Spring RTS Engine

Thank you all for the help, i got lots of info to keep going now. Really great community. I'm getting detailed topo maps and making them height maps using GIMP. I disagree with your teachers... clearly the first 3D game a 2D game programmer should make is first person asteroids... Perhaps this was m...

I still don't really get what you're trying to do. There is no need to edit the engine to make maps out of a heightmap. I just want to be able to get any 2D map with an altitude reference a make a 3D game map. Even if the 2D is not made by me. For now i also think the option "A" is good e...

... Also, C, C++ and Java are neither 2D or 3D. Games can be either 2D or 3D. And games are often written using programming languages. So your initial paragraph makes little sense. I know, what i meant was that i only worked (with does languages) in 2D. Console app and some windows forms for GUI. A...

Hi I'm a computer science student and I want to dive into 3D game development. I only have 2D basic knowledge (c, c++, java..) now i want to improve my skills and do some 3D projects (games) i would like to keep working with a c++ base but its no "mandatory". I've spoken to some teachers a...