Welcome to the Torque Game Engine Demo. This is a demo of the features available in the Torque Game Engine, an extremely affordable, full featured game engine technology from GarageGames.com, Inc.
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The Torque Game Engine (TGE) is the game engine that powers Tribes 2 developed by Dynamix. TGE is a full featured AAA title engine with the latest in scripting, geometry, particle effects, animation and texturing, as well as award winning multi-player networking code. Check out the feature list for more details. For $150 per programmer, you get the source to the engine of a major product from a major game publisher! Not possible? Check the FAQ for the details.
The application is released on both the Windows (Windows 2K/XP) and Mac OS X platforms. See the following OS specific sections for more information.
Under windows the engine will run either OpenGL or DirectX. OpenGL and DirectX drivers are typically bundled together by video card manufactureres and are constantly being updated. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your particular video card.
The demo may be run in two modes: with or without the client interface. Running the client graphics interface is the default behavior. Running the app. in "dedicated" mode skips the graphics and client interface initialization. This mode is used to run dedicated game servers and consumes less resources, but is not directly playable. You must connect to a dedicated server using another instances of the demo app running in client mode. Example of dedicated mode using command line arguments:
cd "c:\Program Files\Torque Game Engine Demo" demo -dedicated -mission demo\data\missions\stronghold.mis
Games (servers) can also be hosted through the client interface, and a client may play the game being hosted.
Note: for Mac users, command line arguments can be placed in a text file called maccmdline.txt in the same directory as the demo executable.
demo [-fullscreen] [-windowed] [-noSound] [-openGL] [-directX] [-autoVideo] [-prefs file] [-dedicated] [-mission mission] [-log level] [-mod modName] [-game gameName] [-show shapeFile] [-console] [-jSave file] [-jPlay file] [-jDebug file] [-help]
| -fullscreen | Run in fullscreen mode | |
| -windowed | Run in a window | |
| -noSound | Dsisable sound | |
| -openGL | Use the OpenGL driver | |
| -directX | Use the DirectX driver | |
| -autoVideo | Autodetect the video driver | |
| -prefs | Load the given config file | |
| -dedicated | Run as a dedicated server | |
| -mission mission | Load the given mission. | |
| -log level | Set the log level = [0,1,2] | |
| -mod modName | Load the specified mod | |
| -game gameName | Load the specified game, clears all previously loaded mods | |
| -show [file.dts] | Start the Show mod and optionally load the specified file | |
| -console | Start up a seperate console window | |
| -jSave file | Record a journal | |
| -jPlay file | Play back a journal | |
| -jDebug file | Same as jPlay, except that a debug break (int3) is issued when the journal ends | |
| -help | Display this help to the console |
The client default key bindings for the demo game. The script file which binds these keys can be found in the torque/fps/client/scripts/default.bind.cs file. Here are some of the current bindings:
| Movement | ||
| w | Forward | |
| s | Backward | |
| a | Left | |
| d | Right | |
| space | Jump / Brake | |
View Control |
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| e | Zoom | |
| r | Set Zoom FOV | |
| TAB | First/Third person | |
| alt c | Toggle between camera and player | |
Chat Messaging |
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| u | Send chat message | |
Misc. Functions |
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| Ctrl-O | In-game options dialog | |
| F1 | In-game help dialog box | |
| F2 | Score board | |
Mission Editing |
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| F7 | Switch contol to the player and position him at the camera | |
| F8 | Switch contol to the camera and position it at the player | |
| F9 | Toggle between outline, interior debug, and normal rendering modes |