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Virtools engine package at work

Posted Dec 12, 2006 at 9:50PM EST by QJ Staff

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Last week, we had a report about Virtools and how the package is actually helping developers. In case you don't have an idea what this engine is, Virtools PSP solution package combines 3D graphical and text scripting, GUI's, debug tools as well as API's.

The amazing thing about it is the drag-and-drop interface that provides developers a preview window of what they're doing, in real time. Well, we knew that it was quite complicated to explain back then and even now. Developing a game, after all, is no easy task. If it is, then the charm of the homebrew scene will be gone in an instant.

Anyway, to help you better understand why Virtools is a good dev tool, we're sharing with you this clip. It is a short video showing the visual programming of 3D games and the result played on the PSP. Lastly, we were wondering if you guys have any idea what upcoming game is depicted in the video.

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# Cool! — Guest 2006-12-12 22:59

Wow!

# Please.... — Guest 2006-12-12 23:05

Tell me this will be released to the public as a homebrew devkit

# great! — Guest 2006-12-12 23:09

when some dev's get hold of this and start releasing some stuff its gonna be GREAT!

# hehehe — -BlackShark- 2006-12-12 23:11

cant wait to get my hands on this

# awe — Guest 2006-12-12 23:17

very cool, I want to try this out.

# YEAH!!!! — yoshinatsu 2006-12-12 23:20

Oh, man... If all homebrew were like that...

Many good projects could be improved with this tool.

Also, they could AT LAST make a good homebrew FPS game (aside PSPDungeos) with Virtools like PSP-Unreal Tournament, PSP-QuakeIIIArena or PSPHalo. :)

# . — Guest 2006-12-12 23:23

All i have to say is WOW. if i was a developer, i would pay thousands for this. (yah right) but the QUALITY of those demo'd games is unreal. i can see fighting games, car games, RPG's!!!! being made with this.

Is this for commercial use only or is it gonna be for homebrewers? if it is commercial only, then its a matter of time before we get a pirated/leaked copy. and boy howdy, we will see some AMAZING homebrew games. most suck as is...cheap GFX anyways. but this would make the PSP open up wider than ever. imagine how many homebrewers will REMAKE popular games? it seems with these tools you could literally remake friggin MARIO 64 or even the first RESIDENT EVIL. i was in a crap mood and this for some reason just made me happy as shiz.

# What the?? — yoshinatsu 2006-12-12 23:28

The 3rd game's objects were... Killzone's???

Can they actually attach other games' objects and sprites into homebrew (not GBA ones like they do)???

# sweet — Guest 2006-12-12 23:34

Awesome, the demos look really promising.

# seems like it — rc_square24 2006-12-12 23:41

seems like its commercial

# ? — Guest 2006-12-12 23:55

u know wat wood be better than that..............................................

..................

...........

...........

.........

2.80 dg (hopefully)

# incredible — Guest 2006-12-13 00:11

Simple......incredible

# . — Guest 2006-12-13 00:16

Similar to Multimedia Fusion.

# about it — Guest 2006-12-13 00:25

heh i "found" virtools4 but apparently you need the official psp sdk to build the games.The first one was a demo included in the tutorials section of virtools

# how long do we have to w8 — Guest 2006-12-13 01:07

i have gone to their site and from wat i heav read this is geoing to be free... if i have this i promise i'm going to be a psp 3D developper so i can mke some deasent games (maybe AOTM 3D or something like that...no fps is much more fun) all the programs i will make i will post on qj dot net...thank you very much if this is going to be free virtools

# "flamerz=lamerz" — Guest 2006-12-13 01:18

its not that hard to develop a clip like that, put your psp on hold, play the video, mimic action>finger

# 3d developer — Guest 2006-12-13 01:26

To the post above me:

"i promise i'm going to be a psp 3D developper so i can mke some deasent games"

You might want to learn to spell before you become a 3d developer, bud.

And by the looks of the program, it's a bit harder to understand than "drag and drop".

# It's true — barbapapaz 2006-12-13 01:34

I work with this compagny and her product (not for the game industry) and all it's true!

you can see the official news at:

http://www.virtools.com/news/press_117.asp

Virtools is a dassault company ans it's not laught!!!

