3d box for rpg maker manual#
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It’s time to do the one thing I should’ve done before I started making anything – read the manual from cover to cover.

The right mouse button does nothing, the arrow keys do nothing… ah! It movement must be the numerical pad! I poke a few keys and instantly mess up everything, only able to view my beautiful box from a selection of unhelpful angles with no way to reset. I’d like to take a proper look at this box, to bask in its cuboid magnificence. It’s straightforward, definitely 3D, and probably achievable even for a complete novice like me.Īnd to 3D Construction Kit’s credit making a cube really is easy, even for this blog-writing idiot: I click the “Create” button, then select the “Cube” option, and that’s it! Boom! One 3D box appears before me, rendered using the raw graphical muscle of the Amiga 500. I look at the array of buttons on the bottom half of the screen. OK then… a fish! I imagine a 3D fish, all angled pointy bits and triangle fins. Now all I need to do is use all of these clearly-labelled buttons and drop-down menus to make something… I know, I’ll make… a cat! No wait that’s probably too complicated for a first go. Having the default background split between green “grass” and blue “sky”, and being able to see the edges of the “grass” plane from where I’m standing, makes it relatively easy to tell which direction I’m facing even when there’s nothing else in here.

3d box for rpg maker code#

I’ve got the tools, I’ve got the talen- OK I’ve just got the tools but 3D Construction Kit makes a great first impression, automatically booting to a clean workspace and displaying an interface that looks like something designed to be understood by people who don’t code 3D construction kits for a living. This later Amiga port (the program is also available on Atari ST, PC, Amstrad CPC, and C64) harnesses the greater processing muscle of Commodore’s hardware to bring in a range of enhancements as well as a slightly ( slightly) better frame rate. On cassette. It’s incredible to think they got anything like this out of Sinclair’s little machine even purely as a technical proof of concept, never mind taking it to commercial release ( Knot in 3D obviously came first, but this is far more detailed and ambitious). You may be thinking nothing could possibly be more unsuited to creating home-made realtime 3D than a single Amiga 500 floppy disc from 1991 – but this polygonal game-maker actually debuted on the Spectrum. And I know these programs never, ever, as easy as they say they are and I never really make anything with them anyway, but I can’t help but give it a go just in case… Just when I think I’ve finally put my dreams of releasing a critically acclaimed bestseller to bed 3D Construction Kit comes along and says “Hey you, normal person – would you like to make a game? Would you like making said game to be easy? Then we have the perfect floppy disc for you!”.

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