I'd be inclined to be just getting on with using one of the other 3rd party 3D modules. I see that OGRE has been in development for 5 years. Irrlicht and TV3D have been developed extensively for a long time too. By the time Max3D is released these engines will have progressed further.
Personally I don't see how Max3D is going to keep up when the other engines are already so far ahead. Why would I want to be using Max3D if it does not equal or surpass the feature set of Irrlicht or Ogre.
It's also painfully obvious that BRL doesn't like the situation we now have where there are already a number of 3rd party engines working fine. Maybe instead of working against this, BRL could do an official wrapper of a 3D engine similar to how PureBasic has an OGRE implementation. I can't see why it's necessary for Mark to waste his time writing yet another 3D engine. He should be concentrating on the core BMax language, Max2D and MaxGUI.
Personally I don't see how Max3D is going to keep up when the other engines are already so far ahead. Why would I want to be using Max3D if it does not equal or surpass the feature set of Irrlicht or Ogre.
It's also painfully obvious that BRL doesn't like the situation we now have where there are already a number of 3rd party engines working fine. Maybe instead of working against this, BRL could do an official wrapper of a 3D engine similar to how PureBasic has an OGRE implementation. I can't see why it's necessary for Mark to waste his time writing yet another 3D engine. He should be concentrating on the core BMax language, Max2D and MaxGUI.