Can Blockland's rendering engine be expanded?

[Aphtonites]

Although of course, this is not a custom engine, it's Torque, but i've always wondered if it's possible to modify the source to edit/expand the rendering engine, since one of the few things i'd love to be in the game would be ambient occlusion, it would be toggable though.

For anyone who doesn't know what i'm talking about by AO.

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[Marcem]

The reason we don't have things like that is because badspot thinks people won't figure out why their game doesn't run on their crap intel chips.  Also, Ambient Occlusion is an insanely expensive technique.

[tails]

Maybe he should add bricks actually having just normal shadows first, Instead of adding fps killing effects.

[Shocklink]

Is it even possible to "Expand" or "Upgrade" Torque?

[Reinforcements]

Is it even possible to "Expand" or "Upgrade" Torque?

I think so.

[Bisjac]

would look sweet. but blockland already has pretty nice graphics for a lego game. maybe blockland2 or something lol

[Shocklink]

I think so.

So you are saying I can just crack open torque, modify it (Let's add shadows for lights) and it would work?

[DontCare4Free]

So you are saying I can just crack open torque, modify it (Let's add shadows for lights) and it would work?

He has the source so yes, that could work.

[Shocklink]

So why hasn't anyone been able to implement it?

[Straton.]

It would be nice to have some form of dynamic lighting, It doesn't have to be amazing but really, inside of a cave in a well lit map shouldn't be as bright as day.

[Night Fox]

I'm sure we could have a lighting system like Minecraft's.

[Rotondo]

Blockland 2: The Sequel, now with extreme HDR and 100x BLOOM.

[MrLoL]

Blockland 2: The Sequel, now with extreme HDR and 100x BLOOM.
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Explain exactly what happen there..

[sir dooble]

Explain exactly what happen there..

The more bloom to the colours in a game, the better the graphics and the better the game.
The less you see, the more you experience!

[Straton.]

Bricks casting shadows on other bricks isn't THAT bad. Unless I'm mistaken and there is some technical twist or practical twist to it that I'm too stupid to understand. I know that the Torque current engine wouldn't be able to be upgraded at this point, and the graphics may be "fine" at where they are, and stupid people probably won't understand why their computers aren't powerful enough to run the game.

But you'd have to agree that having some sort of upgraded brick lighting is some nice wishful thinking.