# indeed... — Guest 2006-12-13 01:45

...but the dev kit costs money. And wirtools does not come bundled with managed multiplayer connectivity. At least not in the base package.

Also, developing (as you can see from the video) is done not on a real psp but on the dev one (you can get a glimpse of the connection cable).

# found it — Guest 2006-12-13 01:51

well i have a copy of this after a few hours hunting and it looks pretty cool gonna need to spend a whole bunch of time playin with it without a tutorial to even start to build a game.................more time than i have

# 3d demo — Guest 2006-12-13 02:47

wow ... does anyone at all see the similarity between that flying ship demo and Dir en greys video Child Prey?

Dir en Grey = FTW

# psp for virtools — barbapapaz 2006-12-13 02:50

"Virtools dev" is an developement environment,it work with ressources called "building blocks(BB)" (you can create BB with virtools sdk), the result is a composition (*.cmo). This composition can be read with "virtools player", "virtools office"...

There are certainly a virtools player for PSP!!!

I don't know where virtools use the PSP sdk but it's logical that it's necessary to develloped game with "Virtools Dev" otherwise virtools is sworn enemy of sony!!!

nota bene: virtools = dassault and dassault is friendly with microsof bur microsoft and sony....

# Next Project.. — Lucky_Bastard 2006-12-13 02:58

Nice tool for everyone especially noobz.. simple and user

friendly GUI. i like that...

# why want a dg... — Guest 2006-12-13 03:23

i have a 2.80 myself... stop complaining be happy u dont have 2.81

2.80 has enoug things(at least for now)

# virtools — Guest 2006-12-13 03:27

the first game shown is one of the demo scenes that comes with virtools dev as an example. the second game i've never seen before, i'm assuming they made it for the GDC talk. the third one is a demo they'd been showing for the psp kit ever since they started.

virtools got bought by dassault (big 3d software company for aerospace/hardware) sometime in the last year, and since then have not said anything about the psp kit, though i did still see it at their trade show booth in august

the software isn't cheap (~9k), and you need a psp dev kit currently to use it

# how to — barbapapaz 2006-12-13 03:49

to use it the official psp sdk is require?

# little info i see — Guest 2006-12-13 04:32

If you look at the registration process you need to send your game-design docs - so I am not sure if you are allowed to buy a dev kit just for building up the competency.

Sony says that you need at least to burn several 10k discs - so its not for niche products with only a few hundred or thousand units.

So it looks like you need

- DEV

- PSP DEV extension

- code warrior (for custom BBs, Manager extensions? building the player?)

- a game design doc that fits Sony's criteria

- intention to produce at least several 10k units

- Sony PSP dev kit

- (several published games in the portfolio?)

which is a bit of a shame, because it is feasible for 1-3 people to make a reasonably interesting game concept in virtools

only game i saw in the virtools dev forums was http://www.twelvegames.com/crashdummy/ & http://www.twelvegames.com/crashdummy/PSP_BossLevel.wmv

# and more — Guest 2006-12-13 04:36

but it uses http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?nodeId=0127268507748218293031 by codewarrior as its back-end, and codewarrior uses the official psp-sdk as far as i can tell.

soooo.. yea, its an expensive toy at this point

# World War 2D — Guest 2006-12-13 05:00

Hey,

I'm using Virtools to produce this game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq1thGLpbKs

Hopefully we will get it on PSP too ;)

Comments are welcome.

# *****ed — dairladada 2006-12-13 05:54

This is *****ed up. This should not be authorized.

# devhook — Guest 2006-12-13 06:07

Will we need a low firmware and junk to run some eboot of the games that are produced by virtools? or will these games run on any firmware?

# Commerical Tool — Guest 2006-12-13 07:53

This is a high end, commercial tool for developers with the Dev kit.

This is not for homebrew development.

# so? — RaiderX 2006-12-13 11:08

it would make awesome homebrew! And nothing is stopping an inspired dev from purchasing virtools and making some killer homebrew with it!!

