RE: [GD-General] Prices of well-known 3D engines

[Gareth L. <GL...@cl...>]

> Gareth Lewin wrote:
> 
> >Because free engines don't include support, wont make 
> changes to suit you
> >and your time schedule, and in general (I haven't used 
> crystal space, so I'm
> >not giving an opinion on it at all!) they are not as good as 
> high quality
> >commercial ones.
> >
> I agree that CS still is not as good as some commercial alternatives. 
> But I object
> to not giving any support. We very actively support our 
> users. 

There are many kinds of support, if I pay a quarter of a million dollars for
something I can expect a differant level of support, I expect the engine
writers to fix a bug I found as first priority, and for them to burn the
midnight oil for me. BTW I'm not saying that is what you get, I'm saying
that is what I expect.

Crystal Space is (AFAIK) more of a volunteer like project, so if all of you
decide to go on holiday to Australia, that is find, and I don't "deserve"
more.

And as a side note, I've only ever heard good things about CS.

> There is 
> a mailing list,
> a message forum, an IRC channel (a VERY active one), and bug 
> and support
> trackers. In general I think we support our users VERY well.

Cool.

> 
> >
> >I specifically said Read:"Very good". Buying an engine which 
> isn't a good
> >one will probably end up costing you more than writing one yourself.
> >
> Depends. In this particular case CS is Open Source. So you can always 
> modify it
> to suit your needs.
> 

You miss my point, if I have to spend time working out how the engine works,
and then spend time making changes to it, the price rises and I might as
well have started from scratch.

BTW, please people take all this with a grain of salt, I'm just voicing
opinions. Please no-one who has written a graphics engine take offense in
what I said.