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Torque 3D is the best full source, low cost solution out there. It is also our flagship engine built on the core strengths of our Front Line Award-winning Torque Game Engine Advanced. Torque 3D has been re-architected for maximum flexibility and performance across a wide-range of hardware. Torque 3D comes equipped with a full suite of tools to allow your team to excel and produce high-quality games and simulations. Torque 3D supports Windows and Browser-based web deployment out of the box. Mac not currently fully supported - update on the horizon.

World Editing Suite

The world editor is the central hub for working with Torque 3D. It is the place where artists and level designers produce stunning environments and scripters push the envelope with gameplay logic.

The different editors that are used to put together a game’s levels are incorporated into a central interface.

Shape Editor Preview and play back animations from a scene or asset library. With the Shape Editor an artist can merge animations, define nodes, rename meshes, change positioning, and more.	Terrain Editor Using the terrain editor, designers can sculpt new terrains interactively or import height fields generated in other applications. With the texturing and painting tools, artists can create realistic environments with exquisite attention to detail.	Road & River Editor Quickly prototype city streets and rural roads. Rivers are added easily and designers have direct control of the flow and speed. With the river editor, the artists define the river's path and design and add water to see the water flow come to life.
Material Editor Using the material editor, an artist assembles materials for the game without touching a line of code! A list of materials used on any model can be viewed and edited within Torque 3D. Materials are categorized for ease of organization and can be previewed in the editor. Materials are previewed and changed in real time inside the game.	Particle Editor Torque 3D's particle editor provides stunning real time effects like fireworks and flames. Create a particle emitter, add the textures, and adjust the properties to see fantastic visual effects come to life in the scene.	Decal Editor Using the decal editor, designers can create new decals and paint them on objects in the game. Bullet holes, trailing footsteps, and tagging players are all easy to do in your worlds.

COLLADA Support

Torque 3D was developed with artists in mind. An efficient interface and support for industry standard, COLLADA makes this choice easy. COLLADA is available in most major digital content creation packages. So whether your team is using Max, Maya, SketchUp, or Blender, you have a direct channel to get content into Torque 3D.

We support the OpenCOLLADA standard and recommend the OpenCOLLADA exporters.

LIVE Material Updating

Torque 3D supports live material updating. If a texture is not quite how it should appear in-game, an artist can load it into Photoshop or Gimp to make the needed changes.

The asset appears in the engine with the new changes in real-time. This enables artists to work between applications without interruptions.

Detailed First-Person Arms

Torque 3D 1.2 includes a new system for first-person arms. Artists can now create two separate models and switch between them based on the perspective. For the close-up first-person view, they can create extremely detailed arms. In the third-person view, they can use a model representative of the camera distance and perspective.

Sculpting Terrain

Torque 3D allows your team to create new terrains directly inside the engine. Using the world editor, designers can raise and lower sections to create mountains and valleys.

Combined with the river and road editors, level designers can create complex beautiful environments.

In addition to the ease of creating landscapes, artists can literally paint textures onto the terrains.

Painting Forests

With the forest editor, you can populate your levels with trees and foliage as quickly and easily as painting textures onto the terrain.

Select your object and the size of the area and begin painting trees and plants!

Texture Blending

Torque 3D provides the tools to blend and smooth textures between detail levels, optimizing the visual scene while playing to allow lower-resolution on distant objects and highly detailed textures for close-up viewing.

GIS Data

The simulation industry and large-scale training simulations often need to use Geological Information Survey data. These datasets can be imported into Torque 3D as heightmaps to represent large-scale real-world terrains.

PhysX Integration

Torque 3D ships with PhysX out of the box on Windows. The Pacific demo contains a demonstration of many of the features of the physics engine. Cloth physics, destroyable objects, buoyancy, and many more are available to your team to create believable experiences. Physics has become an increasingly important feature in games and especially in simulations. Torque 3D provides a solid platform for physics simulations.

Here are a few of the PhysX highlights implemented in Torque 3D:

Cloth dynamics
Rigid body dynamics
Destructible objects
Destroyable joints
Fluid buoyancy

On top of PhysX, Torque 3D also includes a rigid body physics system for older hardware and Mac support.

Abstracted Physics API

Torque 3D is designed with an abstracted C++ Physics API for integration with major 3rd party physics libraries.

