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T. John Laird's Forum Posts

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Torque 3D Show Off Thread! Dosen't even compare with anything I've already seen on this thread, but here is something I was abl... read more 12/15/2009 (10:56 pm)
Any video tutorials for torque 3d? A video tutorial on how to use L3DT with T3D would be nice. There are written tutorials on it (L3DT ... read more 12/15/2009 (1:58 pm)
Before I buy... Thanks for the info. I went ahead a bought it. So far first impressions are very positive. It is lig... read more 12/11/2009 (8:05 am)
Free Speech Allowed? Garage Games pays the server fees for the message board and the website, so what do you expect? The ... read more 11/06/2009 (11:42 am)
Headshots Just bear in mind that the vital area in the head is a little less than half of it's size. Shooting ... read more 11/04/2009 (12:06 pm)
Newbie questions You could use a utility like Molebox to do the job. If you are really paranoid you could also hide f... read more 11/04/2009 (11:57 am)
Medieval Combat ^The tricky part would be getting realistic animation for sword/knife/axe fighting working. It would... read more 11/03/2009 (11:15 am)
Anyone else use Deled? Yeah I have no problem with navigation. I don't even use a mouse. I've been using a laptop touch pad... read more 11/03/2009 (9:27 am)
The Creative Side of Game Design - Questions Start by teaching yourself c++ and 3d modeling in your spare time. Download a copy of Visual Studio ... read more 11/02/2009 (8:01 am)
Medieval Combat If you gave the game and storyline a horror bent it would make the game less generic. Think Ravenlof... read more 11/01/2009 (7:59 pm)
T3D Artist Version Thanks. :) I just wanted to make sure it was really on the way.... read more 10/29/2009 (10:56 am)
Creating a Team andrew...you'll get a much better reception if you can post some of the artwork you have done in the... read more 10/23/2009 (1:13 pm)
Destructible terrain? You could fake it by making a depression in the terrain and then putting a static shape in place to ... read more 10/23/2009 (1:04 pm)
T3D Documnetation is incomplete/buggy You charge $1000 for a game engine and release it before the documentation is complete...I'm still c... read more 10/18/2009 (12:48 am)
Please Help Me Normall mapping There is no way to add a normal map to a brush face using Constructor (at least out of the box). The... read more 02/03/2008 (4:24 pm)
WanPing City Gate Damn thats a piece of art. How did you get the grass to look so realistic?... read more 02/02/2008 (11:17 am)
Garage Games & OpenGL Pat Wilson, If its that easy then why don't you get off your ass, do what Garage Games promised, ... read more 01/31/2008 (1:12 pm)
Vista and constructor I had to turn off User Account Control and Aero to really get anything done on Vista...but otherwise... read more 01/31/2008 (12:50 pm)
Creating Objects? I'll assume you're talking about modeling/level editing and not coding. Torque uses two formats: ".d... read more 01/27/2008 (6:28 pm)
Best Resource Book for 1.5.2 Second edition of 3D Game Programming All-in-One is outdated also (but it has more material than the... read more 01/27/2008 (11:39 am)
TGEA VS other Engines Terathon comes out with updates for C4 once a month...I wouldn't call that old technology. I tried t... read more 01/27/2008 (11:28 am)
Crashing on Save Constructor occasionally crashes on save with Windows to...at least on my machine. It saves it befor... read more 01/27/2008 (11:18 am)
Milkshape texturnig problem How does the DTS show up in Torque Show Tool Pro? Did you test it with that before you dropped the m... read more 01/24/2008 (5:42 pm)
Constructor 1.0.4 for Windows Thanks for the update.... read more 01/24/2008 (11:39 am)
Tutorials. Thanks, got it working. :)... read more 01/24/2008 (9:42 am)
Tutorials. Josiah, sorry, I meant the light. What you have in your tutorial is an omnilight. What I wanted to s... read more 01/23/2008 (1:59 pm)
Bump mapping objects Modify the engine :)... read more 01/21/2008 (11:17 am)
Torus Plugin Why on earth don't you just use a static shape? Constructor sucks with curves.... read more 01/21/2008 (11:06 am)
Tutorials. Show me how to make a spotlight in constructor.... read more 01/21/2008 (10:59 am)
Free Genetica Texture Packs I'll use it. Thanks.... read more 01/08/2008 (7:34 am)
Tutorials There are some video tutorials but you'll have to pay for them. http://www.garagegames.com/mg/sna... read more 01/07/2008 (11:38 am)
Constructor 1.0.3 Issue List One bug that annoys me is that I cannot seem to undo modifications (i.e undo a subtract, knife,etc.)... read more 12/29/2007 (5:01 pm)
Will Constructor be fished or droped -- ? If you are not going to release the source code then how about releasing some documentation. There a... read more 12/19/2007 (8:07 pm)
Help on placing light entities? I have the same question...I have a model of a florescant bulb that I imported into constructor. Is ... read more 12/16/2007 (10:25 pm)
Portals and Sunlight I seem to have gotten the portals to work. Having to overlap the portal brushes kind of bothers me t... read more 12/16/2007 (10:21 pm)
Blender M4 Nice low poly model...but where are you are going to eject the brass? There is no opening on the rig... read more 12/14/2007 (4:47 pm)
I Need a Good Modeling Program for Beginners Bite the bullet and get milkshape. It's got a reasonably active message board to answer questions on... read more 12/12/2007 (9:30 am)
Need help with mirror entities I didn't think of that. I'll give it a try. Thanks for clearing that up, and for the fast response.... read more 12/12/2007 (9:15 am)
Constructor texturing. Make the building in constructor. Then make the individual models (doors, soda machines, cash regist... read more 12/10/2007 (11:55 am)
Tge Or Tgea Start with TGE, see if you like the the way Torque does things, and then if you want to move on, get... read more 12/09/2007 (12:50 pm)
Portals and Sunlight Thanks for the help. I have an arched doorway too...so I'll let you know how it turns out.... read more 12/05/2007 (11:05 am)
Texture Pack Recommendations Has anyone tried Arrowway Textures? [url]http://www.arroway.de/textures/en/index.html[/url]... read more 12/03/2007 (12:22 pm)
Portals and Sunlight Anyone?... read more 12/01/2007 (5:37 pm)
What's the best and cheapest text editor/programming editor? Windows Notepad will work just fine if you are looking for something cheap. :) I am using Torsion th... read more 12/01/2007 (10:22 am)
Where do I get complete reference for TORQUE ROFLMAO...TDN is not a complete reference at all.... read more 11/30/2007 (8:53 pm)
Need Help w/ Waterblock Thanks. I played around with the specular color and the top water texture and both approaches worked... read more 10/30/2007 (11:18 am)