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How good can Torque look? I "think" that if you use the Torque Lighting Kit that you can have your shadows as well.... read more 03/28/2006 (5:09 am)
New books from Garage Games As far as international distribution goes, as your book will be available on Amazon that's a pretty ... read more 03/22/2006 (3:33 am)
Will GG Ever Make... I've been working with Director 3D all day, today, and you can make games with it, but you're right ... read more 03/21/2006 (8:45 am)
New books from Garage Games Ordered mine from Amazon UK a month or so ago, I have to wait until May for mine :( I'm really loo... read more 03/21/2006 (2:46 am)
Ok let me see if I get this right (Creation Tools Question) I rate 3D world studio for DIF creation. I'm not very experience with quark though.... read more 03/17/2006 (4:45 am)
Jobs, jobs, jobs in game industry It can never hurt to know them all :) As well as expertise in one particular modeller, a good theor... read more 03/17/2006 (4:32 am)
Bells and whistles and no QC I had the same problem for ages until I pressed the Mark all as read button, now all is good.... read more 02/24/2006 (3:25 pm)
Best Tree Pack? Arteria gaming have some medieval buildings, no idea how good they are, but the screenshots look nic... read more 02/24/2006 (3:20 pm)
Best Tree Pack? Loopix trees are very nice in my opinion, and cheap too. The pack contains the DTS files, as well a... read more 02/23/2006 (2:30 am)
Distributing TGE-based game _with_ source code. How? You will need one license for each of your developers who works with the C++ source. Sounds to me l... read more 02/23/2006 (2:27 am)
What is the process of getting my video game rated? Being non profit doesn't mean the same as doing things for free. $1000 doesn't sound too bad to me.... read more 02/23/2006 (2:13 am)
My Mac has a ONE button mouse, So what gives? Seriously, buy a good quality wheel mouse. Working in 3D with a one button mouse hurts soooo much. ... read more 02/22/2006 (2:09 am)
Simple question.... You can bring up a frame rate counter in the engine, although I have a feeling that when you press f... read more 02/21/2006 (2:24 am)
Ok, what now ? I only have the first edition, and I have found that it gave a pretty good introduction into what is... read more 02/21/2006 (2:11 am)
Low Spec Tips Please. Thanks for the pointers, I'll have to look into vertex animation as I know very little about that. ... read more 02/21/2006 (2:06 am)
Weird water fullscreen issue I've tested this on my laptop and found that it looked fine. That has a Radeon IGP 345M I think tha... read more 02/18/2006 (11:16 am)
Cheap plants/trees for your games Fair play to you then, I'm very impressed :) I can import the .3ds file into max anyway. Have you ... read more 02/17/2006 (8:27 am)
Cheap plants/trees for your games I've bought both the tree packs, and I think that they are great value, they've saved me hours and h... read more 02/17/2006 (5:13 am)
3rd person perspective mouse control, possible? I know that this thread is old now, but since it looks like I forgot to say thanks.... So, Thanks f... read more 02/17/2006 (1:42 am)
Team Needed In Toronto He asked for a programmer too......... read more 02/16/2006 (8:49 am)
More Content Pack ideas ?? General Medieval people would be great, especially imho regular people who aren't soldiers, aren't s... read more 02/16/2006 (6:55 am)
About dimensions in RTS'es Does "worms" count as an RTS? That was far more fun in 2D!... read more 02/16/2006 (2:09 am)
Isometric Games that use a vanishing point? Surely if there is a vanishing point then that implies perspective. I don't think that you could hav... read more 02/11/2006 (8:39 am)
Torque Crashing in my old PC I'll be able to test it later in the week at work, we have a few 98 machines that I can try it on. ... read more 01/29/2006 (5:09 am)
How can I play an AVI file in TGE. How does one go about converting an avi to theora? I've seen there are a few libraries on the theora... read more 01/23/2006 (8:09 am)
Intel Mac and Torque I doubt apple would want to let OSX run on PCs as they would lose the revenue from there hardware sa... read more 01/17/2006 (2:11 am)
Suggestions on learning scripts You could buy Kenneth Finney's book. ( the first one )... read more 01/17/2006 (1:48 am)
Dexsoft - Free Textures and FREE MODELS Nice work... read more 01/16/2006 (3:35 am)
ORKVALE - Stronghold - Preorders I got the link that you emailed me, thanks for that. I'm glad that you switched to Paypal, as I was... read more 01/13/2006 (2:48 am)
Mapping Kit "Beginner" Handbook I just bought your full Mapping Kit, glad that you now support Paypal :) BTW it looks like the menu... read more 01/11/2006 (5:10 am)
Debugging tools avaliable in torque I've just started using Codeweaver / TorqueDev, and I can't get debuggin to work. Can anyone point m... read more 01/10/2006 (1:43 am)
Any tutorials? This page contains links to various tutorials: http://www.garagegames.com/developer/torque/tge/ ... read more 01/03/2006 (2:38 am)
Any tutorials? These tutorials are pretty good: http://www.codesampler.com/torque.htm#Tutorial%20Base... read more 01/01/2006 (6:19 am)
Creating levels without terrain I'd also like to know how to remove the terrain, I'm hoping that I can get things to run on some rea... read more 01/01/2006 (6:16 am)
Orkvale - The eve of Battle I just registered too on your site too. My username is mfosker and as you can see I own the SDK as w... read more 01/01/2006 (6:14 am)
Truncated images I'm seeing the same thing ( I think ). The right hand side of the images is being cropped. I'm usin... read more 12/30/2005 (12:40 pm)
Making a legal set up. Go and see these people. [url]http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/[/url] I made an appointment to see m... read more 12/21/2005 (5:35 am)
Unread posts pages sometimes don't show I'm finding that unread posts from some forums show up in the list, but not from other forums. For ... read more 12/20/2005 (6:40 am)
What are the benefits of different compilers? Thanks for all the input, sounds to me like I would be best staying with Visual Studio as I am a bit... read more 12/06/2005 (2:12 am)
3rd person perspective mouse control, possible? :) Thanks, I realised that, it's just that I have no idea what name would be given to a resource lik... read more 10/25/2005 (4:47 am)
3rd person perspective mouse control, possible? Thanks. What's it called / where do I find it?... read more 10/25/2005 (3:54 am)
Minimum Spec? Thanks for all the help and comments. I should clarify that I am not actually planning on doing a ... read more 10/20/2005 (5:07 am)
Minimum Spec? Thanks for the replies, I did look at the console log, and I compared it to the one that is on my ... read more 10/17/2005 (2:48 pm)
Minimum Spec? I'm aiming at sub 500Mhz pentiumII, 64 - 128Mb RAM with very old gfx cards, 2-8mb I'm not really s... read more 10/17/2005 (9:20 am)