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Is there a way to just evaluate Torque without paying for it?

by Bryan Edds · in General Discussion · 10/13/2003 (9:20 pm) · 2 replies

I am already heavy into programming with the Q game engine (www.qubesoft.com), but I am interested in learning about Torque in case I would like to switch. The main thing I'd like to see is Torque's API, and see how good its documentation is as well as some example code. I can't find any of these things on the website, so it makes me guess that I would have to buy the SDK in order to get it.

Now, I am totally happy to see that the cost of Torque is really affordable to indie developers. But I can't really see myself paying $100 just to evaluate the API and the documentation. I am wondering if there is any way to access these things from GG without paying the fee to actually use Torque itself. If not, than I will probably continue to use Q, and unfortunately never get to see all the wonderful things I could have done with Torque :(

#1
10/13/2003 (9:43 pm)
Download Realm Wars, Marble Madness, Legends, Orbz....etc, etc. You can't change the source code, but you can mess with scripts and the map editor.

-EricF
#2
10/13/2003 (11:13 pm)
You can also view a limited subset of the docs.

www.garagegames.com/docs/torque/

It isn't so much an API as a framework you develop within.