 | Torque for Artists The Torque Art Creation Homepage Welcome to the new Torque Artist Site. Check back frequently for new updates. |
Getting Involved. This site is not just here to educate you about Torque art, but to help you make the connections you will need to be successful. There are hundreds of programmers in the GarageGames community desperate for a good artists to help them fufill their dreams. Be on the lookout for potential teams, or try your hand at content pack creation.
- Art Store - Get art tools and pre-made content for your Torque project
- Artist Community Resources
- DTS Exporters for Modelers
- Torque Show Tool Pro for testing your models
- DIF Conversion for Mappers
- Torque's Built-in Editors
- Torque Art Public Forums: New! This is an area dedicated specifically to the Torque content creation pipeline. Be sure to subscribe to this forum so that new posts will show up in your Unread Posts listing.
- Creative Development Forums: General discussion of the creative side of game creation. This forum is not Torque specific but has been used for Torque questions in the past due to a lack of Torque-specific art forums.
- Art Snapshots: New! Post images of your best artwork here for
community feedback. Anything goes, from concept art to in-game shapes and level designs. Note: currently this snapshot gallery does not allow comments to be posted on the images, hopefully that will be fixed soon. In the meantime, please use the Showoff section of the Torque Art forums to discuss the snapshots.
DTS (Dynamix Three Space) shapes are used for character models, weapons, vehicles, trees, and other detailed objects in your scene. This format allows incredible detail and complex animation capabilities, but simplifies collision to a bounding box or few convex brushes.
Below is a list of supported 3D modelling packages, with links to their associated exporters and documentation. For a detailed overview of features supported by each application, see the DTS Exporter Feature Chart.
| Software | DTS Exporter Plugins | Documentation / Support |
Included with exporter. GarageGames Forums | ||
Included with exporter. GarageGames Forums | ||
SuperPNG Photoshop Plugin |
The essential trouble-shooting tool for Torque artists. TST Pro is a 3D visualization tool for the Torque Game Engine. It helps artists and programmers inspect their DTS files for esthetic and technical accuracy by simulating the in-game environment, and providing easy access to behind-the-scenes structures. 30 day demo available, full version $34.95. Additionally, Torque Showtool Pro is now included with Torque 1.5, or the 1.5 Upgrade!
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DIF (Dynamix Interior Format) shapes are used for large, static shapes that characters can enter into and collide with in a detailed manner, such as buildings. This format is based on convex brush construction, and uses a number of optimization tricks to boost culling and collision performance.
DIF format is slightly different than DTS format, in that the exporter used depends on the version of Map format from which you are exporting, rather than the specific application you export from. For a list of more software available for DIF creation, see the DIF Exporter Feature Chart.
| DIF Conversion Software | Map Formats | Documentation |
Quake 1, Quake 2, Quake 3 (non-brushdef version), Valve220 (Quake Army Knife, WorldCraft, Radiant, GLB, maya2map, and more...) | QuArK Documentation by QuArK Team Online Documentation by GarageGames Online Documentation by Desmond Fletcher Support Forum | |
Quake 1, Quake 2, Quake 3 (non-brushdef version), Valve220 (Quake Army Knife, WorldCraft, Radiant, GLB, maya2map, and more...) | ||
Torque has built-in editing tools for level design and user interface creation. Hotkeys have been assigned to opening these editors in the TGE Demo.
| Editor | Hotkey | Documentation |
Mission Editor / Terrain Editor | F11 | Online
Documentation by GarageGames |
| GUI Editor | F10 | Online Documentation by GarageGames |
