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Nocturn · DeleD PRO user Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 635

As a Microsoft Gold Certificate i'm getting always Newsletter about new Microsoft Products. Today i had this eMail in my Inbox:

Paul-Jan · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject:

Cool, thanks for sharing!

From the download pages, looks like I need .Net 3.0 and Visual Studio Express.. that's pretty steep! I am pretty sure it will work without Visual Studio, but that does suggest the "data binding" part is pretty important.

Can someone please tell me what this tool actually is all about? Is this Microsoft's attempt to revive the GMax concept? Is it an awesome modeler geared towards the XNA community? Is this Microsoft's "Google Sketchup"? Some inside information and feedback from people who actually try this stuff out would be great... ! Very Happy

Nocturn · DeleD PRO user Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 635

jwatte · DeleD PRO user Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 513

It's somewhat like Macromedia Flash, or possibly Shockwave. You produce interactive content that can be delivered on the web. If you're to use 3D, models need to be imported from elsewhere.

RichElswick · Member Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 5

yup, a lot like Flash. Targetted directly at Flash you might even call it Microsoft's Flash killer.

Of course penetration matters. There is a lot more to it than that of course.

You need VS as an editor for the back end, if you decide to do some custom coding and things not done in the Blend design IDE. So, C# is to Blend as Actionscript is to Flash. Of course, the advantage there is that with C# you get the full gamut of .NET objects and such. Blend can create stand alone apps or Silverlight apps. Data connections with it is supposed to be one of the strong points, but I have yet to start working with that aspect.

One possible advantage is that you can take an existing .NET app, which is using WPF and 'skin' the app to look better, but I am not sure about that yet.

Lots of movement out there on this and one area it is looking to be an excellent match is for streaming video.

Also take a search on www.codeproject.com as there was a recent Flash / Silverlight comparison done there by someone.

Paul-Jan · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject:

Ahhh, it's related to Silverlight! I was so put on the wrong foot by that marking speak in the initial post...

Thanks a lot for the information, guys. I personally kinda prefer C# to actionscript, so I might actually give it a shot at some point.

JWatte: Any idea what 3DS file formats are supported? Is there any need/room for specific support from DeleD? Very Happy