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how about finally upgrading to a new version of torque?
MegaScientifical:
--- Quote from: Niliscro on May 30, 2010, 11:39:20 PM ---First: don't listen to people who are saying "it would take a whole team to do it" or "it would take years". They don't know what they're talking about. However, it's really not that necessary of an upgrade other than some nice extra feature that could be thrown in. Unless a newer version of TGE fixes the whole vehicle collision being stuff, we don't need it.
Second: These things cost money, as it has already been said, so it probably won't happen unless 100% necessary.
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It's either a team of people for a few months of Badspot for a few years. As said, Blockland's engine is highly modified, and to estimate EVERY edit to work in a new engine in a compatibly way is a feat no one will want to go through.
Welknair:
--- Quote from: Niliscro on May 30, 2010, 11:39:20 PM ----Snip-
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As neither of you have stated any sort of credentials, I would go with whoever sounds smarter.
MEGASCIENCE FTW.
Space Guy:
--- Quote from: Brickmaster on May 30, 2010, 10:00:51 PM ---Buildable vehicles!
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Putting the whole thing on a new engine would not magically allow buildable vehicles out of the box since they do not have the BLB rendering system.
To do that would require massive changes to the networking, rendering and the already broken vehicle physics, probably losing 90% of the advantages that currently make building less laggy.
Niliscro:
--- Quote from: MegaScientifical on May 31, 2010, 12:23:54 AM ---It's either a team of people for a few months of Badspot for a few years. As said, Blockland's engine is highly modified, and to estimate EVERY edit to work in a new engine in a compatibly way is a feat no one will want to go through.
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Please, you obviously have no idea. Like someone said on page 1, Badspot could just take code that he wants from the source of an updated TGE and put it into his modded engine. Yet it still costs him money to buy an updated TGE just for these code snippets. This, by no stretch of the imagination, takes years or months. Badspot is making Blockland, not GTA.
Maybe to implement these changes in the form of a Blockland update would take months, but it wouldn't take months simply to update the engine.
fat boy:
so what is the main reason? we still dont know