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by Dylan Kelly · in General Discussion · 04/04/2006 (3:14 pm) · 5 replies

I posted this a while back but wasn't that real. I got the money for Toruque 3D, but I don't know if I should buy it. I am 13 years old with little experiance on game making. I am wondering if I should buy it, or wait a while to get it. If I do, would I be able to understand it all? Well, thanks in advance.
-Dylan
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Torque Owner Ben Ewing
#1
04/04/2006 (3:42 pm)
Well, im 13 and own it.....once you get used to the script its pretty easy to do stuff.....
If you need help or something my email is bendgp@gmail.com (Im on MSN too).

BTW You dont need to own the Engine to script with it, buying the license only gives you acces to the C++ source code, yuo could mod of the demo, or the starter.ctf thing without the license

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#2
04/04/2006 (4:31 pm)
1. Download the demo and play with it. Work with it. See if it works for you. Ask questions on the forums. Get Visual Studio 2005 Express from microsoft and start learning C++ through online tutorials to get on your feet programming-wise.

Torque Owner Mark
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#3
04/04/2006 (5:28 pm)
13 is a young age. Sure the world editor and GUI is simple to use with it's interfaces, but the most complicated thing about Torque is programming. If you can program, you'll be in luck. If you can't, you better find one who can.

Torque Owner Steven Peterson
#4
04/04/2006 (6:22 pm)
Heh - flashbacks - I've been trying out "game engines" off the internet since I was about 13 (23 now, how time flies). In all those years, Torque is the first "real" engine i've played with and the only one I would whole-heartedly reccomend to anyone.

I can guarantee you won't be finishing a complete full featured game with Torque anytime soon. But if you want a fun on-going project to learn how programming works, and how to build a game then Torque is the best you can get. It will be a steep learning curve, as Torque is the REAL thing and doesn't pull punches, but it will help prepare you for building a game later in life, probably better than anything else.

To help with the C++ I would reccomend: Deittel & Deitel: C++: How to Program

This book got me through college, and covers all the C++ concepts you need for torque. Don't expect to get it all on the first read though, it's hard stuff!

Hope that helps

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#5
04/04/2006 (7:05 pm)
I would personally counter the Deitel reference as I find it to be one of the wholly worst organized books on C++ with the most attrocious editing I have seen in any book, regardless of topic. This is for the version before the current one, but the index was from the previous version and the content had shifted all over the book, making it useless. The information inside of it was VERY good and complete, but finding anything in the jumble was literally like guessing the face of a card after throwing them through a tree shredder. I'm having bad flashbacks. I have heard that it is more organized, but I had horrible experiencces with it in the past. Their workshops, however, are excellent from what I understand. They know their stuff. They just need an editor (or a better one).

I would recommend Ivort Horton's Beginning C++ and Michael Prata's ANSI C++ Primer Plus. Both are huge and rather complete...and also are well organized. The Horton book is an excellent kearning book for the language. It's not that great if you already know C or some C++. Okay, but not great since it is orriented to beginners.