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Seem like this would be a cool project to collaborate with the guys that are creating the community fork of the Torque3D engine code named "Project GREED MIT".

Some links:
http://greed.torque3d.net/
http://www.garagegames.com/community/fo ... ead/135730
http://www.moddb.com/engines/greed-tech-mit

*hrmm* this GREED initiative seems to have died a quicker death than I expected

Maybe RotC could become the center or community open-source FPS development on Torque3D instead? The main community of Torque3D is too fractured & based on closed source commercial interests to really feel like a home for open-source development...

Sad, but not unexpected, as Torque3D really needs to be heavily customized for a particular game. So the idea of a *definitive* universal Torque3D engine does not really work imho. Better just to have a collection of resources that can be integrated into base Torque3D and modified as needed depending on the kind of game.

Hmm, will RotC allow for easy modding at some point? What I mean is similar to Quake engines, e.g. have a sub directory and you can start your mod via the menu or with a parameter on the executable.

Eh, I reckon that full forks are very harmful. A better Torque3D-based game engine would be implemented as a set of scripts on TOP of core Torque3D, otherwise it's bound to fail.

I don't think that's a goal of OpenRotC to be a game engine... though it could certainly be a showcase-worthy FPS game! That's the goal, isn't it?

Julius {l Wrote}:Hmm, will RotC allow for easy modding at some point? What I mean is similar to Quake engines, e.g. have a sub directory and you can start your mod via the menu or with a parameter on the executable.

Depends on what you understand by "easy"
You can easily tell the engine to load up a whole bunch of different scripts. But if you need to do something that can't be done using scripts you're forced to modify the engine.

Evropi {l Wrote}:Eh, I reckon that full forks are very harmful. A better Torque3D-based game engine would be implemented as a set of scripts on TOP of core Torque3D, otherwise it's bound to fail.

I don't think that's a goal of OpenRotC to be a game engine... though it could certainly be a showcase-worthy FPS game! That's the goal, isn't it?

Yeah OpenROTC is not meant the be a game engine, just a game that has one. But I'm trying to keep it somewhat easy to integrate OpenROTC's modifications to Torque3D into other Torque3D-based games.