Advanced Lighting*

Our deferred lighting model is the pinnacle of contemporary real-time rendering. Using Wolfgang Engel's "Light Pre-pass" rendering, Torque's 3D’s advanced lighting can support hundreds of lights and global real-time dynamic shadowing on every object in your scene. Artists can combine this solution with pre-baked light maps or tune Torque's shadow maps for just the right look in a scene

*Currently Windows-only

Basic Lighting

Our classic forward-rendered lighting model performs well on low-end hardware and achieves high production standards. Many of the games designed for mass-market systems use a basic forward lighting system. Light-weight dynamic lighting can be used effectively for maximum impact in tight areas.

pureLIGHT Support

pureLIGHT is a third-party tool for Torque 3D which enhances scenes with high quality, static global illumination. Tonemapping and Vertex Color Lighting allow artists to bake lighting into scenes and integrate with the Advanced Lighting system. Lightmaps are generated in real-time so designers can pause light map generation, make adjustments, and continue during a preview.

Powerful & Flexible

Torque 3D includes a powerful rendering system well-suited to photorealistic simulations as well as custom artistic styles. The Torque 3D renderer includes modern shader features including per-pixel dynamic lighting, normal and parallax occlusion mapping, Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, and more.

Torque 3D's post-effects provide advanced rendering functionality to push the visual limits of the scene. Post-effects allow light rays to shine through windows and eyes to glow in dark caverns. With color correction, an artist can create a visual effect such as adding a sepia tone to provide an old-time feel to the scene.

Rendering Highlights

Modern shader features are supported by the Torque renderer:

Per-pixel dynamic lighting

Normal & parallax occlusion mapping

Reflections

Scattersky system for sun, stars and skies

Powerful fire, smoke, and explosions particle systems

Extensible shaders (GLSL / HLSL)

CustomMaterials system with support for parameter's hierarchy

And much, much more!

Post Effects

Torque 3D also includes a number of post-processing effects on Windows to make your products look even more impressive.

Screen Space Ambient Occlusion

Depth of Field

Light Rays

Lens Flare/Corona Effects

Refraction

Glow

Blurring

Color Correction

Desktop

Torque 3D has a long history of personal computer development and support for a wide-range of hardware.
The introduction of the Intel Atom store and multiple portals such as Steam, BigFish, and RealArcade, desktop deployment is an important target for indies and large studios.

Web

The web has fast become one of the most important marketplaces for new and established developers. With Facebook, MySpace, and Kongregate leading the way in the new social media market, being able to deploy to web browsers is an important target for your games. Torque 3D provides browser-based deployment out of the box.

When you deploy to the web, you can play the game directly in the browser with the same performance level as the desktop application.

Note: streaming is not supported.

Source Code

Having access to the engine's source code is essential when working on a complex project. With a license to Torque 3D, you can rest easy knowing that the engine is fully customizable to suit your team's needs.

Scripting

TorqueScript is a fast, easy to use C++ like scripting language that ties the various elements of a project together. Most game functions can be programmed in TorqueScript. Engine additions such as physics or intense AI coded in C++ can be called from script.

TorqueScript features:

Object-oriented programming

Transparent interconnection with external C++ objects

Built-in fast 3D math (vectors, matrices, and quaternions with all corresponding functions)

Well-documented standard library

3rd Party Middleware

Torque is built with an abstracted C++ Physics API with the ability to be integrated with major 3rd party physics libraries. PhysX is included out of the box for Windows users, but teams can implement whatever physics engine they choose.

Torque also has a C++ Sound API with sample integrations for world-class 3rd party sound libraries such as FMOD. By default, Torque uses the OpenAL and XAudio sound libraries which support a wide range of features. These include 2D Sound, 3D Sound, Streaming Sound, and more.

Multi-player Made Easy

Bandwidth, latency, and packet loss are primary concerns among anyone looking to make a multiplayer, networked game. With Torque 3D, we have worked to tackle these problems effectively and efficiently for your team. Whether optimizing traffic between clients and the server for low-latency on the user end or the amount of data the server needs to process on the server end of the spectrum, Torque 3D was developed with bandwidth concerns in mind.

In any network simulation, packet loss is always a concern. To this end, Torque 3D includes a protocol that allows for consistent packet delivery only on network objects that change during the simulation. To resolve latency issues, Torque 3D includes optimal usage of interpolation, extrapolation, and client-side prediction to synchronize clients during gameplay.

DeathmatchTutorial

Since developing a game is extremely difficult and networking itself is a complex topic, GarageGames decided to release a large-scale FPS deathmatch tutorial with the release of Torque 3D 1.2.

This tutorial takes developers through the basics of creating a solid deathmatch first-person shooter using the engine. It provides solid design choices as well as best-practices when creating combat situations.

The tutorial is located here.

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