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by Christopher Lee · in Torque 3D Beginner · 03/22/2010 (2:09 pm) · 2 replies

So I bought the Torque Game engine like an ancient troll so many years ago, but was less then thrilled with the awful documentation. Even today the best documentation was ripped from an appendix from a book about the engine and it was usually far more fruitful to just source code dive into the engine then to try and find documentation on anything. So with this awesome new addition, I saw that they seem to be saying there's plenty of great documentation for this engine. Here are my questions:

1. Please god tell me you're not just having another wiki where people cobble together some of what they know and calling it "Documentation"
2. Is it at all comprehensive?
3. If anyone has any links to backup it actually IS well documented. Please help me to cause I'd like to get this engine.
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Associate Scott Burns
GG Alumni
#1
03/22/2010 (3:31 pm)
All the current documentation can be viewed under Support->Documentation. Keep in mind what's there is still in progress so the screenshots in it may not reflect what's in the demo as it was built during the first round of Betas and is being updated to 1.1.

As I'm sure you saw in the other thread, there is a massive effort under way right now behind the scenes to bring the documentation up to the level where it should be.

Torque Owner Christopher Lee
#2
03/22/2010 (3:39 pm)
These efforts are all well and good, but I'm severely disappointed that a new game engine meant to be sold to developers wouldn't come with top notch, comprehensive documentation. For someone purchasing such a product this would be the end all necessary component to get started, and I'm a little wary that something jacked up to 1000$ price tag wouldn't have learned this in previous iterations...