Torque 3D Status - 9/11/2010

#41 At the moment we are focused on releasing a Binary version of Torque 3D 1.1 Beta 3 and then will be focusing on releasing a Mac version of Torque 3D 1.1 Beta 3.

The release of the Final version of Torque 3D 1.1 will depend on the results of those additional Betas.

#42 Good to know. Thanks for the update, Matt! =)

#43 If you're throwing in extra fixes for "Binary beta3" can we get a "Beta3a for Pro" or at least the code changes.
T'anks

#44 The Binary 1.1 Beta 3 is the same codebase as the Pro 1.1 Beta 3 so there won't be a discrepancy to worry about between them.

#45 Any thoughts as to the possibility of an actual TorquePowered web-demo? Wouldn't that help present Torque 3D to a broader audience? After all, that was one of it's *key* features in advertising.

I suppose it wouldn't make much sense to base one on a beta release -- without disclaimers at least ;) -- but it has been more than a year since an official binary and/or demo release and still no cool tech demo on the front page to grab potential interested customers attention.

#46 Is Torque taking on to much for to few people?

#47 Hi Matt,

There has been a month since the last status, can we expect to have one soon?

I mean you are focusing on Binary and Mac version, that's fair, but what about the bugs that have been raised on previous Beta that are still pending review or fix?
I didn't see a lot of bug "confirmed" nor "resolved" during 1 month does the QA process is not working as expecting since the School year started?

you made big effort on communication the past months and the community appreciate it, don't loose your Karma :D

Thanks,

#48 See Eric's latest blog for the update.

#49 Still will there be any updates to Torque 3D or development is all stopped?

#50 Things I'd like to see if there is a final.

SANTA?! MY WISH LIST!

Reflections on water don't seem to be working at all on player or some dts objects. (havent tried w/dif) Full Reflections button doesn't do a thing...

Sound is still messed up. When you change control object, the sound stays at a "3D" spot where that change occured...so the farther your player gets away from the source (or point where you changed control), the less sound you can hear... this has been a bug since the first beta.. seen it multiple times since the 1st Beta. Needs fixed.

What happened to the docs from TGEA? TDN has half-arsed docs now too. Like some of them are missing. They were still helpful for T3D... Those need updated for T3D and made available.

Camera needs to beable to do what the docs refer to. Namely this "Tethered Camera." Its been bugging the crap out of me for months on end.... PLEASE A FRIGGEN WORKING EXAMPLE AT LEAST?!

Speaking of Camera is what we have now what we get?

The material editor... it does not correctly assign materals half the time. Reload the level and I get the good ol' Orange NO MATERIAL.

Dynamical Reflections? How do you get them to work without rewritting a whole new shader? For some reason I was thinking this was built in and accessible in the material editor? Maybe I was mistaken... anyways... could we see an example of planar and dynamic reflections on a DTS object? Or even better, get dynamic reflections working on the mat editor (I swear is was in previous versions!)

PathShape to be stock.

PathCamera to be stock (I seen a bit of this in the editor somewhere, was it in the works?)

Melee to be stock. (a real solution like Josh Moores)

GroundCover to be usable on DTS materials instead of just terrain materials. Like the forest editor can be used on any surface.

Make the script editor resource stock and have the ability to cut/copy/paste/undo/save/load etc... and it would be really cool it would work smoothly with the other editors...particle/datablock editors..

Split screen editing possible so you can see various projections. That would be so awesome and helpful for many games.

Mesh based path tool in the editor expanded to use sides (seen a cool resource for this)

Konrad's terrain resource for movement, expanded for such things as quick sand, ice, etc, and put in stock...

You could make about any game you want with those few things.

Itd also be real nice to have the ability to add other functionality like radars and maps and little stuff like that without code changes.

Then I would be rediculiously happy! :)

Hope you guys had a good turkey day!

EDIT:

2 more....

real multi-directional player movement

ability to treat the camera and player as separate objects correctly ...and it works over network...

#51 @J
The water reflections are working correctly. They are the first thing that gets culled from the view so if you're not close enough to the water then they wont be visible.

#52 Santa's elves got sacked and are currently huddled around a burning dumpster for warmth ... the grotto is up for sale ... no elves, no toys.

Also, my "Galaxy Munching Game" has no need for stock melee. I'll have to code my own custom digestion simulator though ...

#53 MATT, when can release T3D1.1??
Not Beta...

#54 1.1 is scheduled in the next few weeks, as one of Eric's blogs mentioned.

#55 but the next few weeks> 1 month++

#56 yeah, that blog WAS already a few weeks ago..

#57 lol - a couple of days....

#58 yeah.....
right....

#59 "bad joke" doesn't even describe this anymore.

#60 Just so everyone is on the same page here, cause this might be where things are getting mixed up.

Couple - a small indefinite number; "he's coming for a couple of days".

Middle - equally distant from the extremes.

Second - 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites.

There are 60 second in 1 mintue.

There are 60 minutes in 1 hour.

There are 86,400 second in a day, that is 24 hours, or 1,440 minutes.

There are 604,800 seconds in a week, that is 168 hours, or 10,080 minutes, or even 7 days.

On average there are 2,629,743 seconds in a month, that is 730 hours, or 43,829 minutes, or an average of 30 days, or even 4 weeks.

Now this one is what you guys might be getting weeks confused with.

There are 31,556,926 secons in a year, that is 8765 hours, or 525,948 minutes, or 365 days, or even 52 weeks.


Someone had to do it, I know you guys are wanting it to be perfect, I've heard too many hints or predictions as to when it will be dropping. You really gotta watch that, as the last thing I read was saying the middle of this month, and this month is coming to a close now.

We've fixed most of the bugs we've found ourselves, so it's not overly important we ever get a final, it would be nice to get it before we get too much further though so we can go ahead and get everything wrenched in before it becomes too much of a process.