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by Timlon · in · 02/22/2005 (9:11 am) · 2 replies

Hi,

After seeing the lovely lighting demo I just had to buy this pack :)

I am new (2 days) to the whole Torque thing so want to check I am heading in the right direction - I have replaced my previous sdk with the one that comes with the lightintg pack - is this the right thing to do? Is the lighting pack supplying the latest (release) code for the engine? If not, which files are the ones the lighting pack needs?

Thanks :)
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Torque 3D Owner Stephen Zepp
#1
02/22/2005 (10:28 am)
Yes, the Lighting Pack installer is the same underlying code as the base TGE 1.3 installer, with the Lighting Pack modifications already applied. You are fine using the files from the SLP installer directly, without needing the 1.3 installer files (you can use them for reference however).

Things become a touch more complicated if you were to purchase the RTS SK for example, as it also is modified code on top of stock 1.3. At that point, you would need to decide to merge the RTS SK modifications into the Lighting Pack base, or the other way around.

There are quite a few applications out there (WinMerge, BeyondCompare, UltraEdit to name a few) that can assist with any future merges you need to do, or you could go the source code management system (CVS, SVN, etc.) concept as well.

For now however, you are fine using the Code installed with the Lighting Pack! You may want to copy over some of the starter script directories, but other than that you are good to go.

Torque Owner Timlon
#2
02/22/2005 (10:38 am)
Great - thanks for your help and advice Stephen :)