As I said, this section will have links to and opinions about some freeware programs I use.
First one is Unity3D, love it and at the same time hate it with a passion. Obviously I’ve only used the free (old Indie) version of it. Currently using it for 2 projects, it’s is pretty lightweight but it’s easy to see why, graphics are not ‘next-gen’;
I hate that expression ‘next-gen’ wtf does that mean?
What was ‘next-gen’ 3 years ago is now the ‘Low’ setting of a video game…oh, wait…console people don’t have graphic options, so they will never know the difference between ‘Lowest’ and ‘Highest’ or even ‘Custom’ on a game, it’s stuck on ‘Low’. (Not much of a console fan-boy, am I?).
Back on track, at least for now it is not to be compared with UDK, at least on graphics.
But on a positive side it’s pretty easy to use, the scripting languages (UnityScript and C#) are relatively easy to learn and use. And Unity 3.0 looks promising, with Beäst and Umbra (Light mapping and object occlusion, respectively).
Link: http://unity3d.com/