Any tutorials yet?

#1 For what it's worth, I think the TankBuster Sample provides a more complete starting point since it shows how to use templates without making the environment too complex. I'm using this as my starting point and stripping out all the TB stuff. It might be worth while providing this as part of the next release.

#2 They have a stripped down version called 'basic game' or some such which just has the GG logo which you move across the screen.

#3 I realize that, but the structure of the basic demo is too siplified and doesn't really show you how to start doing things. I think although the TankBuster is more sophisticated than a basic demo, it's not by much, and it's easy to strip the TB specific stuff out and still be left with a pretty good framework to start with, IMHO.

#4 Tutorials would be nice to have.... the starter kits are good but i prefer to learn things in step by step mode rather than disecting apps. Especially since TGBX is not extremly intuitive once you get past the basic adding new materials and animations and a few more steps.

#5 Hey guys. Tutorials are definitely something we want and will be working on for final release. Don't know if they'll be as nice as we'd like, but they should help. It's important to us to communicate our vision of how things work together in TorqueX and tutorials are the best way to do this.

In the meantime, as people gain more experience they might want to put together their own tutorials and share with the community. Every engine is different, and the best way to do things in TorqueX isn't always the same as TGB and vice versa, but we hope that as people learn about TorqueX and share their knowledge they'll start to see the power of some of the unique ingredients we are providing them.

#6 How about starting a list of 'we want this tutorial'?

1) What the hell is a Torque Component any way? (I might have time to write this one late Jan if no on else gets around to it)

2) How to tie movement to a material.

3) How to work with sound

#7 A step by step set of tutorials that build on each other and result in a very simple game would be ideal.

ie

Tutorial 1: creating a project
Tutorial 2: adding a player, moving it around, making it shoot (or whatever)
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.
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and so on until you end up with something like TankBuster or even simpler.

#8 Im working on some basic TorqueX tutorials and TorqueX Games tutorials at www.torquexengine.com Vote to see what game tutorial you want to see.

#9 A new tutorial is up.

#10 Come onnnn SpaceInvadersTXE!

#11 Just as a side not Thanks for your work there Mathew, its a lot of work to create toturials and I just wanted to throw you some Kudos!

#12 If anyone wants to create a tutorial, I'll test it and if it works, definately host it on my website as an un-official tutorial..

you can e-mail me at info@modernmoviei.com

or regan.bill@gmail.com

#13 That URL cracks me up. ;)

Great work, Matthew.
Keep it up!