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Need help setting up the IDE

by Jose Amaya · in Torque 2D Beginner · 07/13/2015 (7:55 am) · 2 replies

Hi experts! I'm new on creating games and I have chosen Torque2D to develop them.

Would someone please help me setting up the IDE? I have downloaded the binary file hoping to install something but the .exe inside its a game, if I could install what I need to develop and compile something would be great

Hoping you guys can help me with this
Best regards
Jose
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Torque Owner Dwarf King
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#1
07/14/2015 (10:45 am)
I believe you would need something like Torsion to work in TorqueScript and then you can run the game and see the changes.

I also believe you would need to built it at least once in Visual Studio in order to make it run.

Here it the documentation:
https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque2D/wiki

At that place you find a start guide:
https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque2D/wiki/Getting-Started-Guide

Hope that helps out! :O)

Associate Simon Love
#2
07/14/2015 (11:55 am)
@Jose : In order to edit the C++ engine code, you can use the free editions of Visual Studio (2010, 2012, 2013 work fine). The script files (the game logic) can be edited in any text editor (Notepad++ for example) but the real tool for the job is Torsion
which currently retails at 39.95$.

Note that T2D has no editors. Creating your own gui must be done by editing text files, same for asset files and all resources. A map editor will have to be created or you will have to code (in T2D) a utility to convert tilemaps from Map editing software like Tiled.