Ok here''s the deal: I want to start a 3D adventure game like Zelda. What free engines do you know of I could use? I dont want to get down and dirty and make my own, I''d rather take 3 months understanding a good engine, than 3 years making my own. I read somewhere that if you use an engine, you dont have to mess with DirectX or OpenGL and pure C++ writing would be needed for AI, levels, weapons, etc. Is that true too? By the way Im a self taught C++ programmer with little experience but I think I want to explore what happends if I look over some good engines before I get my book, Tricks of the windows game programming gurus...which I''ve heard good and bad things about...:/ --------------------------- let your presence be felt ---------------------------

Take a look at Genesis3D. You can find it a www.genesis3d.com.

I haven''t looked at in a while but it was pretty good when I did.

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