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360 degree panoramas. Are they possible?

by Andrew Oldham · in General Discussion · 01/09/2007 (3:19 pm) · 4 replies

Hi to everyone out there.
I'm a prospective purchaser looking to find the right game engine to build my game. I'm looking to make a point and click adventure game like Myst 3 or 4 were the player can view a complete BUBBLE panorama or maybe even just a regular 360 degree panorama for navigation. Is it possible to accomplish this with Torque Game Builder Pro? If not can I get a plugin to make such a concept work or not? My main goal is to sell it on PC and possibly X-Box Live. I like how Torque has that kind of flexibility. If it is just impposible does anyone have any suggestions? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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#1
01/09/2007 (3:33 pm)
It's not designed for that, but you could use TGB to do something similar and simply wrap around. You will not get the rounded perspective shift, however.
#2
01/09/2007 (3:48 pm)
Although it is possible to do this in Torque, it's more suited for realtime 3d games (I'm not sure about TGB as I don't own it, but it certainly looks like it might be suitable). You might want to try out
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Adventure Maker or Pipmak for a more suitable pre-rendered adventure solution, although to my knowledge neither of these support Xbox development.
#3
01/09/2007 (3:56 pm)
Adventure Maker is a nice, easy-to-use product. The PSP support is limited by the browser support, so do not let that be your excitable selling point. It is great for PC production, though. I prefer VBScript to the AGS scripting language.

Didn't know about PipMak, though. I'll have to play with it.
#4
01/10/2007 (9:53 am)
Hey guys,

Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it. I'm going to checkout those suggestions. Again thanks David. Thanks Mincetro. If there is anything else I'm all eyes.

Later

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