It's supposed to be around $200,000 actually. And that's pretty damn cheap as engines go. :-p
There's definitely no yearly fee. Tom Leighton wrote: > The source engine probably licenses for like $100,000 a year or > something stupid. > > Adam Donovan wrote: > >> well..I would actually pay for this engine stuff ahh I dunno I mean torque >> is what 100 bucks and comes with almost no community support, I tried >> working with it for a while but not many users I found generally share what >> they are doing with coding. And I have thought seriously about moving to >> Crysis engine mainly cause some of my students may end up working for crytek >> and its just so damm nice to make environments with their tools. That being >> said I still love the source engine and I find that I can actually make >> stuff look as good as the crytek engine minus a few shaders(I even post some >> of this stuff later to prove that) it does however bug me that even MaxPayne >> 1 had a particle editor back in 99..ten years ago, and what bugs me more is >> the difficulty in setting up custom player animations for a mod(clear as mud >> and boring when it should be exciting) Maybe there could be some sort of >> subscription to modders who pay for updates so that valve could spend a >> little more time/money sorting out the engine for us, personally Id pay 100 >> a year to see that happen, small chump change but thats more than what I >> have spent on there games in the last year. >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
