GarageGames Forum News - May 27th

Submitted:	David Montgomery-Blake
Posted:	May 27, 2008
Synopsis:	Latest in the GG Forums.
Keywords:	garagegames instantaction torque forum

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Cool Stuff
Kork on Ice
Good start to a drawBitmapRotated conversion to TGEA 1.7
Helpful hints for TGE Mac devs from Joshua Brown
Interesting discussion on TGEA and future desires (with an excellent--and long!--post by Matt Fairfax)
Seth Willits updated the shooter tutorial to TGB 1.7.3
Top-Down shooter setup tutorial (TGB)
TGB Main Menu Loading Tutorial
GiMP Normal Map plug-in
Networking overview page on TDN (compiled by Seth Willits)
Very cool write-up on Vectors, Matrices, and Quaternions by Russell Bishop

GameBase.DLL in Delphi for additional functionality in Torque
Fixing baked shadows on ShadowCasterObjectType like tsstatic
Ubuntu 8.04 compile error solved with GCC 4.2.3
A very informative topic on Megaterrains and ATLAS terrains
HSB -> RGB conversions for TGB
CG Tutorial now available for free online
Informative topic on networking in TGE with Mark Dynna and company
TGB Splash Screen Tutorial
AFX 1.1.2 for TGEA 1.7.0 - Beta 1 now available!
Chris Calef releases his BHV resource for TGE

Chris Calef's Blog about the release
TGB 1.7.3 Pro + Unicode support + new fixes by Nelson A. K. Gonsalves
Interesting Discussion on Leadwerks Engine 2.0 versus TGEA (and others)
Information on CubeMapping in TGEA by Lorne McIntosh

TGEA GUI Updates by Philip O'Shea

Dynamic Day/Night System by Matt Vitelli

Here is a YouTube video demonstrating the skybox system.
Here is a YouTube video demonstrating the terrain shadowing updates.

Marble Blast Gold: The Movie (by Matan)
YouTube video of Matan's MBG: The Movie!

Wicked Sweet Projects
Kansen

Beta of XenoSola

Yummy Drink Factory

Very cool Western-themed project from Black Skull Studios

Yard Sale Junky by Eyal Erez

Plastic Games co-op Zombie game

Awesome Artists and Musicians
Eduardo Dias Favero shows off his portfolio

Justin Woodman shows off some of his organic models!

DexSoft Games Releases a Vegetation Pack

Adrian Scolari

Sticks & Twigs: RRGTS Environment Pack from ReallyReallyGoodThings

DexSoft releases their Barrels and Crates pack for free!

Kevin Epps requests feedback on music
Leven 1's new demo reel
Japp Viser's new demo reel

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Michael Perry (May 27, 2008 at 19:59 GMT)

The Torque powered games showcased are all promising and very cool.

Youtube certainly got its fair share of Torque vids too =)

David Montgomery-Blake (May 28, 2008 at 18:00 GMT)

Everyone should check out the MBG movie that Matan put together. It's friggin' huge and pretty damn sweet gameplaying!

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