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Noobie difficulties

by Willie Stevenson · in Torque Game Engine · 12/01/2005 (9:51 am) · 5 replies

Hello all,

purchased the indie torque licence a while ago but was too busy to dive in. Now I am trying to but.

when I follow the instructions in the intro tutorial it asks to open the file : Torque/SDK/example run the torqueDemo file and I will open the "start page" WITH THE BIG RED LOGO AND THE "... SET OF HANDY LINKS ATTHE TOP..." but instead it opens up a small playable demo of a couple of buildings and an orc running around that you can shoot. There doesn't seem to be any links to the page as described in the intro tutorial.

I have searched my harddirve for another file with the same name but there isn't one.

i'm sure i'm doing something wrong but at this point I am dead in the water.... (Killing "Kork" just isn't that fun after the first fifty times)

Please help me get off of the starting blocks...

Thanks

Willie

#1
12/01/2005 (10:09 am)
I am using a Mac.
#2
12/01/2005 (10:12 am)
Willie,

What you're seeing is the "starter.fps" game.

If you're working with the new 1.4 release of Torque, goto Start -> Program Files -> Torque -> tutorial.base to get into the tutorial section.

If you want Torque to default to that directory, open up Main.cs

You'll see a line that reads somethig like defaultGame = "starter.fps";

Just change that to tutorial.base, or starter.racing, or even a custom directory if you're wanting to build from scratch.

Hope that helps! =)

P.S.

Just saw you're on a MAC, so much for "start -> program files..." lol.
#3
12/01/2005 (10:15 am)
Thanks
#4
12/01/2005 (10:37 am)
Hi Wille, you can also use the start commands, which work good in the 1.4 version:

RunDemo.command
RunRacing.command
RunFps.command
Launch using show mod.command

( in example folder !!! )

btw. i also use MAC
#5
12/01/2005 (10:49 am)
Discovered my problem...

I had to throw away all the files to do with the DEMO which was already installed. then redownload the real program and start again.

Viola!

I feel foolish.

I was impressed by your quick responses... I'll try to ask better questions from now on.