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New Destructible Objects Tutorial

by Michael Perry · in Torque 3D Professional · 06/13/2011 (1:01 pm) · 11 replies

Greetings Torque 3D users! A new tutorial has been uploaded that shows how to create destructible objects for the physics plug-in system. It has replaced the old 3DS Max PhysX guide, which was no longer accurate or guaranteed to work. Three huge selling points of the new tutorial:

1. Written by an artist, not a programmer

2. Short and simple. Get destructible objects into your game very quickly

3. Does not require a special plug-in for your modeling app. Anything that can spit out to COLLADA using the suggested hierarchy will work

Full credit goes to Russell Fincher of Sickhead Games. As usual, his artist guide is very well put together and saves the day. All I did was some editing and conversion work. Big thanks to Russell!

You can find the new tutorial in our Official Documentation, under Artist Guide->Tutorials->Destructible Objects. Enjoy and let us know what you think!
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Torque Owner Joe Melton
Fails At Making Games
#1
06/13/2011 (11:23 pm)
Sweet! =D

Torque Owner Joe Melton
Fails At Making Games
#2
06/13/2011 (11:23 pm)
The website hates me. Sorry for the multi-post...

Torque Owner Joe Melton
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#3
06/13/2011 (11:23 pm)
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Torque 3D Owner Andy Wright
BrokeAss Games
#4
06/14/2011 (1:29 am)
lol Joe.

Thanks for that Mich & Russ, nice easy to follow tutorial.

Torque Owner Andy Rollins
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#5
06/14/2011 (9:00 am)
Cool and great to see new tutorials going into the documentation :)

Torque Owner Giorgio Zanetti ( JoZ )
Corona Team
#6
10/10/2011 (4:37 am)
I cannot find the new tutorial in the above section... deleted?

Torque Owner deepscratch
DeepScratchStudios
#7
10/10/2011 (4:56 am)
oh, well done,
a much needed tutorial

Torque 3D Owner John "Mythic" Henry
EveronWorlds
#8
10/10/2011 (9:34 am)
seems to have gotten lost in translation *chuckle*
Couldnt find the new version myself.

Torque Owner Robert Rice
Default Studio Name
#9
10/14/2011 (8:00 am)
Yeah, I didn't see it out there, either.

Torque Owner Robert Fritzen
Phantom Games Development
#10
10/14/2011 (10:16 am)
Pssst... there is no Destructible Objects listed in there...

Employee Michael Perry
ZombieShortbus
#11
10/14/2011 (10:37 am)
On it.

Employee Michael Perry
ZombieShortbus
#12
10/14/2011 (11:10 am)
We found the problem. We'll be reverting the change that caused the docs to disappear. Hang tight.

Torque Owner Robert Rice
Default Studio Name
#13
10/16/2011 (4:28 pm)
Awesome. Thanks, Micheal.