Small sugestion
by Thomas Champion · in Torque 3D Professional · 12/12/2011 (9:28 am) · 7 replies
I know Torgue has several engine versions. I find it frustrating when i do a search and get 100 hits from 8 years ago.It does not matter if you type in T3d1.2 shaders, You still get all the 8 and 9 year old threads that cant work with the new engine.It looks as if the forums have never been cleaned up.
Having the engine version listed to click on then do a search and have the list comeback for that specific engine would be a awsome feature on the Torque site.
I dont know how big of a company GG is, but you would think the forums would be sectioned off by engine version, sort of the way the addons have there own private forums.I have searched for a mini map for T3d and get the 40 page's of tge, and tgea radar code. Im not that good at scripting,(But i guess i will hardcode my own minimap gui.) and the forums offer the help i need. but im tired of going thru 40 pages of tge and tgea threads trying to find a solution for a T3d1.2 problem.I don't like asking in the forums.
It cant be that hard to remove post from the forums for engines that garage games dos'nt even suport anymore.
This is my last post ,I wish everyone a merry Christmas and awsome new year. and good luck with you'r projects. With luck and fortitude maybe i will see a game from the engine sold and not just engine updates in the form of mods.
Its ok if you respond to this thread, but i wont be around to read it.
Having the engine version listed to click on then do a search and have the list comeback for that specific engine would be a awsome feature on the Torque site.
I dont know how big of a company GG is, but you would think the forums would be sectioned off by engine version, sort of the way the addons have there own private forums.I have searched for a mini map for T3d and get the 40 page's of tge, and tgea radar code. Im not that good at scripting,(But i guess i will hardcode my own minimap gui.) and the forums offer the help i need. but im tired of going thru 40 pages of tge and tgea threads trying to find a solution for a T3d1.2 problem.I don't like asking in the forums.
It cant be that hard to remove post from the forums for engines that garage games dos'nt even suport anymore.
This is my last post ,I wish everyone a merry Christmas and awsome new year. and good luck with you'r projects. With luck and fortitude maybe i will see a game from the engine sold and not just engine updates in the form of mods.
Its ok if you respond to this thread, but i wont be around to read it.
#2
but as a beginner with zero knowledge on game development tge/tgea related posts helped me a lot then t3d's post.most of the t3d users are old experienced torque users.so most of them never explain old things in their current post.for understanding them those old torque engines post help me a lot.for a programmer,old tgea doc is a lot better than t3d's current doc's engine site.
so i will request to not to remove them from forum.make them an archive or give a option to search into an specific engine's forum.
12/12/2011 (11:35 pm)
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It cant be that hard to remove post from the forums for engines that garage games dos'nt even suport anymore.
but as a beginner with zero knowledge on game development tge/tgea related posts helped me a lot then t3d's post.most of the t3d users are old experienced torque users.so most of them never explain old things in their current post.for understanding them those old torque engines post help me a lot.for a programmer,old tgea doc is a lot better than t3d's current doc's engine site.
so i will request to not to remove them from forum.make them an archive or give a option to search into an specific engine's forum.
#3
per say , next to genre kits, or art packs.
[url]http://www.garagegames.com/community/search#Search site[/url]
go here and look at the topics, you dont have to read them.
Theres 10 pages of threads about the forum search.My sugestion would make searching the forums alot easier for everyone.
Forums (scrool down)
Tge
Tgea
Tse
T3d1.1
T3d1.2
Resources
Then you click on you'r engine and it goes to the threads for that particular engine.if you wanted to look at older threads you have the option to click on Tge, or Tgea, or any other engine to find code you might be able to port to you'r engine.
it just cleans up the forums a bit and catagorize's the engines.
12/13/2011 (3:30 am)
not neccesarily remove from the forums. simply to put a drop down on the main site that catagorized the engines. then u could click on the engine you need info on, without having to dredge thru all the 8 year old post to find it.like this,per say , next to genre kits, or art packs.
[url]http://www.garagegames.com/community/search#Search site[/url]
go here and look at the topics, you dont have to read them.
Theres 10 pages of threads about the forum search.My sugestion would make searching the forums alot easier for everyone.
Forums (scrool down)
Tge
Tgea
Tse
T3d1.1
T3d1.2
Resources
Then you click on you'r engine and it goes to the threads for that particular engine.if you wanted to look at older threads you have the option to click on Tge, or Tgea, or any other engine to find code you might be able to port to you'r engine.
it just cleans up the forums a bit and catagorize's the engines.
#4
12/13/2011 (5:45 am)
A request for extra tabs on the search results page has already been made, and I believe it would be a good feature. I do believe however that the web guy must be busy on another project, hopefully he is fixing the god awful design mess that is the Torque3D section of the website. 
#5
There was some separation of the engines (public and private by version) until they decided it was all public with the exception of a few forum sections. Which worsened an already known problem with Search.
The biggest problem with categorizing search results is the need to somehow tag individual forum threads as specific to an engine. You can do this with a script, yet in a lot of cases this knowledge can carry forward and is useful in all engines. So for best results someone needs to do this manually and there are is a lot of history in these forums to wade through. Only when you get to wanting exact copy/paste code does the engine version truly matter.
But in todays world we're all lazy and in a hurry and don't have time to search through countless *useless* threads or learning how to convert old code to new(er) engines... or so the theory goes ;) So why haven't they "fixed" things yet? Time. Resources. Priorities.
12/13/2011 (9:08 am)
The forums here have always been *unique*. Knowledge is what I find most useful... and surprisingly I usually find what I'm looking for in moments.There was some separation of the engines (public and private by version) until they decided it was all public with the exception of a few forum sections. Which worsened an already known problem with Search.
The biggest problem with categorizing search results is the need to somehow tag individual forum threads as specific to an engine. You can do this with a script, yet in a lot of cases this knowledge can carry forward and is useful in all engines. So for best results someone needs to do this manually and there are is a lot of history in these forums to wade through. Only when you get to wanting exact copy/paste code does the engine version truly matter.
But in todays world we're all lazy and in a hurry and don't have time to search through countless *useless* threads or learning how to convert old code to new(er) engines... or so the theory goes ;) So why haven't they "fixed" things yet? Time. Resources. Priorities.
#6
12/13/2011 (9:59 am)
The threads are already tagged with which forum they are in, that in itself would hugely help, simply by being able to focus on an engine specific forum first before expanding your search would be most productive, adding extra tabs on the search results page shouldn't be more than an hours work for anybody.
#7
I still think the forums could be fixed really easy.
It would be more appealing to the new users and to the ones using the demo that are thinking about buying it.
Anyway. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
12/13/2011 (2:16 pm)
I had to delete all my video's. SOmeone taged them all as copyright theft, and i was getting mail from youtube about them. there was no copyright theft.there was no music in them and i own a license to everything i used. but i just deleted them all rather than have a fight about it.Thats why i said this was my last thread in the forums.I still think the forums could be fixed really easy.
It would be more appealing to the new users and to the ones using the demo that are thinking about buying it.
Anyway. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
Torque Owner deepscratch
DeepScratchStudios
I cannot begin to count how many times a post from 2002 has been exactly what was needed and saved hours of head smashing.
keep the old posts and threads available to us, they are an absolute gold mine of information.