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by kymaene · in Torque Game Engine · 02/20/2007 (11:58 am) · 6 replies

I apologize in advance if this is posted in an incorrect forum; however, i dont really see any other forum for it.

recently i downloaded the trial for the Torsion IDE. i'm having a lot of trouble getting it to work. so my question to those of you who have it:

how does it compare to Codeweaver? the latest build of codeweaver seems to work just fine (and it's free); so what does Torsion give me that codeweaver doesnt have that is worth the money?

sorry to sound cheap but these tools tend to add up ...

thank you for your time.
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    Employee Michael Perry
    ZombieShortbus
    #1
    02/20/2007 (12:04 pm)
    I've noticed that, overall, Torsion is faster in its operations and load time. I found it much easier to set up a project and debug scripts in Torsion as well.

    I work side by side with another programmer, and he was using Codeweaver until he saw how easy it was for me to debug script, as well as update the "intellisense" for new ConsoleMethods and ConsoleFunctions I wrote in C++.

    The one thing that bothers me about Codeweaver that Torsion doesn't do, is when I want to view a single script file, Codeweaver has to go through the whole song and dance of creating a blank/new project, which it later bothers me with the question of "Saving" it when I'm done viewing the file: even if I don't modify it.

    I've actually never used a script IDE as straight forward and powerful as Torsion.

    What problems are you having?

    Torque Owner kymaene
    #2
    02/20/2007 (12:33 pm)
    I cant get the debugger to work. i believe i followed the instructions; however, when i debug, all it does is hang. i'm sure i did something wrong but i cant seem to find what it is, and the help file that comes with the demo isnt exactly jam-packed with information.

    Employee Michael Perry
    ZombieShortbus
    #3
    02/20/2007 (12:38 pm)
    Where are you placing your breakpoint? Also, how are you launching your game? Is it fullscreened on a single monitor?

    Torque Owner kymaene
    #4
    02/20/2007 (2:16 pm)
    I had placed a breakpoint on my project's main.cs file; but the ide just kind of hangs. nothing comes up. i have to stop it from the debug menu. interestingly, if i start it w/o debugging, it runs fine. not full screened but on a single monitor.

    Torque 3D Owner Marc Dreamora Schaerer
    Gayasoft
    #5
    02/20/2007 (2:44 pm)
    That sounds like you set the project folder incorrect.

    Project folder must be the games folder, not your project subfolder, otherwise it won't show up anything but will start a tgb.exe which will be in the process list.

    Torque Owner kymaene
    #6
    02/20/2007 (3:07 pm)
    The instructions say this in regards to setting project properties:

    "Here you need to enter at least two basic fields. The Name of your project and the path where your Torque EXE resides, the Base Directory. "

    i've done that. i'm using a copy of the Example directory in the SDK, so i've set the Example directory as my base directory as that one contains the torque.exe that i'm using.

    for configuration:

    "Let us start with a debug config. Enter Debug for the config Name and browse the Executable to find the Torque debug EXE for your project. "

    i do not have a separate debug executable for my project. i'm not really sure why i'd want that tbh. so i set that EXE to the same EXE that launches the game.

    thanks for your help :)