Is this for me?

#21 Ah, I see how it works. I didn't know how to set the detail/bump texture for the terrain file. The quality improves alot when you apply them. It's a shame that you can't apply a different detail/bump for each different texture, but I can live without that feature for now.

By the way, your terrain looks great. Thats the quality I would like to shoot for.

#22 Cool. Glad to help out.

#23 I like fps creator... yes you can sell as many games as you want.

#24 Brian, FPS Creator isn't an engine. It's a point and click game maker.

#25 I know its not an engine, ive tried the demo before but i have to agree with him on the limitations that fps creator has.

#26 I've purchased TGE 1.5... and with it came alot of "Oh crud, I'm in way over my head, what have I done", type feelings.

For now I can forget about most of the trouble I know I will have in the very near future (including getting my tanks, buildings and characters into the engine... in addition getting a team based gameplay mp mode working... compiling so others can play it etc... eeek). All I want to do now is get 1 of my 18 weapon models working so I can run around with it and shoot it off at my terrain.

The trouble is, I have no idea what I'm doing. I've searched for any and everything related to "weapons" and "guns" (using the search form) and couldn't find a tutorial or "resource" on getting a weapon into the game.

Would anyone here be willing to do the following:
- Animate 1 of my weapons, providing me with the source files (ms3d, max or whatever)
- Create all of the required files for it (.cs and such) so it will work in the engine without me doing anything
- Write a "readme" type file while doing this so I have a guide for my next 17 weapons

Of course I would be willing to pay this person for their time... and when hell freezes over (when my game is released in 2015 ;)) I could give you credits in my game.

#27 Hi Erik,

When I started using Torque (Feb 2004) I had nooooo clue what I was doing. I googled this site, and it had a long list of game engines which caught my interest. I reviewed all of them before making Torque my choice, then purchased it.

Man if I regretted that purchase afterwards. I felt like a idiot for not thinking twice. I had no programming experience at all and I could not even grasp how scripts worked.

Today, Torque feels like a second home. I can go anywhere in the source except the assembly and compiler files and understand perfectly what I am doing. So do not give up, believe in your dream!

#28 Thanks for the encouragement

I didn't have much time to work on my stuff today, but I got something done... using the crossbow as a guide I got my thompson as a weapon somewhat working. I can pick it up - I can't see it when I pick it up yet (still working on it), but it's progress.

#29 What the heak?

#30 Erik, what kind of framerate are you getting? Looks like you're rendering quite a few quads there.

#31 I don't know what my FPS is exactly. I would estimate it to be 30-40'ish.

#32 Bring down the console and type

metrics(fps);

and it will display your Framerate in the top left corner of the screen.
Your work so far looks really nice btw.

#33 I don't know how to bring down the console just yet ;)

#34 Press ~ (above Tab)

#35 Ah I see, FPS is anywhere from 30-50 depending where I'm looking.

#36 That mount point is bringing sexy back.

#37 Looks great Erik!

#38 @ Aaron Ellis Im putting that post in TDN, if you don't mind. Looks like a good Starter FAQ.

#39 @Allyn

That sounds cool. I would add stuff to TDN myself -- except that Wiki formatting really frightens me. ;)