BeyondCloister
2004.11.25, 08:30 PM
After reading about the new RTS Starter Kit for the Torque Engine I went and bought it.
Why I hear some of you ask. Well I've toyed with various strategy games over the years and the chance to get straight in to do a nice 3D version of Industrial Revolution without having to worry about framerates and other 3D baggage was to much to resist.
I've only had a brief look at it so far and played the sample RTS game that comes with it.
I suspect it is not all going to be plain sailing though :(
It runs a bit slow (on the border of being playable) on my iBook G4 with Raedion 9200 Mobile card (32MB VRAM). However it runs like a dream on my Sony Vaio with the same card but double the VRAM.
Network play runs fine between my iBook and Vaio with either acting as the server. However when I try to join with my iMac it tells me I have the wrong version and does not let me on even though it is the same download as on the iBook :(
I'll be spending the next couple of days going through the Torque Engine documentation before I move on to the RTS stuff. Only then will I be able to give a better verdict on it.
I'll report back more as I progress with it. Hopefully I will get somewhere with it and it will not just turn out to be another purchase that gets discarded after a while like so much game development stuff I've bought over the years.
Why I hear some of you ask. Well I've toyed with various strategy games over the years and the chance to get straight in to do a nice 3D version of Industrial Revolution without having to worry about framerates and other 3D baggage was to much to resist.
I've only had a brief look at it so far and played the sample RTS game that comes with it.
I suspect it is not all going to be plain sailing though :(
It runs a bit slow (on the border of being playable) on my iBook G4 with Raedion 9200 Mobile card (32MB VRAM). However it runs like a dream on my Sony Vaio with the same card but double the VRAM.
Network play runs fine between my iBook and Vaio with either acting as the server. However when I try to join with my iMac it tells me I have the wrong version and does not let me on even though it is the same download as on the iBook :(
I'll be spending the next couple of days going through the Torque Engine documentation before I move on to the RTS stuff. Only then will I be able to give a better verdict on it.
I'll report back more as I progress with it. Hopefully I will get somewhere with it and it will not just turn out to be another purchase that gets discarded after a while like so much game development stuff I've bought over the years.