3D Biblical World

Uploaded a sample concept screenshot link. Me and my Graphic Designer is working on a look and feel, so please bare with the bad design. :)
 
Hi guys. A slight problem. XNA won't work too well with MySQL. Because I'd like to keep the app open source, I get the idea that I'll have to move far way from anything regarding .Net. (I might be wrong too).

The scary idea is that there are few good Open Source games, so I recon that there aren't many good Game Studios..

What to do, what to do...
 
foozball3000 said:
Hi guys. A slight problem. XNA won't work too well with MySQL. Because I'd like to keep the app open source, I get the idea that I'll have to move far way from anything regarding .Net. (I might be wrong too).

The scary idea is that there are few good Open Source games, so I recon that there aren't many good Game Studios..

What to do, what to do...
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Does the educational tool have to be fully 3D? Why not use a Google Maps API to build a website for the navigation and then a 3D model plugin for the buildings etc?
 
Fudzy said:
Does the educational tool have to be fully 3D? Why not use a Google Maps API to build a website for the navigation and then a 3D model plugin for the buildings etc?
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Needs to be, probably not. But I want to encourage exploring that world. So, an interface where you can pan, rotate, and zoom like you would in a game, will be a good route to go. Keep in mind that I need the application to function without internet connection as well.
 
foozball3000 said:
Hi guys. A slight problem. XNA won't work too well with MySQL. Because I'd like to keep the app open source, I get the idea that I'll have to move far way from anything regarding .Net. (I might be wrong too).

The scary idea is that there are few good Open Source games, so I recon that there aren't many good Game Studios..

What to do, what to do...
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Why won't it work well with MySQL? XNA is just another library of .NET code and you can mix it in with the rest of the libraries. It should work just as well as any web forms, MVC, Silverlight, windows forms, WPF or command line applications you can build in .NET. Are you sure you have the correct drivers and adapters for MySQL for the version of .NET that you're using?

Also, why not consider using SQLite for this application? It would make deploying the project much easier, since the users won't have to worry about installing and configuring a database engine beforehand. Since the audience of this application will arguably be predominantly non-technical people, ease of deployment should be a prime concern from the beginning.
 
FarligOpptreden said:
Why won't it work well with MySQL? XNA is just another library of .NET code and you can mix it in with the rest of the libraries. It should work just as well as any web forms, MVC, Silverlight, windows forms, WPF or command line applications you can build in .NET. Are you sure you have the correct drivers and adapters for MySQL for the version of .NET that you're using?

Also, why not consider using SQLite for this application? It would make deploying the project much easier, since the users won't have to worry about installing and configuring a database engine beforehand. Since the audience of this application will arguably be predominantly non-technical people, ease of deployment should be a prime concern from the beginning.
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I'll have to go and check what the limitations of SQLlite is. The idea is that you just have the one application, so the db must be imbedded... keeping it simple. :)
 
foozball3000 said:
I'll have to go and check what the limitations of SQLlite is. The idea is that you just have the one application, so the db must be imbedded... keeping it simple. :)
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...then SQLite would be ideal for that. I think for this application there won't be any limitations in using SQLite. All Android apps use SQLite, so you can too! :p
 
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