Small Demos
by Ben Woodhead · in Torque Game Engine · 12/08/2003 (10:06 am) · 2 replies
Hello Everybody
I just wanted to ask if anybody has a small demo kicking around. Its really nice to see the engine used in a complete faction but its quite a bit to look at when you are first starting out.
Here are a few things I was thinking about:
1. Just a small set of scripts doing something simple like a menu or something.
2. A striped down version of the code.
What I have been thinking about doing is a step by step tutorial, not to say that I don't think the ones that are around are not nice (thank you all who have contributed docs and everything else for that matter).
All the tutorials seem start with moding and that is not the way my brain works. I want to start with code and then work out to the scripts and content.
Here is a basic layout of the tutorial (lets say pong its the hello world of video games).
1. Setup your project (starting with vs.net since thats what I use now, but then onto linux as well)
2. Basic includes that you are going to need from torque. Basically down to a main loop.
3. Then start with main.cs scripts, building guis. Basically get people to build everything they need themselves.
I am willing to write this document and since I am new to torque I am in a possition to understand what its like to start i figured I should do this to save someone else figuring it out for themselves.
The only problem is that I don't have a small example to start with and torque only has the big demos.
Ben
I just wanted to ask if anybody has a small demo kicking around. Its really nice to see the engine used in a complete faction but its quite a bit to look at when you are first starting out.
Here are a few things I was thinking about:
1. Just a small set of scripts doing something simple like a menu or something.
2. A striped down version of the code.
What I have been thinking about doing is a step by step tutorial, not to say that I don't think the ones that are around are not nice (thank you all who have contributed docs and everything else for that matter).
All the tutorials seem start with moding and that is not the way my brain works. I want to start with code and then work out to the scripts and content.
Here is a basic layout of the tutorial (lets say pong its the hello world of video games).
1. Setup your project (starting with vs.net since thats what I use now, but then onto linux as well)
2. Basic includes that you are going to need from torque. Basically down to a main loop.
3. Then start with main.cs scripts, building guis. Basically get people to build everything they need themselves.
I am willing to write this document and since I am new to torque I am in a possition to understand what its like to start i figured I should do this to save someone else figuring it out for themselves.
The only problem is that I don't have a small example to start with and torque only has the big demos.
Ben
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Thanks for the responce, if I get anywere with it I will diffinately contribute it. Its good to hear you guys are already working on it. Is there any place that I can find the work in progress perhaps I can contibute directly.
Ben
12/08/2003 (12:34 pm)
Hey Alex, Thanks for the responce, if I get anywere with it I will diffinately contribute it. Its good to hear you guys are already working on it. Is there any place that I can find the work in progress perhaps I can contibute directly.
Ben
Torque Owner Alex Swanson
We are working on just such a project. We realized that the Torque Demo is a bit much for beginning users, and that we also need a simple example that people can work from like we had before 1.2
If you do want to contribute any writing to the document, that would be great. We are collecting a lot of the good documentation and tutorials from the site, but there are still a lot of holes to fill in and many things that need to be updated. I will email you, we can exchange a few ideas.