Would Torque 3d be a good engine to start with?
by Brandon Boyd · in General Discussion · 09/11/2011 (9:02 am) · 1 replies
Im looking for a game engine to make a first person Adventure game kinda like Amnesia. I don't have much experience in coding. Is this engine easy to use? Learn? or if its for a beginner if it not for a beginner what would you recommend?
Thank You,
Brandon
Thank You,
Brandon
Torque 3D Owner Ronny Bangsund
Torque Cheerleaders
You'll need custom code in any 3D engine to make it anything but a shooter. Especially anything which uses physics to some extent. The engine itself is easy to use, but as with any 3D engine you will need to learn at least the script language well to make major changes to how it plays.
I don't know of any "build your own first-person adventure for beginners" engines. But with the help of the documentation and anything pre-built on TDN you should be able to build what you want. Steve Acaster has some great tutorials, and there are many resources you can use to help in the building. Nathan Martin has been working on some useful new GUI elements, for instance.
You'll probably need Visual Studio of some description eventually. You can't get by without any programming, but Steve claims he knows nothing and still manages :)