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Any modifiable Torque games, pay or free?

by Lally Singh · in General Discussion · 01/22/2006 (6:20 pm) · 3 replies

Hey all. I'm doing some performance analysis for Torque (it'll be really extensive), and I'm in
need of hard numbers. I'll actually be in need of hard numbers for a while, but that's not
the biggest issue here. But, to get real numbers, I'm in need of some people playing a game
on the Torque engine. And therein lies the problem: I have the engine and the demo, but I
need something people would be willing to play for a while (say an hour straight). I need
to be able to add in some code to:
- measure how much data's going over the pipe, ghosted or not
- record what players do, to analyze/model later
- measure different values within the engine, like amount of active geometry, textures, etc.
- and lots more as I figure out what's needed

I'm planning to use the built-in profiling where I can, but I need the ability to modify the
engine source.

Are there any games available that I can modify the source to? I'm afraid I could easily
need access to more than the scripting layer has. Also, it'll likely have to be modified
again later to let me run high-playercount simulations (10k-100k) on a supercomputer.

I'm hoping for something free (I can afford a few licenses to a game, (I can write them
off essentially as textbooks), but I don't think I can pay for each of the supercomputer's
CPUs). But, the supercomputer simulation isn't until much later, so I can stall on that
for a while.

Thanks in advance!

#1
01/22/2006 (7:12 pm)
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#2
01/22/2006 (11:16 pm)
Excellent! Any idea if the downloads are going to work again soon?
[edit: CVS doesn't seem to work either]

Thanks so much for the help.
#3
01/23/2006 (2:40 am)
Whats the deal with the RealmWars codebase? Can the code/effects be freely used in other projects?