boy... some people are still soooooo threatened by even the mention of DarkBasic around here... that's absolutely amazing...
Strange.. that's not the way it appears to me.
A lot of people are total idiots. They will leap to the defense of blitz at every opportunity red.
I own both Blitz3D and DarkBasic Professional. I simply gave my opinion of Blitz3D compared to DBPro. As I have said, DBPro does have an advantage over Blitz3D in the fact that it supports shaders. I think if DBPro works for Red better than Blitz3D, than that's fine, I'm glad he's finding some use for it.
I think it's really unfair to call posters in this thread "total idiots". Maybe you would reconsider if you saw these posts:
But hey, wot eva floats ya boat! Good luck
Mike, use the best tool for the job.
etc.
To me, most of the posts sounded very open-minded and helpful. Actually, I'm very grateful that threads like this are possible in the blitz forums.
And guess what? no-one actually ATTACKED blitz!
If you want to read attacks on Blitz3D, this is not the place - try the DB forums, I'm sure there's many there who've never tried Blitz3D and have accepted the brainwashing that "Blitz3D is stupid".
I don't know. Maybe I'm biased. I've used DBPro for years, and read (and blindly accepted) many many posts of how superior DBPro is to Blitz3D (although when asked "did you try Blitz3D?", these people always answered "no but it's a stupid language anyway").
All the annoyances of DBPro (bugs, slow performance, etc., etc.) I took for granted, since I never had anything better. Then, one day, I wondered why Blitz3D is so allegedly stupid. Why are all these people who have never tried it so viciously attacking anyone who mentions "blitz"? So I went over to blitzbasic.com and looked around.
I was amazed by the screenshots in the showcase and gallery. I thought, "This seems too good to be true". I downloaded the demo of Blitz3D, and tried it. Ever since I have always regretted my purchase of DBPro, wishing I had bought Blitz3D all along.
Now I'm not claiming Blitz3D is 100% better than DBPro. For me, I've never found any reason whatsoever why I would go back to DBPro, unless shaders are an absolute necessity (like they are for Red). I actually tried once to go back to DBPro to compete in a new DBPro programming competition, but found myself sitting there wondering how in the world I ever managed to program with a language so unmodular (mainly the object numbering system). I'm sure there's many other advantages DBPro has over Blitz3D, like Zmatrix's information about a single large mesh being slower in Blitz3D than DBPro.
Overall, use whatever programming language fits your needs best. Whether that be DBPro, Blitz3D, or anything else makes no difference to me.
Anyway, good luck with DBPro, Red! I hope you get more use out of it than I have.