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TGEA = T3D correct?

by Justin Elkins · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 10/07/2009 (1:23 pm) · 9 replies

Torque Game Engine Advanced is Torque 3D I am assuming correct? I know its a stupid question, I just wanted to be sure on the details. I bought the early adopters about 2.5 years ago and was making sure that I have the features I am seeing on the site or if mine is outdated. Thanks for entertaining my question :)
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Associate Scott Burns
GG Alumni
#1
10/07/2009 (1:48 pm)
Torque 3D is, essentially, the next version of TGEA. Though the improvements made to the toolset make it go far beyond simply being a TGEA 2.0. It is not a free update.

Torque 3D Owner Matt Huston
Atomic Banzai Games
#2
10/07/2009 (1:53 pm)
TGEA != T3D. T3D is its own product.

Torque Owner Justin Elkins
#3
10/07/2009 (3:36 pm)
Oh, thats a bummer :\ Is there a comparison on what I do not have with TGEA vs T3D? Thinking of starting to work with TGEA but dunno if its worth it to right now.

Torque Owner Justin Elkins
#4
10/07/2009 (4:53 pm)
Okay, I was thinking I could possibly start my project on TGEA and upgrade to T3D later on when I deem it necessary. How much would this affect my code if I were to upgrade?

Torque Owner Andy Rollins
ZDay Game
#5
10/07/2009 (5:18 pm)
As Scott mentions Torque 3D is really TGEA 2.0 so as you can imagine there are a lot of similarities between code... but also as Scott mentions Torque 3D is a HUGE upgrade from TGEA so there could also be a lot to change.

I know that's not too helpful but how much you have to change when you upgrade all depends if you've changed in TGEA the areas that are different in Torque 3D.

Torque Owner Justin Elkins
#6
10/07/2009 (5:32 pm)
I see. Possibly if I can get a basic prototype based on at least torquescript then I guess I may be able to justify the purchase. $700+ bucks is a ton of money for someone who may not even make any sort of cash from it at all ;)

Torque 3D Owner Ronny Bangsund
Torque Cheerleaders
#7
10/07/2009 (10:51 pm)
Here is the first of 30 blogs showing you what you're missing:
www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/15818

It's not a minor upgrade ;)

Torque Owner Mike Rowley
Mike Rowley
#8
10/07/2009 (11:15 pm)
T3D = tgea on steroids.

Associate Scott Burns
GG Alumni
#9
10/08/2009 (10:19 am)
As for how much of your code could be affected, well if you're still running the version from when you bought it then pretty much all of it. TGEA went through some pretty heavy changes just from 1.0 to it's current 1.8.1.