# commercial only i think — Guest 2006-12-13 11:18

i think it's for commercial use only!!!! :(:(:(

# Price? — Guest 2006-12-13 12:10

Do you think that the price of license for this tool will be in the range of the average home developer? The fact that you have to go through a process which requires the name of your company and game design first doesn't exactly it seem that it is within the reach of a home developer.

Not to mention it looks like you need the full PSP devkit and SDK to play/test the applications you create with it.

# . — Guest 2006-12-13 12:15

"most suck as is...cheap GFX anyways" - making homebrew games are hobbies for the devs and even the 'crappy looking ones' take hours/days to make.

But yeah this would be a cool thing for devs to use.

# FINALLY!! — Guest 2006-12-13 12:35

Yay!!! now I can use my higher end 3d gfx in your homebrew games guys!!! or thats how it looks at least..

# nice — Guest 2006-12-13 12:50

well i found the tools like many of u and i am a dev (not officially)...it is a little complicated...as i speak i am working on a 3d frogger. but im not even 5% done also i obtained the dev cable which youll need in order to put these files on ur psp (ebay). and lets just say its not that cheap but anyways...this really wont help us in downgraders or anything like that. But well start seeing more 3d homebrew

# I know that game! — Guest 2006-12-13 13:03

It's Online Chess Kingdoms from Konami

# ... — Guest 2006-12-13 13:29

What do the developers use to develope psp games? Is it something that is possible to be done by a small design team? If you can program for a pc, is there much of a transition to psp.

# ye — Guest 2006-12-13 13:37

yes, the devkit :(

# hmm — Guest 2006-12-13 15:06

I got this program, and i wanted to know how to i make it work on the PSP system? Is there a way i can export as an eboot? or is there a long a boring process before i make it usuable with the PSP?

# virtools — Guest 2006-12-13 15:34

its really difficult to use if your a noob, i have a copy and i'm lost. I will do some reading and play around with it a bit to see if I can come up with something.

# ? — Guest 2006-12-13 16:03

how did you guys get copies, and does it seem better than actually writing the code/

# Hot coffe mod anyone? — eruditejok3r 2006-12-13 16:26

Nice adult mod would be nice.

# that's why I never upgraded from 2.60 — Sr_Moska 2006-12-13 16:40

When I bought my used PSP it had 2.60 when it was just released and that was pretty sucky, but I never upgraded to 2.70

# no kidding — Sr_Moska 2006-12-13 16:50

you just did a torrent search and it instantly appears, ain't that hard

# The First game is... — Guest 2006-12-13 17:07

Iridon 3D? er....That GBA Launch game with the aliens and you were in a tunnel in the first level. The boss was a big reactor and you had to dodge oncoming trash to shoot the core. An old Classic....

Anyone Remember?

# . — Guest 2006-12-13 17:21

Yes, because all we need is more WW2 games.

Like there aren't enough.

# Virtool 4 for PSP — Guest 2006-12-13 18:43

Its already released and Cracked verision is available for download. Dont this its recommend to post here.

Here is the Press release: http://www.virtools.com/News/press_117.asp

# Virtual Tools 4 for PSP — Guest 2006-12-13 18:51

Any Dev's want this Software Please PM @ raahul124@yahoo.com. I hope the link wont be deleted soon

# not really — Guest 2006-12-13 19:01

multimedia fusion nor TGF can handle proper 3d graphics. would be better if they could though.

is this all drag+drop or is there some coding involved?

# p — FreeJ 2006-12-13 22:18

flamerz+lamerz

# WTH?! — Guest 2006-12-14 07:39

Why, why, why is everyone downloading this illegally when they have absolutely no idea what this is for and who it is for.

This for commercial developers you have the offical SN Systems Dev Kit and Dev Hardware to run it on.

This is NOT for people who have next to no idea on how to develop or people who are expecting to make full games in a day.

In short. This is not for home development. Period.

# ah just wonding if someone would please send me — Guest 2006-12-14 08:38

the download my aim is x0wnedyoux please send me it the C\2AC\

# NONE — Guest 2006-12-15 12:43

Holy crap that looks fricken' awesome. I want it.

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