Torque script
by GAMEHACK3R · in General Discussion · 05/21/2007 (11:20 pm) · 23 replies
Im new to torque , just purchased TGE , and have found it very hard to find any indepth tutorials into torque script, from what i can gather torque script is ,for lack of a better phrase, "very weak". From what i can tell most game customisation ie player speed , has to be done via C++. I have not looked into doing the C++ side as i was hoping that since the TGE's torque script was suppose to be powerful i could do all of my coding in torque script instead of having to use C++ and TS.
I have completed quite a few of the tutorials, and have gone thru hundreds of posts in the last few days and i see over and over the use of C++, to get flexibility in my game am i going to have to rewrite in C++ or am i missing something ?? can Torque script provide a great degree of flexibility "out of the box" ?????
im trying to make the trasition from a C-script based engine which u could do everything with "out of the box" without any engine rewrite which came with great documentation (torques "out of the box" documentation is a little lacking). As many of u know , doing an engine rewrite takes a lot of time , where as using the higher lvl language takes very little time to modify your game to suit your needs.
i guess what i need is a "can and cant" do list of torque script, id prefer not to be spending countless hours trying to find/do things that just simply cant be done in torque script.
I have completed quite a few of the tutorials, and have gone thru hundreds of posts in the last few days and i see over and over the use of C++, to get flexibility in my game am i going to have to rewrite in C++ or am i missing something ?? can Torque script provide a great degree of flexibility "out of the box" ?????
im trying to make the trasition from a C-script based engine which u could do everything with "out of the box" without any engine rewrite which came with great documentation (torques "out of the box" documentation is a little lacking). As many of u know , doing an engine rewrite takes a lot of time , where as using the higher lvl language takes very little time to modify your game to suit your needs.
i guess what i need is a "can and cant" do list of torque script, id prefer not to be spending countless hours trying to find/do things that just simply cant be done in torque script.
#22
05/23/2007 (8:11 am)
There have been spurious reports of people getting it to work, but when asked, I don't remember anyone mentioning *how* they got DevC++ working with TGE. It is currently unsupported. If you can get it to work, let others know how.
#23
Actually I think there should be a group of GG Employees or Interns that give tutorials on setting stuff up. I'm actually writing a tutorial *pictures in it* to get Quark Working with TGE, and as I learn more, I'll update it more. In about 2 weeks I'll make it a resource. Also I'll do a Mission Editor Tutorial. This is an effort to make an Atlantis Development Network for my Game Atlantis - 2042 *However this Development network will be freely based*, No one will have to pay to get in :-P, As such it'll cover alot more in depth to the basics of Torque, such as making Models, Texturing, Cutting, Exporting in High and Low LOD. Then More about how to texture.
05/23/2007 (9:57 am)
Yea I would love too! If I could get ANYTHING to work, I'd tell how. :-).Actually I think there should be a group of GG Employees or Interns that give tutorials on setting stuff up. I'm actually writing a tutorial *pictures in it* to get Quark Working with TGE, and as I learn more, I'll update it more. In about 2 weeks I'll make it a resource. Also I'll do a Mission Editor Tutorial. This is an effort to make an Atlantis Development Network for my Game Atlantis - 2042 *However this Development network will be freely based*, No one will have to pay to get in :-P, As such it'll cover alot more in depth to the basics of Torque, such as making Models, Texturing, Cutting, Exporting in High and Low LOD. Then More about how to texture.
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