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Need help with Terrain Editor

by Rodney (OldRod) Burns · in Torque Game Engine · 08/26/2001 (4:58 am) · 1 replies

Can someone point me to a good tutorial for using the Terrain Editor and Terraformer?

I've looked at Zear's tutorial and the directories appear to be different under V12, so that one doesn't work when I try to follow through it.

I never played or edited Tribes 1 or Tribes 2, so I don't have any background in this editor at all. Anyone got some help for a complete newbie in Terrain editing? :)

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08/27/2001 (2:49 am)
Hi,

One thing I recommend is to pick up a copy of Tribes 2 - and I'm not a Sierra employee. :-)

The Terrain editor in the current V12 build crashes all the time -- T2's is much more stable. Hopefully on a future build...

Plus you can use the Scripts and such from T2 as references for your own game code (note that licensing the V12 does *not* give you rights to use T2 scripts and textures etc. though).

As far as tutorials, the Tribes 2 community is very small. I have been part of the Unreal Tournament community for a few years, and its peer support is much larger. Prior to purchasing the V12 I checked out PlanetTribes.com and other sites, and the peer network is very small -- almost nothing on tutorials or scripting. Hopefully the licensee area on GG will start to have additional tutorials on the V12.

David