   Good engine to use for a third person shooter
  Hey all,First timer to the site and just wanted to ask a quick question.  I have been working with programming for a couple of years off and on and have a ok understanding of C# and a little bit of C++. Is there a particular engine that I should try to use to create a 3rd person game?  I have a vision of a fast 3rd person shooter (devil may cry esque) that I would like to try to work on.  Any help would be great!   
  Really, any sufficiently flexible FPS game engine will be able to do behind-the-back or otherwise just as easily as it can do first-person. For your purposes (non-commercial, for learning) I'd recommend seeking out a free game engine, or even just doing a mod of an existing game. As I recall, the Quake 3 source has been released -- I haven't looked at it myself, but that might be a good way to go.Anyways, good luck!   ;  If you are going it alone I would recommend Torque. Its a pretty strong engine with alot of features. Its not free but for indy licenses its only $100. They give you a skeleton of a shooter and racing game to learn from. Its quite easy to use.   ;  you can modify the source engine to use 3rd person, i belive it takes approx. 100 lines of code, it can be found on the steam boards.   ;  Thanks I have torque but have just got started with it not to long ago... Anyways someone mentioned change 100 lines of code and to find it on the steam boards. Are the steam boards here or do you mean like the "SIERRA STEAM" ?   ;  if you really want to make things easy try game maker.. What i know they have both 2D and 3D engine to work with   ;  I many people seems to suggest FPS maker, ive never tried it or anything, but maybe you could look it up?   ;Quote:Original post by MadsGustafI many people seems to suggest FPS maker, ive never tried it or anything, but maybe you could look it up?I have never indeed tried it (Didn't even know its name was FPS maker) but somehow after working on RPG maker (Which also comes from the Game maker team i guess) i just find it boring when its far too easy creating a game. Its like a 7 year old can handle it which feels kinda sad. I dont really know any good engine for FPS 3D games but FPS maker might be good, i dont know.;  That FPS Maker can't do TPS. Does anyone know if Torque would be good for a non-action oriented third person game?   ;  UT2K4 is easy to mod and to get the camera into Third Person Mode it's as simple as setting a single varible to a different value.  Definately the engine i'd use if i were to make a third person shooter using an off the shelf engine.A lot more mod friendly than the mess that is HL2.   