New (beta) version of the Quest3D 3.5 3dsMax exporter available. Now also comes in Max 9 flavor!

Changes:

• Version for Max 9.0 available
• Loading dll error fixed

You can download the max9 or max8 version.

read more on the forums

read more on the wiki

Another patch for Ship Simulator 2006.

Here’s a blurb from the changelog:

NEW FEATURES
- New upload scores system
- Ship physics adjusted:

- Going backwards now works properly
- More realistic ship behaviour
- Tweaking of parameters

- Inland containership has two engines, this has been changed accordingly
- Free additional skin for the Custom P6

BUG FIXES
- Longitude in New York
- True wind direction fix
- Fixed issue with the horn when switching to a waypoint
- Resolved a bug that made the game crash upon exit
- INSERT numpad key added for creating paths in edit mode

Speaking of patches: someone should think of a proper way of patches .CGR’s. Currently with the Ship Sim we just replace CGRs and channels, so patches can become fairly big quickly. We even have discussion about what to include, just because of the file size… usually we still include everything, we don’t want to skimp on features. But it is a shame nonetheless.
Anyway, if anyone reading this has a good idea about how to patch .CGRs, or knows a program that just does bit/byte differences. Let us know.

The perfect event for the Ship Simulator was of course the Wereld Haven Dagen (World Harbour Days) in Rotterdam 2 weeks ago.

We have the pictures! Loads of people in the booth during those days. Young, old, parents, grandparents. They all sailed away easily and had a good time. Especially when crashing into something :).

Hopefully we will back next year. With an even better version of Ship Simulator.

There also is a new patch available, bringing the harbour-ship-game up to version 1.4.

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!

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.

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

The Wilco Publishing ShipControl Unit

For the REAL ShipSim enthousiast.

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.

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!

A trailer for the upcoming New York harbour was put up on the Ship Simulator 2006 website today.

Have a look at what’s coming here.The patch/extension is planned to be released on August 21st.