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Installing Torque games?

by Noah Gibbs · in General Discussion · 01/30/2007 (11:08 am) · 7 replies

I've never used Torque/TGB before and am (early) in the evaluation process. How easy is it to make an installer for a TGB game on Win32? MacOSX? Is there some kind of example installer that ships with TGB? Does TGB require just a couple of DLLs/.dynlibs, or are there more dependencies?

Also, can you write in C/C++ for TGB basic, or do you need to go for TGB Pro and get source to use anything other than TorqueScript?

Thank you in advance for your time.
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Torque 3D Owner Jonathon Stevens
#1
01/30/2007 (11:50 am)
You can find easy installers no matter what engine/language you use, a simple google search will render many available to you. If you are using vs.net, you can use the installer projects that are built in to build an installer using the windows installer.


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Noah Gibbs
#2
01/30/2007 (11:52 am)
Sure. Mostly I'm curious about Torque's dependencies. Is it just a single shared object that it needs, and that can be in the current directory? Does it need a .DLL or .dynlib installed in a specific location? On Linux, does it require a bunch of other libraries that need to be installed via .rpm/.deb/etc?

Though you've answered the question "does it come with an example installer" with what sounds like a "no". Which is fair enough.

Employee David Montgomery-Blake
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#3
01/30/2007 (12:08 pm)
Everything that it needs is compiled into the project directory and packaged.

It comes with a packaging utility, but not an installer.

You have to have a pro license to use C++ with the engine.

Associate Manoel Neto
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#4
01/30/2007 (12:13 pm)
We shipped 6 TGE games. There are no external dependencies, and nothing needs to be installed outside the game installation folder. It also won't mess with the Windows registry.

Noah Gibbs
#5
01/30/2007 (12:15 pm)
Manoel: thanks! This is very much what I wanted to know.

Torque Owner Very Interactive Person
#6
01/30/2007 (12:34 pm)
Even though you don't really need an installer, its good to create one anyway. I use NSIS (free), a bit hard to learn (but there are some good examples around), and windows only, but works great.

Torque Owner Alfred Norris
#7
02/01/2007 (11:08 am)
If you're looking for a decent installer package, check this link: here.

It's cross-platform, easily modified by even a novice user, and it would even allow you to give users patches, changing only the needed files and not a full re-download.

Enjoy!