Hi, I''m going to start some kind of bycicle race game. We are a group of 5 and have to decide on a 3d engine (opengl, dx). things look like dx at the moment, but what I''d like to know is, which IDE is best for game development with c/c++? is it ok to use visual studio 6.0 with c++, or should we better take visual studio .net and do our c++ things there? greets, barney

thx a lot,

let''s see, what Vstudio6 will bring

greets,
barney

I really like MSVC 6. Been using it for a while now, and I enjoy the easy project organization and configurations. It also has some neat little switches for its compiler and linker, but those may be standard, I don''t know. However, it IS a Microsoft product, and as such, it will explode killing everyone inside from time to time. Very rarely, the compiler will write random garbage and otherwise mangle large parts of your source code, right before it automatically saves itself. This happens very rarely, so I wouldn''t let it scare me off. Backup often, or use SourceSafe or something.