Author Topic: How capable is the newest Torque3D for making a car game? (Read 1103 times)

Insert Name Here� · October 04, 2016, 11:17:01 PM

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Recently I've been wanting to create my own sort of driving game, except with more story and more indepth characters and car customization than other racing games of the sort (it'll be a street-racing game too)

I've been wondering one thing though, how capable would the newest build of Torque 3D be for this type of game? I'm wanting to use Torque mainly because in my opinion, its script language is much easier for me to understand, the engine is completely free and open source (iirc), and is more fit for a car game than Unreal is, and is more capable than Unity.

Thanks for any answers I get!

No, I won't "use a better engine", because the "better engines" cost money, which I do not have, and I'll have a harder time understanding the script languages.

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ZombieDude · October 05, 2016, 12:13:29 AM

Quote from: Insert Name Here� on October 04, 2016, 11:17:01 PM

No, I won't "use a better engine", because the "better engines" cost money, which I do not have, and I'll have a harder time understanding the script languages.

unreal engine 4 is free, 10x better than torque3D, uses the language that torquescript is based off of (c++), and has an actually alive community
trust me you really shouldn't use torque3D when much better alternatives exist

Insert Name Here� · October 05, 2016, 12:19:51 AM

Quote from: ZombieDude on October 05, 2016, 12:13:29 AM

unreal engine 4 is free, 10x better than torque3D, uses the language that torquescript is based off of (c++), and has an actually alive community
trust me you really shouldn't use torque3D when much better alternatives exist

Except from what I've been reading and seen, not a single car game for Unreal has been released so I have zero idea on how well the game will preform on it. I've seen videos of people making the vehicles in Unreal, and they preform like utter trash every time.

I'm going with Torque3D because I know just how well the game can simulate vehicle physics and such. (take a look at BeamNG for example) I feel more safe going with Torque than with Unreal mainly with that purpose, and I've heard how much of a pain it is to compile stuff with Unreal as well.

Also Unreal requires an Epic Games account to get it, which iirc Torque 3D doesn't. Plus I've heard that UE4 also takes a larger cut of the earnings than what Torque would take. Also, I'd like to aim to make my game as performance friendly as it can get, and with Unreal Engine, I've noticed how hard quite a few games and such from the engine can take a hit on a computer's hardware, while Torque is much easier for all sorts of lower-end computers to run.

I'm really hard set in staying with Torque, thanks for the suggestion though.

ZSNO · October 05, 2016, 12:44:17 AM

Quote from: Insert Name Here� on October 05, 2016, 12:19:51 AM

Except from what I've been reading and seen, not a single car game for Unreal has been released so I have zero idea on how well the game will preform on it.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/hardware-rivals-ps4/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/406350/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/417430/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/368740/

Quote from: Insert Name Here� on October 05, 2016, 12:19:51 AM

I've seen videos of people making the vehicles in Unreal, and they preform like utter trash every time.

I've played Blockland kart racing before.

Quote from: Insert Name Here� on October 05, 2016, 12:19:51 AM

I'm going with Torque3D because I know just how well the game can simulate vehicle physics and such. (take a look at BeamNG for example)

They custom made the physics engine for that. Default T3D does not have it.

Quote from: Insert Name Here� on October 05, 2016, 12:19:51 AM

I feel more safe going with Torque than with Unreal mainly with that purpose, and I've heard how much of a pain it is to compile stuff with Unreal as well.

I've heard it's a pain to modify anything in T3D due to very old code and coding practices.

Quote from: Insert Name Here� on October 05, 2016, 12:19:51 AM

Also Unreal requires an Epic Games account to get it, which iirc Torque 3D doesn't.

Literally takes 5 seconds to make an account.

Quote from: Insert Name Here� on October 05, 2016, 12:19:51 AM

Plus I've heard that UE4 also takes a larger cut of the earnings than what Torque would take.

You're not going to be making a game that someone would buy for a long time.

Quote from: Insert Name Here� on October 05, 2016, 12:19:51 AM

Also, I'd like to aim to make my game as performance friendly as it can get, and with Unreal Engine, I've noticed how hard quite a few games and such from the engine can take a hit on a computer's hardware, while Torque is much easier for all sorts of lower-end computers to run.

Depends on what you do and how you do it

Quote from: Insert Name Here� on October 05, 2016, 12:19:51 AM

I'm really hard set in staying with Torque, thanks for the suggestion though.

That's the wrong choice.

beachbum111111 · October 05, 2016, 12:51:30 AM

Torque is the devil. Do not go down the rabbit hole.

Insert Name Here� · October 05, 2016, 12:52:11 AM

Im sticking with T3D and that's final goddamnit. I'd like some non-biased info about torque please.

If you're just going to force me to convert to an engine that does not fit my needs nor interests at all, then please leave.

ZSNO · October 05, 2016, 12:53:05 AM

Quote from: Insert Name Here� on October 05, 2016, 12:52:11 AM

Im sticking with T3D and that's final goddamnit. I'd like some non-biased info about torque please.

If you're just going to force me to convert to an engine that does not fit my needs nor interests at all, then please leave.

Quote from: Badspot on October 04, 2016, 04:46:18 AM

Insert Name Here� · October 05, 2016, 12:54:56 AM

forget this I'll ask somewhere else. Thanks for the loving help on realising how idiotic my idea was to ask about a game engine.

forget you guys