Discreet introduced today at the Game Developers Conference, Gmax, the company’s licenseable game development platform and free consumer game-content editor based on tools found in 3DS Max. Development and consumer versions of Gmax are expected to be available late summer 2001. Microsoft will reportedly be distributing Gmax with their new Flight Simulator 2002 which is scheduled to be released this fall.
In related news, Discreet said today that it had reached a sponsorship agreement with Id Software to sponsor a new competition at this year’s QuakeCon—the “gmax speed- mapping challenge”—more details to be provided at www.quakecon.org.
