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New project creation problem

by Oswald Mballo · in General Discussion · 01/05/2010 (12:29 am) · 1 replies

I am completely new to Torque. I can't complete the first tutorials in the book "The Complete Guide to Torque X", visual c# express 2008 returns 3 error messages when i hit F5 (start debugging) after creating new project.

From what i can understand from the error messages, some "T2D" nameSpace doesnt exist in the garagames.Torque package while the compiler probably tries to call it in order to build something. As a result the levelData.txscene, which Torque X 2D needs in order to work, was not generated.

I was strictly following the book's instruction but i may need to tell that unlike the book iam using XNA Game Studio 3.1 instead of 3.0, is it possible that something is missing in this version?

I had to install 3.1 because parallel to Torque X iam also learning T3D. The later's setup returned an error that requires XNA Game Studio 3.1 or later. I presumed having 3.1 installed would include anything 3.0 could have done.

I am using Torque X 2D the demo version on windows XP pro sp2. I run visual c# express 2008 and XNA Game Studio 3.1.

Can you please tell me where i was wrong, or if it's not how can i solve this issue?

Thank you

#1
01/09/2010 (2:11 pm)
"You must run Visual C# Express IDE at least one time before installing XNA Game Studio Express. If it is not done, not all of the functionality will be installed. If XNA Game Studio Express was installed prematurely, you will need to unistall XNA Game Studio Express and run Visual C# Express and then exit the IDE. Then you will be able to reinstall XNA Game Studio"

This is from the book "XNA unleashed" by Chad Carter; 2008; P.15

Also on page 16 there is this very useful TIP:

"If you ever uninstall XNA Game Studio Express, you will need to uninstall Visual C# Express first. Otherwise, XNA Game Studio Express will not properly uninstall"