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What software can create small 3d games? macromedia director mx 2004?

i wanted to create small 3d games with good or high-quality graphics and textures. Is it macromedia director? please recommend something else as well.

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1. There is a bunch of softwares to develop 3d games, particularly for desktop environment. But yeah!, if you're looking for a dedicated application to design and write 3d games that aims to play on a web site -that is to run over a web explorer- is pretty fair to say that Director mx 2004 is the one solution. If this is your plan (the web aproach), the first thing you've got to keep in mind is to find a decent web-player capable of performing real time 3d functions in a truly native way. Because of this, choosing the options of web-players is limited to 1) distribution aspects and 2) the very nature of the web-player! Thinking' of the distribution, shockwave player (the one that plays director content) is the most spread around the world, followed by wirefusion [1]. Many people (especially actionscript devs) think that flash player must be updated with built-in 3d functions -even there are some initiatives [2]- but the truth is that they consume a lot of ram. In the other hand, the way other web-players are written only let you code 3d functions, and not other 2d script objects (to design menus, interface arrangements, billboards and so on), all this image, vectorial, quads, net routines, sound, video, and full multimedia file actually suportted by shockwave. In the last 3 years I've been working on semi-inmersive 3d virtual visits walkthrough buildings -architecture field [3]- and in my experience, I've got no plans to change my authoring application away from director. P.S.: Feel insecure? download shockwave [adobe] and check: http://www.shockwave.com/shooters.jsp http://www.mockworld.com/ http://www.maidmarian.com/ http://necromanthus.com/Games/ShockWave/quake3.html P.S.2: Of course, in any of web-player you decide, you definitely have to learn scripting fundamentals (to write code!)