Estimated Release of LE3?

[Chiblue]

After reading the posts about what will be in LE3, I am intrigued, and looking forward to it. Is there any idea of a release date or are we looking at 3month, 6months 1 year?

 

I ask becuase my project uses a dedicated server, and I have started working on a process to load a scene and get raycast information from it for the AI collision control, path finding and line of sight... this said if LE3 has the ability to run the engine without rendering to the screen this becomes a pointless exercise.

 

Thanks...

[Game Producer]

I asked same one month back and got "6+ months" for LE 3.0 and "more for 3.1". So, In my books that means possibly year 2011 for LE 3. But as far as I know, there's no fixed deadline. It's feature oriented project: certain features needs to be ready before LE 3.0 goes out.

 

What comes to "run without rendering", I guess you can do that already in LE2 and don't see why it couldn't happen in LE3, just skip calling "renderSomething" stuff.

[Raz]

Would purchasing LE 2.4 at this point give me a discount when LE 3 comes out? Also, what is the estimated price of 3.0?

 

Thanks.

[Josh]

Would purchasing LE 2.4 at this point give me a discount when LE 3 comes out?

 

Thanks.

Yes

 

Also, what is the estimated price of 3.0?

Unknown. It will partly be determined by exactly how much I can get done for the initial release.