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Torque 3D Development - 1.1 Beta 3!

by Matt Fairfax · 09/20/2010 (7:00 pm) · 60 comments

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Torque 3D 1.1 development continues smoothly along. If you are a Torque 3D Professional owner, you can grab the Torque 3D 1.1 Beta 3 from your account page.

This release introduces support for Visual Studio 2010 and includes a prettification of the Deathball Desert level in FPS Example (the Deathball finally makes its appearance!) but this update was definitely focused on fixing bugs.

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The Deathball is back! Click image to see more!

QA Process


We've been working hard this year to improve our QA process so that we can deliver a more polished experience to you guys and to make it easier for you to track the progress of development.

Towards that end you may have noticed that we are now starting to add additional notes to the titles of your bug posts. This includes:

  • LOGGED - the bug has been logged into our internal bug tracker (you should see a ticket number posted)
  • CONFIRMED - the bug has been confirmed by our internal QA team and reproduction steps are submitted to the developers
  • RESOLVED - the bug has been fixed by the developers and the fix has been confirmed by the QA team
By tracking these updates to the bug reports, you can get a pretty accurate picture of the progress that is being made on getting you the next release.

We would also like to start editing the titles of the bug report threads to more closely match our internal bug titles. These are where we've dug into the bug a bit more and wanted to make them as descriptive as possible for the project managers and the developers who are scanning through the pool of unfixed bugs. Obviously, the better the bug title you post initially, the less likely we will need to change it.

We thought about beginning this process with Torque 3D 1.1 Beta 2 but we wanted to give you all a heads up first before we started changing the name of forum threads in a significant way since that is something we've never done in the past. To be clear, we only intend to edit the title of forum threads when they are a bug report (or violate our TOS).

Status Updates


The loyal followers of the Torque 3D Private forums already know that we have been posting regular updates about the current status of Torque 3D development. These updates come about once a month (give or take extraneous circumstances). If you are interested in the progress of Torque 3D development, I highly recommend keeping an eye out for these updates. You can see the ones we did for Torque 3D 1.1 Beta 3 here:

Resolved Bugs


Here is the full list of bugs that were resolved with Torque 3D 1.1 Beta 3. You can find the full changelog here.

Resolved Bugs:

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Associate Matt Fairfax
PopCap

About the author

I am a Game Designer at PopCap who has worked on PvZ Adventures, PvZ2, Peggle Blast, and Bejeweled Skies. I am an ex-GarageGames employee who helped ship TGE, TGEA, Torque 3D, and Constructor.

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Torque Owner Richard Hebblewhite
RareBit Interactive
#1
09/20/2010 (7:15 pm)
Wow - didn't expect to see this when I popped in for a visit. Good news indeed! :-)

Torque 3D Owner Andy Wright
BrokeAss Games
#2
09/20/2010 (7:35 pm)
Whoo good stuff!

I'm curious to have a look at that deathball desert to see if its using a single base texture for the zone aswell :)

Torque 3D Owner Alexandre Ribeiro de Sa
#3
09/20/2010 (7:37 pm)
WOW!!! THAT ROCKS ARE MADE WITH THE TERRAIN EDITOR?!?!?!

Torque Owner Bobby Leighton
Imagn' Games
#4
09/20/2010 (7:38 pm)
You guys have really stepped up in regards to everything! Thanks for taking the time, for the updates, and trying hard to work more closely with the community, and for the community:O)

Great update!

Associate Scott Burns
GG Alumni
#5
09/20/2010 (7:50 pm)
@Alexandre
The buttes you see in there are actually dts shapes. They're a great example of combining terrains and static shapes for a desired look.

Torque Owner Tyler Slabinski
#6
09/20/2010 (9:59 pm)
Quote:@Alexandre
The buttes you see in there are actually dts shapes. They're a great example of combining terrains and static shapes for a desired look.

I would like to see some sort of blending effect for the terrain and dts object. Though I guess that's not really an important feature =P.

