimage Mod Tool. Softimage scene files or dotXSI files can be directly converted to level files, and they will retain most of the properties assigned in softimage, such as materials designed in the render tree and animation. It was used to produce the commercial game The Lost Mansion (http://www.thelostmansion.com).

Check it out!

http://www.bajaengine.com/thumbnails/n5.jpg

http://www.bajaengine.com/thumbnails/animpic.jpg

http://www.bajaengine.com/thumbnails/n7.jpg
(http://www.bajaengine.com)

R10k
02-08-2007, 08:26 AM
Interesting... I remember trying this a while back when I thought it'd cost something, and it ran like a dog on my non-pixel shader friendly 3D card. Now I know it's free (donationware) I'll give it another look.

Nice work for promoting indie development.

EDIT: Also, thanks for making it compatible with version 4.2 of XSI ;)

jsh3d
02-13-2007, 10:51 PM
Thanks for checking it out R10k. Yah, the demos do run slow on older cards but we didn't really have much time to work on making those specific demos scale... the engine could run acceptably on older cards if you design your levels with them in mind.

-jsh3d

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