Thanks for the response, Kon-Tiki. Was being to think nobody liked me or my stupid post.
I have DarkBasic, and I think my one issue with the package is I find it a little bit 'clunky', for want of a better word.
3D Rad seems more intuitive, and more approachable from what I can gather from the 3D Lite version I've been tinkering with. I have a graphic designer friend who I'm interested working with, and the nature of 3D Rad involves importing objects from your favourite rendering package, and using a Basic scripting language to define the 'brain' of that object - how it will react given a certain circumstance, accuracy of fire, response time etc. But the interface can be more 'point and click' than programming. If anyone's interested, check it out
here. Think it'd be useful for anyone with limited or no programming experience who wants to create 3D (or 2D) games. Might interest anyone like me too, who can program, but are too lazy to start from scratch -
- or who wants to involve a creative friend who's terrified of programming into the game creation process.
Would appreciate your thoughts.