Downloading the Torque Documentation

#1 This has the downside of clobbering our servers. :(

#2 And the other downside of giving you a local copy which is always going to be out of date.

#3 About the clobbering... I can post a ziped version of the documentation..

Going out of date... that happens with everything.. my sdk will go out of date too.

For me this is usefull because I don't have a permanent Internet connection, and when I have it's limited or slow. So, this way I can work for weeks without the need to go online.

I think garage games should have an offline version of the documentation, that's always usefull.

#4 I agree with S

#5 Our biggest concern is preventing piracy. Prepackaged downloads for everything just scream "put me on a warez FTP!" :(

#6 I understand that, but wouldn't that happen with the Torque Engine itself?
That's the industry BIG problem..

#7 Yes but, you have to understand that without the docs the sourcecode is pretty much useless to anyone who is not a topnotch programmer. However with a full set of doxy docs, a decent programmer, could if so inclined create a brand new engine, that would function pretty much the same as TGE, and resell it or whatever without the need to even include GG in the credits or pay licensing fee's etc and so forth. This would essentially be stealing the hardwork of the community.

If I were GG I would implement one of those visual logins, that requires the user look at a picture of a set of numbers or words, and enter them into a form, before being allowed to recieve the cookie that allows you to view the page. Another alternative may be to track pages per minute viewed, and simply send 404 errors to browsers that hit an average of > 2-3 pages per minute within a given time frame.

Anyways, thats my 2c.

#8 I understand, but I think that's not the solution. If one want to make business changing and reselling the engine then he will pay $100 and have the docs and the source. Even with the visual login that guy would copy the docs page by page on the browser. Nothing would stop him.
I like GG and the Torque because it's good and affordable, and that's the solution in my opinion. There are plenty of open source engines out there, but again, this is good and affordable.

#9 We're exploring a lot of different options for docs. Trust us - the situation will definitely improve as time goes on. :)

#10 Hi All

i have just purshased the engine, and i am very new at this and i would love to have a D/L version of the docs, makes life easy.
And for a newbie going online and printing the docs off the site is pain stacking and time consuming.
There must be an easyer way?

#11 There is, but good things take time. Just be patient, we're working hard on these problems. :)

#12 :))))))))))))))

#13 Thanks Ben.

#14 Sorry to but in, jsut wanted to ask Sergio where you from?

#15 Offline docs would be quite useful for reading on the plane or train, where one has time to kill and no Internet connectivity.

#16 Hello Hugo, I'm from Portugal...

#17 Where did the "Official" TGE SDK Documentation go? The usual link http://www.garagegames.com/docs/tge/engine/

used to be much more detailed documentation which was not automatically generated by DOxygen. Anybody found the link to it?

-SJ

#18 Http://www.garagegames.com/docs/tge/index.php

Is that what your looking for Steve?

#19 No actually it was a link on that same page which is in the C++ Code Documentation section near the middle of that page called C++ Documentation:
http://www.garagegames.com/docs/tge/general/pt04.php

The link "full official documentation" at the top of that same page it would take you to another page that had another link (Torque Source Code Documentation) which used to take you to a page that looks strangely familiar to the link I have above. I remember much of the content from that link so I think I found it now.

Thanks.

-SJ

#20 The commands download only the main page for me. Any ideas?