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Upgrading from 1.0 to 1.7

by Backman · in Torque Game Builder · 01/31/2008 (3:06 pm) · 4 replies

Been away from TGB for a while and see bunch of upgrades, which is just great. I want to convert an oldish project from TGB 1.0 to TGB 1.7, what would be the easiest way to do this? It's not at a too advanced stage so thinking it'd be worthwhile doing. I'm not using any major collision detections that could cause problems either as that was reworked a bit in 1.5 I believe.

Thanks.

#1
01/31/2008 (9:14 pm)
This may not need to be said, but save and archive your old project before doing the upgrade. Just in case.

Assuming 1.0 projects had t2dproj files, I believe the format has been changed at least twice. Opening it should convert the file, however if it cannot you will have to manually copy over the script and image files into a new project. Hopefully someone more experienced in this area can help you out.
#2
02/02/2008 (5:10 pm)
There are no project files in TGB 1.0, so I'd recommend starting over in 1.7.1. I don't even think conversion is possible, but I could be totally wrong. You can probably transfer script files, but other than that, I'm not sure what else you could do. (maybe levels too?)
#3
02/02/2008 (5:37 pm)
You don't have to restart anything. The way to convert is described in this topic:
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=61330
Upgrading from 1.0 to 1.7 should be almost the same as upgrading from 1.3 to 1.5 (except maybe for tilemaps).
#4
02/03/2008 (7:44 am)
Thanks all, going to hop over to that thread. Searched for relevant threads but missed that one.