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TSE - some more info @Joel Obviously I don't know what I'm talking about, but if you just want to use some combination... read more 03/22/2004 (5:42 pm)
TSE - some more info Will TSE mean that DTS objects can be given (relatively cheap) per-pixel fogging like DIFs currently... read more 03/21/2004 (8:22 pm)
Quark lighting flaw I always figured it was the result of the machine making a bad choice when figuring out how to UV th... read more 03/08/2004 (9:40 pm)
Sci-Fi Alien Art Concepts What adaptations do the Prinn have for arboreal life? They look like they would have a hard time ha... read more 02/15/2004 (5:59 pm)
Fog layer colors / dynamic terrain lighting It sounds like you want to do a source modification here -- you want the lighting engine to do a dep... read more 01/31/2004 (11:00 am)
Which is simpler? UScript or torque script Remember that if you aren't a huge fan of TourqueScript, you can always use [url=http://www.actionrp... read more 01/25/2004 (5:52 pm)
Web Site creation Advice? Oh, I almost forgot! HTMLTidy is a wonderful addition to any editing environment. I use it to make... read more 01/05/2004 (10:35 pm)
Web Site creation Advice? I strongly recommend Macromedia (formerly Allaire) HomeSite, and even more strongly recommend TopSty... read more 01/04/2004 (1:40 pm)
Resistance group game Randall: it's hard for those of us in the USA to understand just how few guns people in some countri... read more 12/27/2003 (9:06 pm)
Seperate DX and OGL?? I'm not sure his explanation is accurate, though. Starsiege: TRIBES, as originally released (dig ou... read more 12/05/2003 (7:51 pm)
Can we devs learn from Battlestar Galactica? Randall -- artists put other peoples' IP on their demo reels all the time. How many people have an ... read more 11/29/2003 (11:56 pm)
THIS is why shaders are awesome! Of course, on the other hand you have people like me who are taking a step back from their high-end ... read more 11/29/2003 (2:42 pm)
THIS is why shaders are awesome! Outcast did DoF in software in 1999 ;) I'm just sayin'...... read more 11/27/2003 (8:45 pm)
Please Delete (Ted -- fix the image of the Landsquid on your webpage! It is still "temporarily unavailable") E... read more 11/26/2003 (5:39 pm)
Activision Misses the Point @Randall Pretending that Dance Dance Revolution wasn't wildly innovative and didn't bust open a p... read more 11/25/2003 (11:46 pm)
Question about sales IIRC, Windows accounts for only 50% of the sales of one of the major GG releases.... read more 11/25/2003 (11:35 pm)
THIS is why shaders are awesome! Games follow the 80-20 rule: 80% of games are purchased by 20% of gamers. [url=http://www.garagegam... read more 11/25/2003 (11:32 pm)
WAD creation Perhaps try exectuing the bat from the DOS console?... read more 11/20/2003 (8:25 pm)
Spanking new Particle Engine Some ideas for Melv: - Have you considered releasing under, say, LGPL, and charging only those wh... read more 11/18/2003 (11:12 am)
Clarification regarding likelihood that game will get published 1) It's hard to finish a game. You should try it :) 2) Garage Games hasn't been open for too lon... read more 11/10/2003 (3:13 pm)
Max2Dif Matthew Jones: max2map already has the "no concavity" problem, and it isn't a problem. The desire h... read more 11/07/2003 (10:08 am)
Deploying Torque on Xbox? On PS2? I don't think Torque in its current form would be very PS2 or XBOX friendly, though. The entire eng... read more 11/04/2003 (5:23 am)
What was the IGC annoucement about Realm Wars I third that.... read more 10/21/2003 (2:24 pm)
Indie Games as Gifts? I gave two GarageGames games (Orbz and Chain Reaction) as a birthday gift once, and it would be very... read more 10/17/2003 (12:57 pm)
Wild West RPG And there's always ActionRPG.com by our very own Joshua Ritter.... read more 09/15/2003 (1:27 pm)
Full Bright - Where are the Shadows??? Um... what's your problem exactly? Models showing up as bright white, or what?... read more 09/04/2003 (12:25 pm)
Tutorial on how to get level into Torque Oo boy... I think we need to re-educate you on what a level IS in Torque. We aren't in Half-Life an... read more 06/22/2003 (11:51 am)
W.A.S.T.E. - NullSoft and AOL vs the GPL Also, remember -- AOLTW has nothing to gain from destroying the GPL license. Mozilla, an AOLTW proj... read more 06/03/2003 (12:09 pm)
AI and Why? I'm not sure I agree entirely. One game, as far as I am concerned, has mastered the art of artifi... read more 05/28/2003 (1:46 pm)
:) -- :D -- :p -- :0 -- :O -- >:( >8-()(&) A man who just found out he has a tapeworm.... read more 05/21/2003 (7:47 pm)
Need some suggestions for mission editing requirements. Well, right off the top of my head: - Arbitrary object grouping - Ability to group AI units unde... read more 04/12/2003 (2:18 pm)
High Res Terrain textures plz? Couldn't you use the resource that allows multiple terrain files to be placed next to each other, th... read more 03/11/2003 (10:37 am)
"Unconventional building" bet ;) How would that be done? Some sort of cross-pollenation of the terrain's dynamic LODing and the inte... read more 03/05/2003 (6:54 am)
Any documentation about variables? (what they do, range of value [i](takes own advice...)[/i] @ Jarrod: I know you didn't mean it this way, but what you said came... read more 02/23/2003 (1:43 pm)
Visible polygon count / polygon maximums Could someone who knows ANYTHING about computer graphics please respond to this stuff? I'm already ... read more 02/18/2003 (6:53 pm)
Visible polygon count / polygon maximums Well, your textures have to fit into your video RAM. So if you're targeting a 64MB GeForce 3, then ... read more 02/18/2003 (10:20 am)
Visible polygon count / polygon maximums I think part of the problem with answering this question is that the total number of onscreen polys ... read more 02/17/2003 (12:40 pm)
Open source bug threatens Linux So basically, a weakness in a program used by everyone, including those developing Linux, was discov... read more 02/13/2003 (9:33 am)
Terrain lighting mirrored Labrat: I had a lot of experience with this problem in T2. It really doesn't matter what the hec... read more 02/07/2003 (2:11 pm)
GAME ENGINES RANKING (The best game engine) But compared to the other costs in game dev, $100 is nothing. * Most people use 3dsm for 3D work,... read more 02/05/2003 (6:49 am)
Terrain lighting mirrored The same thing happens occasionally in T2. Just try fooling with the direction values a bit, and th... read more 02/05/2003 (6:41 am)
Importing of DTS files into LightWave: Discussion I'm voting, "do it," but I'm not saying why, yet. I'm waiting until tomorrow, when we're all bright... read more 01/17/2003 (9:54 pm)
Rich Pixel Format - RPF "...Rich Pixel Format, a popular SGI format that supports the ability to include arbitrary image ch... read more 01/13/2003 (12:06 pm)
Jpeg or PNG?? While JPGs are compressed, they must be uncompressed in video memory before Torque can use them as t... read more 01/11/2003 (7:53 pm)
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