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Porting from TGE to TSE

by Robert Harwood · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 03/31/2005 (12:51 pm) · 8 replies

I recently purchased the TGE and have been studying the inner workings, however with all the cool new stuff in TSE I would like to upgrade to that when the time comes. Am I wasting my time playing with TGE in respect to moving to TSE? Will they be similar? (in the scripting etc side of things) and will I be able to apply my TGE knowledge to TSE?

Thanks,

- Rob
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Torque Owner Brian Richardson
#1
03/31/2005 (1:10 pm)
I've found that it has been pretty easy to port things over to TSE. Unless you're making heavy graphic changes on the C++ side, you should be able to port over by:

1. Changing a few prefs in your scripts
2. Converting your OpenGL calls to Gfx calls. For the things I've had to touch, it's been pretty mechanical.
3. Changing your include defintions to match the structure changes that have occurred in TSE.

I've been able to make my C++ stuff compile in both with a compiler define. You can see an example of the rigid shape tweaked to compile under both here.

Like I said, this is for changes / resources that do not do lots of graphic heavy operations.

Hope that helps.

Torque Owner Robert Harwood
#2
03/31/2005 (1:19 pm)
Thanks, so if I modify stuff like "player.cc" etc in the \game directory of the engine can that be easily ported too? (Assuming I dont do heavy graphics stuff in there)

Torque Owner Brian Ramage
Black Jacket Games
#3
03/31/2005 (2:50 pm)
Yes. At the moment we are actually trying to keep TGE and TSE as synched as possible for non-gfx related areas. If you use a diff utility like Beyond Compare, you can get a really clear idea of what has changed between the two engines.

TSE was last synched up to TGE's 1.2 revision, we're going to bring it up to 1.3 in milestone 3.

Torque Owner Prairie Games
Prairie Games, Inc.
#4
03/31/2005 (3:06 pm)
Very cool.

Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
#5
03/31/2005 (3:39 pm)
@Brian - Synched to 1.3 and not the soon to be released 1.4?

Torque Owner Brian Ramage
Black Jacket Games
#6
04/03/2005 (4:15 pm)
We'll have to see how 1.4 shakes out. Still in beta.

Torque Owner Jonathan Rose
#7
04/06/2005 (3:28 pm)
I'm just wondering how the porting issues are going to be affected by the introduction of TSE terrain...

Torque Owner Ron Barbosa
Disposable Fun
#8
04/12/2005 (5:34 am)
I have been curious also about the portability of code/projects. I've been a TGE/TSE owner for a while now, but I have not really had the kind of time I'd like to have in order to truly learn how to use TGE and TSE. I've often wondered if learning TGE would just be a waste of time at this point.

It might be a good idea, once TSE is more mature to introduce a FAQ or a guide to porting projects from TGE to TSE.

This is a good thread with some useful information, thanks all.
--RB