Totally awsesome tips

#1 Don't poke naked spider chicks in their mandibles.

#2 Uuuuuuh... what's that supposed to mean?

#3 It was a bad joke that he made in order to make his post count go up. It looks like your english may be a bit broken, kinda of hard to understand what your asking. Do you have a specific question?

#4 It was a totally awesome tip.

#5 I knew that TGE came with an Orc, but I had no clue it came with a troll. :P

#6 @David Blake - When I went back to read this post, I see that my comment could have been interpreted differently that I meant. No disrespect intended. It was funnier in my head.

@Will - Fishing for trolls?

#7 BAH! Orcs dont run around with sissy crossbows =)

#8 Uuuuuh... This did not turn out how i thought it would.
JUST GO SUBMIT POSTS AND SUGGESTIONS ON THE "I NEED HELP" POST!
p.s. please?
p.p.s. uum I dont want post counts i want help. I have a lot of questions and i'm just too lazy to
type them right now.

#9 Oh and what in the world are you guys talkin about?

#10 I see what you are asking Taslim, you are wondering where you can go to get help and get started with TGE. I thought that you were just trolling.

Ok, a few things to mention:

1.) Resources are your friend.

Many things that are quite common in games have already been done, and since you are in such a great community, you will undoubtedly find some help. Go to the GarageGames.com menu Community --> Resources. When you do this, you can browse the available resources by category, or you can search through them.

2.) Use the search feature.

GarageGames.com does have a decent search engine, which is powered by Google. Click the "Search" link at the bottom of any page on GarageGames.com. From this engine, you can search keywords via tons of Forum posts, resource posts, documents, and much more. The search feature is great, and I highly recommend that you use it.

3.) There are some good books to check out.

There are a few books that are actually pretty interesting reads that work with TGE. One of them is "The Programmer's Guide to Torque" and can be found at www.garagegames.com/products/87/. Another good one is the "3D Game Programming All-In-One" book, which you can read about at www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.forum.php?qf=118

4.) The forums have some useful, and standardized tags.

There are many tags that you can use when posting in the forums here. It really helps for readability to know how they work.

Some commonly used examples include (please remove the spaces for them to work):

Italicized Word
[ i ] Italicized Word [ /i ]

Bolded Word
[ b ] Bolded Word [ /b ]

//Sample Source Code
function foo (%bar)
{
     //Some Code
     echo("foo" @ %bar);
}

[ code ]
//Sample Source Code
function foo (%bar)
{
//Some Code
echo("foo" @ %bar);
}
[ /code ]

There are many more things that I could comment about, but I will save them for another time. I will edit this post in a few moments to show you some good links to check out if you are just starting with TGE.

[Edit]
Some good links to check out:

www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.forum.php?qf=52
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.forum.php?qf=57
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=62769
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=51854

Also, since I am a huge fan of the AFX pack, I'm going to tell you that it is the best investment that I have made other than the game engine itself. This pack is incredible, and can be used for ALOT more than just spells and RPG style games. I highly recommend you check this out at some point:
www.garagegames.com/products/127/

Regards,

Will Brown

#11 Thank you someone who can really help me! thank you so much i needed those tips.

#12 Always initialize your pointers to NULL.

Best tip ever.

#13 Tip:
-never use exclamation points when asking for help!
-never use multiple exclamation points when asking for help!!!!!
-never use CAPS WHEN ASKING FOR HELP.
-ask and ye shall receive.

#14 Always use GarageGames brand tools and technology.

#15 Use const whenever appropriate.

#16 /em waits for the red circled SEARCH graphic to show up

#17 They say that tengus never steal gold although they would be good at it.

#18 [For Stephen:]

Don't forget you can use the site search!

#19 Thank you sir!

Now to hopefully re-rail a touch:

As I mentioned in another thread, while excitement is good, there is no way you will be able to learn everything you need to know about game development from a single post, no matter how helpful people may be (kudos to Will Brown for sure).

Spend time going through tutorials, studying the book(s) you have, and working with small tasks, and before you know it you'll be moving long in your game dev learning experience :)

#20 Is that joke about naked spider chicks some kind of internal joke on this forum? I belive i have seen it before. And its not too bad of an tip in any case, most spiders gets pissed when you so much as touch they'r mandibles. Spiders are EVIL!