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Cannot Save Settings And are you getting any console errors at all? Have you put a breakpoint (again, using Torsion) o... read more 02/24/2008 (8:35 pm)
Cannot Save Settings Issac, how do you know that the file isn't being loaded? Have you used Torsion to help debug your ex... read more 02/24/2008 (11:40 am)
Delay a For Loop You can't delay the loop itself (even if you could, you'd be stalling your [b]entire[/b] game, not j... read more 02/23/2008 (10:26 am)
Juggernaut/Torque2 Interiors "Polysoup" is what Max/Maya exports--effectively, dts shapes with no restrictions or requirements on... read more 02/23/2008 (7:21 am)
1.5 1.6 1.7 - Camera Jitter @Ken: You should already have an ::onUpdate() call for objects that receive ticks that is designed t... read more 02/22/2008 (10:33 am)
Issue with GettingStarted.pdf Steve is correct, single quotes and double quotes mean two different things in TorqueScript: --do... read more 02/22/2008 (7:22 am)
New Executables? Yes, check the file timestamp on your TorqueDemo.exe (or what you've changed it to, if you have), an... read more 02/22/2008 (6:45 am)
Return" in TorqueScript There are a couple of very basic "starter articles" on general programming principles and practices ... read more 02/22/2008 (6:43 am)
Another Request for Jaimi [quote] What is the issue that you see with "snap to grid"? Would an "Align faces" plugin work OK? ... read more 02/21/2008 (12:48 pm)
1.5 1.6 1.7 - Camera Jitter Melv, I just sent an email to your gmail account (profile).... read more 02/21/2008 (11:46 am)
What all do you get when you license Torque? Finally, you must have a purchased license to be able to publish games with the engine.... read more 02/21/2008 (9:54 am)
3D Torque X [quote] I'm pretty certain it's not in QA since the port just _recently_ started. [/quote] Davi... read more 02/19/2008 (4:38 pm)
Posting engine code changes as part of a resource? That would probably have made good sense, but assuming we're only talking a bit of code, and/or it's... read more 02/19/2008 (9:23 am)
Posting engine code changes as part of a resource? Resources are normally restricted to owners of a particular product when they are approved. It sound... read more 02/19/2008 (8:23 am)
Wiki Entry - Demo Recording It's a stream of Events, nothing more, nothing less. I personally haven't ever looked at the seriali... read more 02/18/2008 (12:50 pm)
Game Tutorials Source Code? Most of the tutorials contain the graphics in the tutorials themselves--as they explain, drag the im... read more 02/17/2008 (1:18 am)
Running out of object id numbers [quote] Additional note: The documentation says that schedule takes as its second arguments an "obj... read more 02/17/2008 (12:05 am)
AVS Error - No way around it... Actually, it's a security feature to keep people from stealing your credit card information and maki... read more 02/16/2008 (8:34 pm)
A possible solution for real time networking TGE's networking requires the ability to program in C++ (for all but the basic things that are inclu... read more 02/15/2008 (9:08 pm)
Wiki Entry - Demo Recording Honestly, it depends on your energy, willingness to learn, and experience. What you want to do is... read more 02/15/2008 (5:11 pm)
How is latency approached when dev a game? Check out the white papers written by Mark Frohnmayer and Tim Gift ot [url=http://opentnl.sourceforg... read more 02/15/2008 (5:05 pm)
My first rant of 2008 I'll retract my statement about retroactive stuff--that's what I get for posting quickly and not thi... read more 02/15/2008 (4:58 pm)
Wiki Entry - Demo Recording Recordings are not designed for anything except for helping you find crashes--and by definition a cr... read more 02/15/2008 (3:58 pm)
My first rant of 2008 [quote] that now has a EULA which gives Garage Games the right to change the licensing structure at... read more 02/15/2008 (3:52 pm)
How to compile game w/o editor? Good to hear Amaranthia :) Been playing around with it a lot recently myself (prepping for an upc... read more 02/14/2008 (11:21 am)
Wiki Entry - Demo Recording You would only see what occurred on the client that initiated the recording. If objects are within n... read more 02/13/2008 (12:51 pm)
Wiki Entry - Demo Recording The "recording" system built into Torque has nothing to do with video, demos, or anything along thos... read more 02/12/2008 (7:41 pm)
Running out of object id numbers As Stefan suggested, particles themselves are client side only--they are never networked. Orion's... read more 02/12/2008 (7:36 pm)
Torque 2 Tranparent Development It's holding up the TD portion--they've been working solidly on the engine since before we announced... read more 02/11/2008 (5:17 pm)
Screenshot cannot write to directory in Vista Interesting--I checked that myself before I asked, and didn't have one, so unsure :) The only oth... read more 02/11/2008 (12:32 pm)
Screenshot cannot write to directory in Vista Have you tried creating a screenshots folder?... read more 02/11/2008 (11:19 am)
Torque 2 Tranparent Development Heh..taking that as a compliment, [i]I think[/i]. The short version is: it's next on the major we... read more 02/11/2008 (10:58 am)
Central server and multiple clients The biggest core issue regarding real time networking in my [b]personal[/b] opinion (other devs at G... read more 02/11/2008 (10:55 am)
C++ call console functions? @Orion: funny--I often wish we had someone assigned to collect and maintain your utility functions b... read more 02/11/2008 (10:50 am)
How to compile game w/o editor? It's definitely an integrated process--here's my [i]general[/i] workflow: --prototype out a basic... read more 02/11/2008 (10:47 am)
Torque 2 Tranparent Development It's not happened yet. One of the key features of being able to communicate much more successfull... read more 02/11/2008 (10:37 am)
Central server and multiple clients Honestly I didn't mean to put down your work at all--I just wanted to try to enforce that "event bas... read more 02/11/2008 (9:55 am)
C++ call console functions? This might help to clear things up, so bear with me while I set up some terms and use cases: [b]S... read more 02/11/2008 (9:52 am)
Central server and multiple clients Heh. Not trying to play down your accomplishments in any way, but you can do everything you just did... read more 02/11/2008 (9:21 am)
A possible solution for real time networking If not the same, very close. I should be more specific: NetObject in TGB needs to be validated for g... read more 02/10/2008 (9:20 pm)
A possible solution for real time networking Heh...glad to see you spent a bit of time giving it a go :) I tend to come back to this a lot, bu... read more 02/10/2008 (8:21 pm)
How to compile game w/o editor? To be fully honest, I do almost all learning prototypes (hehe..keeping up with all of our engines al... read more 02/10/2008 (8:09 pm)
How to compile game w/o editor? I can't agree more on learning how to use Torsion effectively. Personally, I never [b]ever[/b] use t... read more 02/10/2008 (1:17 pm)
Mapping string" warnings/errors slow the game You are still focusing on very much the wrong thing, hehe. This is not mapping Kork the character, t... read more 02/10/2008 (9:44 am)
How to stop Terrain Blocks from repeating Or you could set: [code] tile = "0"; [/code] In your mission file for the terrain...... read more 02/09/2008 (9:31 pm)