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by GAMEHACK3R · in General Discussion · 05/17/2007 (7:16 pm) · 6 replies

Can multiplayer games be made with TGE or do u have to purchase TNL ??
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Torque 3D Owner ArmedGeek
#1
05/18/2007 (4:25 am)
Yes you can make a multiplayer game with TGE, no you do not need TNL

Torque Owner JD
#2
05/19/2007 (7:11 am)
What exactly is TNL... I know it's supposedly like the OpenSource Tribes2, but I would like a GREATER understanding, that a 10 year old or 120 year old man can use...

Torque Owner Aaron E
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#3
05/19/2007 (7:32 am)
As I understand it, TNL is the networking guts that were (more or less) behind tribes 1/2 and most Torque powered games. Some version of TNL is already built into TGE and TGEA. TNL would be useful for someone wanting Torque networking capabilities in another engine. I may be a little off on the details, but that's the basic idea of TNL. Hopefully someone will correct me if I've misrepresented things.

Torque Owner JD
#4
05/19/2007 (7:56 am)
So it's the stuff powering that 128 players in one server thing, and masterserver crap...?

Associate Matt Fairfax
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#5
05/19/2007 (6:03 pm)
You can potentially have a lot more than 128 players if you game is built for it (some of the test with TNL on Zap had close to a 1000 players).

Quote:masterserver crap...

Crap?

Torque Owner Duncan Gray
#6
05/19/2007 (7:07 pm)
Stuff... crap.... = vocabulary challenged