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AelxProter · Member Joined: 05 Jul 2010 Posts: 1

I have been looking for a way to make complex DIF files for use with Torque. I found DeleD which looks like my savior, but I can't find a working version of the Torque Exporter. Is there a way for me to purchase this or has it stopped being used completely? It looks like some people have it, but I can't find it?

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trucker2000 · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:07 pm Post subject:

Hi Alex. Welcome to DeleD.
The torque exporter is here
It says on the page that it's still $14.00, but since it's been opensourced, it should be free now.
Now, as for making "complex interiors", that's not possible with the dif format. All interiors must be bsp compatible. (in other words, a box) If you keep your interiors simple, you can import them into torque constructor and add dts objects to it, to give you that complexity. If your object is too complex, the torque exporter here will just crash. I've been trying to find some time to look at the source to see if I can add functionality to it, but havent had the time.
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Jeroen · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:39 am Post subject:

Hi Aelx, welcome! Smile

Indeed, the plugin will be made open source shortly (+ we really have to get rid of the 14 dollar price tag asap Wink

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harper · Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 7:18 pm Post subject:

As i took Torque in my inner cirlce of choice, i am also highly interested in this exporter. Is anyone carrying it to open-source, i mean to give me an installable one? Please help a victim of abandoned software.

trucker2000 · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 1:33 am Post subject:

Harper, which version of torque are you using? If tge or tgea, the exporter works well. For torque 3D, they don't support the .dif format anymore. You can import it, but then have to convert it to collada then allow t3d to convert it to dts. (which doesn't always work)
I have pretty much quit using dif and just export to collada, then import into milkshape to export to dts.

@Jeroen, has the price tag been removed?
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Jeroen · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 6:37 am Post subject:

harper · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 5:43 pm Post subject:

Thanks Guys,
the collada import is easy enough for me, so there is no really need of a more comfortable way to DeleD2Torque.
I am testing around "Torque3D" as its demo version. It allows saving, multiple scenes, and i haven't seen any time limits up to now.
I judged a dozen of engines and especially their editors. Torque satisfies me with importing models and textures within 1-2 days, has 2 road editors
(decal and mesh), water planes AND multiple river-editors that work, skyboy and sun within minutes and so on.
Even an animation tool is integrated. GUI-editors and, and....
At the moment i read through several forums (which is not half hte fun reading YOUR all posts) with the guess, i have to pay a little money to get some more comfotable content-creating-ease. But, if i get the 3rd-person-problem solved and have the first "interaction" of my hero with my world, maybe i will get infected with the game-maker-virus.
In an environment which allows the step in this phase, with writing some "scripts" in a specific language, could catch me.
Otherwise i swear i will never use a classic compiler. I hate them all. Altering the code of the engine itself is a "never-happen".
I have contact to a group of game-devs, that just switch from Ogre to Unreal. After making some demo-meshes for them, this change occurs. Sure i tried to get familiar with the "UDK" - with no success. As in NeoAxis, i don't get my models to my eyes with all that fantastic new material features. The Unreal-material-editor is awful, and i even don't like this hyper-real-look of rendered objects. My style is heavy based on the pore texture, although i would like to add some reflections etc.
The look of my models made with DeleD in the Torque3D-view is not perfect, but i give it a ty for some additional time.
When all is cleared, a long time of converting all that stuff to Torque will take some time - but if i can push it to a "explorable for visitors"-world that would be great.
Finally one question (again) Anyone using Torue3D out here?

trucker2000 · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:18 am Post subject:

Torque 3D will work well for the type of world you are making. If you aren't making an fps type game, the default animations will need changing, (there are 2 types of animation sets included with torque) but that's a trivial task.
Another thing you missed is the new animated material. It replaced the clunky Image File Lists.

harper · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:31 pm Post subject:

Hi Trucker,
my problem? i know this expands the plugin-forum. But this one sentence must be OK:
I started a new scene from scratch, imported successfully one of my terrains and a house, got my textures in, mady my sky and replaced the little boring water-plane from Freeworld with a editable river; but i don't get the player-avatar (Gideon) working; can't take control of him.
It will be missing one or two simple associations that is not in my mind....

trucker2000 · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:41 pm Post subject:

I've answered you over there as it seems the best place. Smile

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harper · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:48 am Post subject:

Oh! The collada-exporter has no "smooth vertex normals"-option. That's bad.
Will the Torque-exporter have this?
Does anybody knows?
Or - is there another way of smoothing faces/edges ?

harper · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:15 pm Post subject:

No answers, again?
I fear it's the same old bug as when i showed my cathedral pictures?!?

I asked about "smoothing vertex normals" within the collada-exporter. No guess, what to do?
Come on, community, i know you better!!!

Jeroen · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:23 pm Post subject:

I think it's not something that's easy to build into that exporter. It will be hard to find a developer willing to give it a shot. Confused

Perhaps fik can help out again?
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harper · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 4:19 pm Post subject:

That's bad news.

Look here; you know my home-town Meynheim, and you have discussed the short legs of the horse.
Now you see it in Torque with no smoothing:

This can't be the solution. I'm down to 30 fps and can't refine the models.
Think about "market day" where i have to display a hundereds of rounded models...

Oh, oh....

Jeroen · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 5:34 pm Post subject:

But.... doesn't Torque compute vertex normals itself?
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