Best approach for porting from T2d Alpha to TGB 1.1?
by Christopher Gu · in Torque Game Builder · 07/25/2006 (3:19 pm) · 2 replies
Oops, I initially posted this in the wrong forum, here goes:
Hey guys,
Not sure how many of you remember me...but I started a game last May/June using the T2D alpha. I wrote about 9000 lines of code, only to realize that the engine was too unstable for our uses. In the meantime, my business partner and I got impatient and moved onto a different engine in order to do a new game. Well, the new game is out and selling now. You can see it here:
www.bigfishgames.com/downloads/babaspuzzle/index.html
Anyhow, now that 1.1 is out, we decided to go back and rework our original game. I went through the documentation, as well as the tutorials, and it seems that a LOT has changed. Mostly, I am dismayed at the IDE-centric nature of the tutorials :( I really wish there was a document detailing how one can port their old Torque code over to the new engine.
Does anyone have any experience with porting a large T2D alpha project over to TGB? Are there any pitfalls of which I should be aware of? Should I even bother with my old code?
Hey guys,
Not sure how many of you remember me...but I started a game last May/June using the T2D alpha. I wrote about 9000 lines of code, only to realize that the engine was too unstable for our uses. In the meantime, my business partner and I got impatient and moved onto a different engine in order to do a new game. Well, the new game is out and selling now. You can see it here:
www.bigfishgames.com/downloads/babaspuzzle/index.html
Anyhow, now that 1.1 is out, we decided to go back and rework our original game. I went through the documentation, as well as the tutorials, and it seems that a LOT has changed. Mostly, I am dismayed at the IDE-centric nature of the tutorials :( I really wish there was a document detailing how one can port their old Torque code over to the new engine.
Does anyone have any experience with porting a large T2D alpha project over to TGB? Are there any pitfalls of which I should be aware of? Should I even bother with my old code?
Torque Owner Ricky Taylor
Well, the main change is the naming conventions t2d -> tgb.
I cant think of anything else not being compatible, mostly functionality has been added and it would probably be possible to optimize your code now.
The engine has had a big re-vamp, TGE 1.3 -> TGE 1.4 engine. So, some of the GUI stuff may not work, etc.
Try it, thats what I say.