Quest3D
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Basic data
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developer | Act-3D BV |
Current version | 5.0 (March 2012) |
operating system | Microsoft Windows |
category | Game engine |
License | proprietary , discounts for educational institutions |
German speaking | No |
www.quest3d.com |
Quest3D is a 3D engine ; linked to a development environment based on it. Quest3D is mainly used in the areas of architecture, product design, computer games, training software and simulation environments. Quest3D is developed by Act-3D BV from the Netherlands . The first Quest3D version is dated September 2001.
Development environment
Quest3D is programmed using a graphic programming language. The program can be changed during runtime, there is no need to compile. A program is made up of a number of "channels" that are linked to one another. The program creates a directed graph . This is traversed at runtime. Quest3D also offers the option of declaring subgraphs for objects and using them in the rest of the project in a similar way to other object-oriented programming languages . About Lua -Skriptknoten functionality can be programmed which would be overly complex in imaging by means of a graph structure. The individual nodes are available in Quest3D as compiled code, so there is no compilation step. Quest3D is also not a virtual machine , but offers the full performance of machine code (with the exception of the Lua code). In addition to the main view, in which the scene graph is edited, Quest3D offers further editors to manipulate 3-D models directly, control animations, program shaders, create scripts or edit data bindings.
Deployment
Once a project has been completed, it can be exported as a separate Windows application or integrated into a website. In the latter case, the browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox are supported.
System requirements
(May vary depending on the functionality used)
- Windows 2000 , Windows XP , Vista (64 or 32 bit) and DirectX 9
- 256 MB main memory
- 1 GHz processor
- DirectX compatible graphics card with at least 32 MB memory
- 400 MB free space on a hard disk
Licenses
Quest3D offers licenses for commercial use and for the educational sector.
use
Computer games , architecture visualization , serious games , simulations, television and film productions .
Games
- Audiosurf , a puzzle, music game from Invisible Handlebar, which won several awards at the Independent Games Festival
- Ship Simulator , a game by VSTEP
- Leo, a game for children from Ovos real-time 3D
- Chicken Football, a game made by Paladin Studios
- The Endless Forest, an online game and screen saver, from Tale of Tales
- The Path , a short horror game from Tale of Tales
- Twinners, an interactive television game (demo)
Web links
- Quest3D homepage
- Quest3D Blog ( Memento from February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Quest3D specification. DevMaster.net
- Dylan Fitterer: The road to IGF . Gamasutra. "Rapid gameplay iterations are crucial to me, so I use Quest3D for everything else."