Torque X 3D

Torque X 3D is designed from the ground up to harness the power of XNA. Written entirely in C#, the result is the most powerful C# 3D game engine on the planet. You can code in C#, then run your game in Windows or on your own retail XBox 360 using XNA Game Studio 3.0 and XNA Creator's Club. Torque X is loaded with systems that make debugging, journaling game events and testing features much easier than with XNA Game Studio 3.0 alone.

Your license to Torque X 3D provides you with a 100% complete feature set:

Torque X 3D is built on XNA for deployment on PC and the Xbox 360. Reach millions of Xbox 360 owners by creating your game with Torque X 3D and posting it on the XNA Community Games Channel for anyone to play.

Torque X 3D's World Editor provides an entire suite of WYSIWYG tools for designing and editing a game or simulated environment. The World Editor is fully integrated with the Torque runtime and provides full access to all Torque subsystems allowing for:

• Object placement and manipulation
• Property inspection and editing
• Shader definition and application
• Light instancing, placement, and manipulation
• Seamlessly connected indoor and outdoor scenes
• Asset importation
• Sound and video
• Performance profiling
• No compile time
• Flexible LOD system
• Vast terrains

Torque X 3D's flexible, powerful rendering is as well suited to photorealistic simulation as to achieving a custom, original-looking style. All modern features are supported by the Torque X 3D renderer:

• Per-pixel dynamic lighting
• Normal & parallax occlusion mapping
• Various models of shading
• Volumetric fog and light
• Powerful particle systems: fire, smoke, explosions
• Extensible set of shaders (GLSL / HLSL)
• Post processing
• Depth of Field
• Refraction
• Glow
• Blurring
• Color Correction

Torque X 3D's terrain system is integrated with the runtime with editing support from the World Editor. Import height fields generated in other applications or use Torque X 3D's stock set of procedurally generated terrains. Fogging, lightmaps, and detail textures are all included as part of the engine. And the built-in terrain editor uses clipmaps for hi-res texturing, so you don't need a lot of memory.

Torque X 3D provides support for all major 3rd party art tools including 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, Blender, XSI and Lightwave. Import your models (.dts, .x, .fbx) into a scene and then position them. You can create material definitions, assign components, and specify object types all from the World Editor.

Torque X 3D is built with a component architecture and exposes the assignment of stock and custom components to objects easily within the editor. Simply create a component, send the component file to a friend, and tie the file to the editor. This allows coders and artists to share gameplay elements without ever writing a single script.

Create your game in C#, the mother language of .NET and industry standard. C# was designed to provide the flexibility of C and C++ with built-in pointer manipulation so you can avoid common bugs and memory leaks.

Torque X 3D is built with an abstracted C# Physics API for use with other major 3rd party physics libraries with out of the box support for:

• Rigid body
• Vehicles
• Ragdoll
• Destructible objects
• Particle system physics
• Destroyable joints
• Various vehicles

Torque X 3D provides for fully customizable GUI modules including:

• Widgets, containers and dialogs
• Transparency, animation
• Easy-to-use GUI files
• Skins support
• Support for Eastern languages
• Localization packs support

Torque X 3D supports a wide range of audio features. These include:

• 2D Sound, 3D Sound, Streaming Sound
• SFX/Music driver
• 3D sound support for panning, volume, Doppler, cones
• Multi-channel prioritized SFX manager

Clean, fast, robust C# APIs for Torque X 3D's major systems enable use of any commercial middleware. You can use any 3rd party solution for physics, sound, or create your own custom implementation.

Torque X 3D is available with many different Genre Kits. All Genre Kits combine expert coding with world-class optimized in-game art assets for a quick start to any new project. Choose from:

• FPS
• More coming soon...

Licensees join the 150,000+ Torque developer community and have access to an enormous set of valuable community resources. There are dozens of tutorials and a wealth of learning materials available on the site. Users receive free patch updates throughout the year and free upgrades to minor version releases. Each new release is designed for a seamless project transition.

Paid support is also available via email on a per incident basis. On-site support and training is also available for a fee.