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Any way to add 3D mesh to 2D scene?

by John Kanalakis · in Torque X 2D · 12/12/2006 (10:54 am) · 10 replies

In TGB, I could add a 3D .dts mesh into the level and animate it. Is there any equivalent (or any future plans) of that functionality in TGBX? Full 3D support, like the MarbleBlast demo at Gamefest would be ideal - but just getting a 3D shape to render in a 2D scene would be a great start.
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    Torque Owner Leroy Frederick
    #1
    12/12/2006 (11:11 am)
    Quote:3D support is in the works, but is not available with this release.

    Torque Owner John Quigley
    #2
    12/12/2006 (2:28 pm)
    We have a crack team of experts working on 3D rendering in the 2D scene at the moment. Not sure when it will show up in a release, possibly 1.0, but we'll see.

    Torque Owner Pauliver
    #3
    12/12/2006 (2:29 pm)
    **edit** GG got to a better answer first...

    Torque Owner Jason Cahill
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    #4
    12/12/2006 (2:47 pm)
    John - can you comment on whether DTS will continue to be the format going forward? For those of us that have a tools pipeline for DTS, it would seem a shame to move to something else. Perhaps we can get a lossless converter to DTSX if there is a new format?

    Associate John Kanalakis
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    #5
    12/12/2006 (2:49 pm)
    John Q. - That's great news on the 3D front, Thank You!!!

    Torque Owner John Quigley
    #6
    12/12/2006 (4:49 pm)
    We don't plan to move away from DTS, and at the moment, our DTS format is the same as the C++ engines. If anything, we'll support additional formats, such as the built-in formats supported by XNA, but its doubtful that we would drop DTS.

    DIF support is a bit questionable. We don't have any plans to implement dif rendering support in TX. However, we'll probably provide a tool to either convert DIF files into whatever format we end up using, or re-export from the .maps to the new format. And tools like constructor can be expected to export interior geometry in that format as well. The interior format might be a modified form of DTS, but we haven't decided yet...kind of up in the air at this point.

    Torque Owner Anton Bursch
    #7
    12/12/2006 (6:31 pm)
    @John Quigley

    Whoa... so Constructor will be able to be used to make TorqueX games?!

    Torque Owner John Quigley
    #8
    12/12/2006 (8:59 pm)
    Constructor makes geometry, and at some point you'll be able to load that geometry in torque X.

    Torque Owner Ken Lane (3Dsolve)
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    #9
    12/13/2006 (2:46 pm)
    My company will be releasing a 3D casual game in Q3 of 2007, and we were planning on TorqueX. Is there a suggested path that we can take to get started? Something like, "Use TGE and then porting to TorqueX".

    Is there any information on when the release with 3D is expected??

    Torque Owner Matthew Harris
    #10
    12/13/2006 (3:31 pm)
    You can still use XNA's 3D support in your torqueX apps.