Torque Owner Christian S
Oak-Entertainment
#7
09/20/2010 (10:36 pm)
Alrighty. Have to say this; awesome work TP guys ;)

Theres so much of what I dreamt on when fisrt diving into GG's engines in T3D. The visions of large maps and crispy fluff worlds when I supported TSE is now brought alive.

And the dream of proper water and SpeedTreeRT alike foilage is now in my hands...

Thank you <hugs team>

Torque 3D Owner Glen "ThaBonadingus" Reece
#8
09/21/2010 (12:27 am)
Sweet. Things are moving along. I'm just waiting for the full release and those demos. Any beta videos being made by users?

Torque 3D Owner Ray Batts
Sickhead Games
#9
09/21/2010 (1:53 am)
There are usually like 50 comments per T3D Beta Release blog.... Where are they all at?! :P

@Glen: What do you WANT to see? ;) Have you looked at the T3D showoff thread? A lot of users on the last couple of pages are using the beta...

www.torquepowered.com/community/forums/viewthread/93301

Torque Owner Jules
Something2Play
#10
09/21/2010 (9:24 am)
Really good work on this TP. Not long now until 1.1 final, B3 the most stable release as far as I can tell yet.

Torque Owner D Fasel
Game 3D
#11
09/21/2010 (10:35 am)
It looks awesome now. I will give a test to implement some elements from my project, like radar, UAISK, and more. Me wonder how this work in the new beta.

Torque Owner Andy S.
Default Studio Name
#12
09/21/2010 (5:25 pm)
Nice work! Since the initial doc has been completed some weeks ago, what is the plan for GG in this regard? Are you working on more docs? Like little tutorials, maybe just as can be found for unity3d?

Torque Owner Szzg007
super pig-head Studio
#13
09/21/2010 (5:37 pm)
BETA3 BETA3 BETA3....MATT is God....HOHO~~~~~~..
I very like T3D Beta3....

Torque 3D Owner Matt Huston
Atomic Banzai Games
#14
09/21/2010 (5:56 pm)
@Ray

Hopefully people are porting their projects over ;)

Torque Owner Ron Barbosa
Disposable Fun
#15
09/21/2010 (6:12 pm)
Very cool indeed...loving the new Deathball! :)

I'm sure this is already asked...but how far off of GA is this build?

When can we expect 1.1 final?

--RB

Associate Matt Fairfax
PopCap
#16
09/21/2010 (6:19 pm)
There are still a number of bugs we'd like to fix for Torque 3D 1.1 Final. We want to make sure that it is a very stable and very productive version for people to build games with.

We will continue to post our progress with the bug fixing on the forums but we expect it to take several months to finish what we have slated against Final.

Torque 3D Owner Glen "ThaBonadingus" Reece
#17
09/21/2010 (7:14 pm)
@Ray: I was looking through that thread before. I haven't been as active on Torque Forums recently because we haven't used it much yet. Buuuutt! Since Torque is moving to 1.1 soon then I'm preparing.

@Matt F: So is Beta 3 planned to be the last beta or will there be more before final? Also is there a planned release for the demos? I think it was mentioned they'd be released at 1.1 final, I'm just not sure.

I'm really waiting for the final, but I also need pro so that I can still look at more of the updates.

Associate Matt Fairfax
PopCap
#18
09/21/2010 (7:24 pm)
At this point Beta 3 is intended to be the last beta before Final.

The South Pacific demo is coming along nicely and we hope to release a Beta of it to the Pro users before too much longer as a separate download.

Torque Owner Zealander
Default Studio Name
#19
09/21/2010 (7:48 pm)
Great Pacific Demo news, i was excited about the demo just saw GDC 2009 presentations, wanna play with it so much !!!

Torque Owner Shaolin Dave
AwesomeSauce Games, L.L.C.
#20
09/22/2010 (1:48 am)
That's great... now what about the Mac version?
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