We are excited to announce version 1.5 of DSQTweaker!

This is an important update that introduces some powerful new features, we hope you can get some use out of this tool and most of all that it saves you time.

Working on this project with the BAG team and the creator of DSQTweaker, Dale Harper, has been a blast! He originally designed the application as his own tool to better understand the DTS/DSQ relationship in Torque, which is why it shows us so much useful information about sequences and their corresponding shapes.

Let’s see…the key points about this update…

Trial Version

There is now a trial version available for free download, here at the TorquePowered store. So please, if you haven’t already, give it a try.

DSQTweaker is now Torque3D compatible!

This is something we’re particularly excited about, and I’d like to thank one of our users, August, who suggested we add version 26 DTS/DSQ support. We were astounded that we had not already been working on that and got right to work implementing it.

During our ongoing discussions of his usage of COLLADA import for characters into Torque3D, he described another issue where his characters required, as many do, that the animations be stored as COLLADA files (.dae). This was not desirable to him, as the file size for each sequence was much larger as a .dae (versus DSQ). So the next big feature was born...

Export of embedded animations from DTS to DSQ

This means developers can now import COLLADA sequences into T3D, creating cached.dts files, then open those files in DSQTweaker and export out the sequence as a DSQ!

Now... some of you power-devs may think: “this tool isn’t mission-critical to my project”, and you may be right. But it is still VERY handy as a reference tool... that is, if your project uses animated shapes, of course. So, by all means, check out the DEMO and see for yourself!

That’s about it for now, but if you want to read the particular details of the new release, just visit the product page.

Thanks for reading!