From the Quest3D site:

Version 4.0 of Quest3D® is now available from Quest3D resellers and the Quest3D website.

With the release of Quest3D 4.0, Act-3D™ B.V. lifts its flagship to an even higher quality level of real-time 3D application development. New functionality contains real-time support for COLLADA, Newton Game Dynamics, Advanced Weather Simulation, 3D GUI Support and a fully Object-Oriented development model.

The new release is a giant leap forward in real-time 3D software development. High-end 3D software projects, such as 3D architecture visualizations, product and design presentations games and training simulators benefit from the newly supported technologies in Quest3D.

Just of the presses, the ink is still wet, head over here to check out this months newsletter and read up on what the guys at Act-3d are concocting for Quest3D version 4.0! If you are in a hurry, scoll down and I’ll show you the highlights!

Some highlights of this months newsletter:

Quest3D is hiring!

Indeed Quest3D is looking to fill the following job positions, Modeler/Animator (full time), Quest3D Developer (full time), C++ Programmer (full time)

2007 Competition!

Yep there’s another competition coming up! Heads up for more info to follow!

Quest3D 4.0

Quest3D will be better then ever, some new features include: refurbished and more user friendly interface, specialized way for landscape rendering, weather and atmosphere system, GUI system, and maybe the most interesting part Quest3D 4.0 will let you develop in a fully object oriented way.

New forum

Well as many of you already have seen there’s a new and improved forum! It features all available updates and downloads, improved search, image gallery, polls, Spell check

And some nice asides

• Available Jobs
• FAQ Highlights
• WIKI Highlights
• Selected gallery image
• Hot forum topics

In case you’ve missed the big news, Quest3D 3.6 is out now. Including the SDK and the latest exporter for 3DMax.

See the forum announcement here or download 3.6 here.

Congrats Act! We’re pretty confident that this will be the most solid version yet!

A new version of Quest3D is released today, with the following improvements:

This is a list of changes in “developer language”:

• Media texture would always start playing fixed it
• Lua now has a SetWString and GetWString note that lua is NOT compatible with Unicode strings so you can only set it in another wstring but you can’t analyze string in lua other then == etc
• The command channel interface has a bug fix with renaming the channel
• Opening a text channel interface will not set the focus also if there is no text
• Multiple additions to nature painting
• Some bug fixes to advanced motion set
• Added some workflow improvements to the parameter creation
• Fixed a bug where new windows would not be initialized
• The selector channel now has an option to revert back to -1 when nothing is true

Nice list! And I bet not everybody has read the full ‘fixlist’, which you can actually find in your very own installation folder: C:\path_to_quest\Quest3D 3.x.x\readme3.rtf

The final release is getting close now, congratulations Act-3D!!

Download RC1: Quest3D_3_5_5_rc1.exe

Download the SDK: Q3DSDK355RC1.exe

Another update to the CGR exporter.
Get the new version right here!

Bit from the forum:

In new version:
- Better mesh optimization
- Support check box in maps slots

Thanks Artur, keep it up.

For those of us already using Quest3D 3.5.5 there is a new version of the 3d max exporter. This version only works for Quest3D version 3.5.5!

Get the new version right here!

And For the registry hackers amongst us, quoting Tom Beddell:

I have multiple versions of Quest installed. You have to install the version you want to export to last, so that the registry points to the right version I suppose.

Today a Public Beta has been released of Quest3D, we welcome version 3.5.5 beta! Mind you it’s still beta but as far as I can tell a very stable one!

Download of the beta:
quest3d_3_5_5_beta.exe

and the accompanying SDK:
Q3DSDK355Beta.exe

And have a look at the “crude” fix list here

Please everyone who can spare some time try out your projects in this version and let us know through forum about any issue.

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

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.

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.