Torque 3D Development - River & Road Editors

#101 *cough* 2 days to may *sneaking up* *cough* :)

#102 @Luis,
"Game Designing is also finding workarounds"
that is so true! and sometimes quite fun.

@Bo,
dont worry, we'll get it tomorrow. wont we Brett? Brett? Brett, stop hiding, I can see you there! its tomorrow isn't it? yes? or later today? even better!! yes!! today! look at the time, its early in the am, they gonna get to work and say: "Right then, lets give them beta, so they'll leave us in peace for a day or two" yay!!! beta today!! yay!!

#103 on a side note:
are there gonna be new dts exporters shipped with beta?
and will the collada exporters be shipped as well?

#104

Quote:dont worry, we'll get it tomorrow. wont we Brett? Brett? Brett, stop hiding, I can see you there! its tomorrow isn't it? yes? or later today? even better!! yes!! today! look at the time, its early in the am, they gonna get to work and say: "Right then, lets give them beta, so they'll leave us in peace for a day or two" yay!!! beta today!! yay!!

#105 just my futile attempt at "if you say it, it will happen"
please?? (said in a Roger Rabbit voice)

#106 I think Brett will bring us the BETA in an amazing way!
What the hell will he do this?
Let's keep shouting him out :()
Che-che check it out:)

#107 Dont worrie, no need to call him out :D

They promissed us the beta in april, so of course we will get it in april, as the only thing that really counts in this business is your word, and if your word looses value, what do you have left.

So, im not worried :)

And i dont know if Beta is going to pop like mad, im more interested in what they have planned for final release launch :)

#108 People should remember, it is a beta release. What does beta mean? Beta means it will have quite a few bugs that we will be responsible for finding.

#109 I expect bugs, or im not happy :)

Nah, to begin with (beside messing with world editor), i need to find out good ways for me to implement my "custom" things ill be using like content system (pak'ish) file loading, map streaming for infinity map and much more, and a good way to do it so it can be easily implemented in future updates.

So even if it crash each 10 minutes i will still have plenty to do :)

#110 Me ok with bugs...
Me just report them...

Me want Road tool...
Me want Collada...
Me want Water of PhysX

But mostly...
Me want advanced lighting and new app-candy

Other wise me want brainz....

#111 Well, we're down the wire eh? :) Funny how setting deadlines always ensures such a thing. Here's a quick update:

We've spent the last few days doing a really thorough pass on a build we put together over the weekend. It had some terrain rendering issues on ATI cards that appear to have been sorted out. There's one remaining crash that we're getting resolved, and *hopefully* we will indeed get a build out and new blog up tomorrow, the last day of April = b

I should say that part of the reason why we've slipped is that we've discovered quite a few things we wanted to add to the core before release. So we're feature creeping, but just a bit. It's all for the good though. This is going to be one rocking toolset when it's finished.

I'll talk about this a bit more in the blog (hopefully tomorrow), but we're definitely not meeting the strict definition of a beta. As a publisher funding a game for example, Beta is typically defined to be feature complete and free of all known bugs. How many beta products have you tested that meet that definition? Not many out there that I know. So, strictly, what we'll be putting together as "Beta1" is probably something closer to an Alpha, but it doesn't matter so much as long as you know what you're getting into. Your feedback will be crucial in the coming weeks, so we want you to use it and we'll be listing, tweaking and tuning until we're happy calling this a release candidate.

We'd planned on final release in May, and that's still possible, but looking much more aggressive than we'd expected, so we might spend more time in beta than a month, but we'll be pushing out new builds often, probably on something like a 1.5-2 week cycle. The good news for people who haven't yet purchased is that we'll probably have a longer window to get the pre-order discount than expected too :)

#112 @Brett
Wow, u r finally out:)
And bring the news which blow anxieties and uncertainties away.
I think it's just few hours before the first time in my life that i touch the pretty great BABY:)

#113 @Brett,
what you guys have been doing to get beta out on a deadline doesnt go unnoticed, I know what its like to work against a deadline, hell, the last two months we've been pushing at work, I've already forgotten what a day off is, we've been working weekends and public holidays on a project here, and then the art director will come in and say "but thats not what I wanted!!!" after 20 hours of texturing, strip everything down, start again. and the next project will be the same, and so was the last one.(Im an artist in the theatre/cinema industry)
so
really
all the little comments and needling are realy just a way of saying "I know what its like, I've been there"
great work guys.
thanks for the push.

#114 @Brett

TBH i actually didnt think you would have made it :P so kudos to you on that part :)

#115 Woot, this is about a month earlier than I expected :)

#116 mmm, well its 5:20PM 30TH here where I am...
and the posting time says 7:20AM 30TH,
so you guys aren't even at work yet!!!
and I just got home from work!!
time zones suck.
and yes, this post was just to check the time >8o)

#117 C'mon Deepscratch, you know devs don't get out of bed until the afternoon ...

#118 but, but, but...

#119 Let's give praise to the DEV department! The blood, tears, and arthritis will not be in vain!

HIP HIP HURRAY!!!!!!!!

#120 April 30th.. woo : D

I shall laugh if the link goes up at 11:59:59 ; p