[Blitz3D is 10 years old!]

I don't know about you guys but in the circle of people I run around with, We'll buy a video card before we pass up a kick arse game. Seriously, you can build a very decent gaming computer for 1200.00. Whats that, odd jobs for six months, bam! you got a new computer! I really don't feel backward compatibility is as big a deal as everyone thinks. If the game is good enough, people will buy the horsepower to make it work. Besides, if you so broke you can't upgrade your video card, you probably should be looking for a job instead of playing video games LOL.

[File Formats]

I have actually found that page (and all those icons) as totally misleading.

 

Unless current version have changed (in which case I will stand corrected), with regards to models, LE only imports .gmf. All the other formats need converting beforehand. The same goes for image formats, with .dds. Most people I know have bought an external piece of software (UU3D) to handle this conversion process.

 

The website graphics says it import from any modelling package on the planet (or words similar)... which is true, if you have converted it!

 

Like I said, things may have changed, in which case a newer user will notify.

 

 

I have to agree with this, at first glance those icons would indicate to any reasonable person that LE2 natively supports all of these formats. Low and behold I buy the engine and find out I need to convert all these file types to LE specific formats. Not a big deal really but Yes! it is misleading.