Book Version vs TGE
by Jack McMackin · in Torque Game Engine · 07/28/2005 (1:30 pm) · 7 replies
Can someone please help me with the differences between the book version of torque and what is commonly referred to here as TGE?
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#2
07/28/2005 (2:09 pm)
Ok, thanks,however, I was hoping for a more detaile list of features or uses.
#3
With source code, you can modify engine features directly to suit your needs.
Additionally, if you purchase a license for Torque, you'll gain access to restrcted sections of the site which offer many predefined resources to help you modify the engine, forums where you can pick the brains of some of our resident 3D gurus (including Garage Games staff members) and so forth.
If you mean "game" features, well, there are improvmenets, modifications and new features that get incorporated into the core engine as time passes. As a license holder, you have access to these, as a non-license holder with only the book version at your disposal, what you have is all it will ever be.
~ Hope that clarifies.
07/28/2005 (2:13 pm)
With the book version, you only have access to the scripting side of things.With source code, you can modify engine features directly to suit your needs.
Additionally, if you purchase a license for Torque, you'll gain access to restrcted sections of the site which offer many predefined resources to help you modify the engine, forums where you can pick the brains of some of our resident 3D gurus (including Garage Games staff members) and so forth.
If you mean "game" features, well, there are improvmenets, modifications and new features that get incorporated into the core engine as time passes. As a license holder, you have access to these, as a non-license holder with only the book version at your disposal, what you have is all it will ever be.
~ Hope that clarifies.
#4
07/28/2005 (2:30 pm)
Thank you.
#6
My Biggest problem with torque and any and all docs (including this book) they gloss over the simple structure of the thing. For instance... I didnt know til just now thru experimentation that main.cs is the first file exec'ed. And furthermore I have VC6 and I have loaded the .dsw but I havent got a clue as to how when I'm done with a demo or game how I am sposed to recompile a version WITHOUT all those editors built into it(terrain,mission,etcc...). I swear, Right now my main goal is to just use this SDK to get a completely BLANK template of my own NOT MODDING THE STARTER.FPS TO DEATH. I dunno, I prefer to start from the ground up. It seems all the docs do is shove my face further into premade stuff.
Anyhows My Problem is I'm doing chapter2 and im trying to do it without using tge but torquedemo.exe doesnt seem to be able to even do the helloworld.cs
09/22/2005 (11:39 am)
Hey Im having a problem with this too. I HAVE a license. I also have the book. Where it is asking for tge.exe I use torquedemo.exe.My Biggest problem with torque and any and all docs (including this book) they gloss over the simple structure of the thing. For instance... I didnt know til just now thru experimentation that main.cs is the first file exec'ed. And furthermore I have VC6 and I have loaded the .dsw but I havent got a clue as to how when I'm done with a demo or game how I am sposed to recompile a version WITHOUT all those editors built into it(terrain,mission,etcc...). I swear, Right now my main goal is to just use this SDK to get a completely BLANK template of my own NOT MODDING THE STARTER.FPS TO DEATH. I dunno, I prefer to start from the ground up. It seems all the docs do is shove my face further into premade stuff.
Anyhows My Problem is I'm doing chapter2 and im trying to do it without using tge but torquedemo.exe doesnt seem to be able to even do the helloworld.cs
#7
Besides if you install the package from the CD from the book, it places everything in a folder neatly for you to access while going through the book and has all the resources the book refers to.
-LJR
09/22/2005 (9:13 pm)
I got the 1st book and TGE within the same weekend. Its best to install both versions of the Torque Engine in seperate folders on your computer. The book version is a little dated I think version 1.2 and the one for download now is TGE 1.3, so a little difference there.Besides if you install the package from the CD from the book, it places everything in a folder neatly for you to access while going through the book and has all the resources the book refers to.
-LJR
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