As the Quest3D Conference in Wiesbaden is getting closer, the schedule is now known! Be sure to visit the speaker of your interest, and make sure you ask J.P Franssen some real annoying questions about the text-channels, he’ll love that.

Or ask Ferry about why unicode still isn’t functioning properly. Or anything else for that matter :-P.

Anyhow, the schedule can be found here. *UPDATED* The schedule has changed! Thanks Cristopher!

Another read-up for the weekend, again with tools, fun game-related stuff, Quest3D links, articles and more!

Filter Forge.com - A plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to build your own filters for creating textures.

Gameproducer.net - Sales statistics are real life examples on how much games can sell.

Telemarketer counterscript - nothing to do with Quest3D but usefull nonetheless!

hugin - another free panorama tool.

Factory-pinball - Factory Pinball, “the ragdoll pinball game�

Toribash - Toribash is a turn-based physics fighting game.

3-D TV That Actually Works - Wired Article about A new line of 3-D televisions by Philips.

kW X Exporter - Another .X exporter. It claims to export animations, 2 UV sets and all types of geometry. Bold claims! (to be honest, haven’t tried it yet..)

xNormal - Normal-map generator

And really nice is the following link, Adobe’s del.icio.us links collection!! http://del.icio.us/adobe

Got some links we missed? Or should include next time? Mail us!

Newwww and improved version of the .cgr exporter for 3dsmax 8. Now at version 0.1.09.

• Crash bug fixed
• Now exporter is ready to use from max script

Download it and read about it here.

Ship Simulator 2006 New York patch 1.3 released. Yay!

Get it here.

To see more screenshots, check this flickr account.

Yet another readup for the weekend! Each week we scout the web for the most freshest content out there, but we might miss that one great tool, link or article you think should also be included in our list, then please don’t hesitate and enlighten us! (mail your links to questlog[at]rgb255.nl)

Casual Games Research - Casual games relax! Research proves it.

Pixsy - Search pictures

Make it Big in Games - Blog with the do’s and don’t in the game industry

Silo 2.0 Beta1 forum thread - Beta version of my favourite modeller has been released.

Iconaholic - pretty eyecandy for fancyfying your desktop

Google Video - History of Videogames - Enjoy this documentary of the history of videogames

LUA Tutorial - LUA Programming Basic structures and more resources on ozone3D.net

Public Gaming Article - Why We Need a Corporation for Public Gaming

GFX Artist - GFX articles and tutorials

FRAPS - Fraps, a must have, can create screenshots and video captures of all your Quest3d projects

Del.icio.us - Online bookmark / network / Web 2.0 website, once you got an account, you can’t stop. You have been warned.

It’s crazy, it’s large, it’s in control!

The Wilco Publishing ShipControl Unit

For the REAL ShipSim enthousiast.

The first Quest3D conference is going to be in Germany. In Wiesbaden to be exact.Hopefully a lot of valuable/fun/inspiring information will be exchanged.
All the information can be found at:

http://www.quest3d-conference.de/

Be sure to listen to all the speakers there;

Speaker: Remko Jacobs, Ferry Marcellis and Arthur Roodenburg of ACT3 / Alexander Kulagin / Dylan Nagel, Derk de Geus of Paladin Studios / Jean-Paul Fransen, Pjotr van Schothorst of VStep / Simon Sadler of October Tide / weltenbauer. / Alex Horst of yello! / Michael Kobald of pixvertex / Michl Dacher of Dacher Design and many more…

As you can see, the guy running this very blog is a speaker there!

Artur Brzegowy now has his own little spot on the Quest3D Wiki for his 3dsmax-to-CGR-exporter.

Which you can find here.

You can also download the latest version of the exporter there. Currently, the beta version is up to version 007.

Well maybe not in the near future but it’s certainly heading in the right direction! Good old Bill gives (indie) developers the tools needed to create games for the Xbox 360 with it’s “XNA Game Studio Express“.

Read more here and here.

We’ve all been waiting to get a little hands on experience with the recently created demos for the Quest3D demo competition. Act-3D released the DVD today, so point your browsers to http://www.quest3d.com/ and start downloading (and spreading) the 3.11 GB worth of eye-candy!