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Torque Game Engine Advanced is the most easy-to-use next gen 3D game creation platform available. Architected from the ground up for maximum flexibility and performance across a wide range of hardware, TGEA comes equipped with a full suite of tools and APIs to get your game to the finish line, no matter what your goals. And when you create a game in TGEA, you can publish it across multiple platforms like Windows, Mac, Xbox 360, Steam, iPhone and even in your web browser. There are no limits to your game making abilities with TGEA.

Cross Platform, Dual Graphics API

Torque products are built on a common architecture, but optimized per platform. TGEA supports a wider range of platforms than any other modern game engine technology. Build for Mac / PC / Wii / Xbox / iPhone / Web all from the same project.

Mission Editor

TGEA's Mission Editor provides an entire suite of WYSIWYG tools for designing and editing a game or simulated environment. The Mission Editor is fully integrated with the Torque runtime and provides full access to all Torque subsystems allowing for:

• Object placement and manipulation
• Property inspection and editing
• Light instancing, placement, and manipulation
• Seamlessly connected indoor and outdoor scenes
• Asset importation
• Sound and video
• Performance profiling
• No compile time
• Flexible LOD system
• Terrain editing
• Vast terrains

Graphics

Torque's flexible, powerful rendering is as well suited to photorealistic simulation as to achieving a custom, original-looking style. All modern features are supported by the Torque renderer:

• Per-pixel dynamic lighting
• Normal & parallax occlusion mapping
• Various models of shading
• Volumetric fog and light
• Powerful particle systems: fire, smoke, explosions
• Extensible set of shaders (GLSL / HLSL)
• CustomMaterials system with support for parameter's hierarchy
• Post processing:
  
  
  • Refraction
  • Glow
  • Blurring
  • Color Correction

Torque's graphics API includes implementations for all types of hardware and operating systems. TGEA's DirectX implementation features graceful fallbacks all the way to DirectX 8 for support on older PCs. Together with the OpenGL implementation, Torque will perform on more than 96% of all gamer hardware (Steam Hardware Survey). Console graphics implementations for the Xbox, iPhone, Wii and PSP provide a straightforward path for developers to reach gamers on those devices as well.

Terrain

TGEA's Terrain system is integrated with the runtime with complete editing support from the Mission Editor. Sculpt terrains interactively using these tools or import height fields generated in other applications. Texturing, painting (including support for materials), and decal tools enable the construction of photoreal environments.

Asset Pipeline

TGEA provides support for all major 3rd party art tools including 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, Blender, and Lightwave.

Networking

Using minimal bandwidth, Torque supports fast-paced, latency sensitive multiplayer racing games with vehicle collision and FPS games with fast projectiles and collisions up to 256 players per server. For less latency sensitive simulations like MMORPGs, virtual worlds, etc., Torque can support 1000+ players per server.

Scripting

Torquescript is a fast, easy to use C++ like scripting language that ties all the various elements of a project together. It supports a large complement of functions including math, object manipulation, fileIO, and more. Torquescript allows for compiling on-demand for runtime execution with the integrated script compiler. Torquescript features:

• Object-oriented programming
• Transparent interconnection with external C++ objects
• Built-in fast 3D math (vectors, matrices, and quaternions with all corresponding functions)
• Well-documented standard library (thousands of functions out-of-the box)

Most game functions can be programmed in Torquescript, and engine additions such as physics or intense AI coded in C++ are called from script.

Physics

Torque includes efficiently networked physics functionality, and is built with an abstracted C++ Physics API. Sample implementations are available as resources on this site and include:

• PhysX
• Bullet
• ODE

Using these libraries, Torque supports:

• Rigid body
• Vehicles
• Ragdoll
• Destructible objects
• Dynamic fluid
• Particle system physics
• Destroyable joints
• Various vehicles
• Fluid buoyancy

GUI

Torque provides for fully customizable GUI modules including:

• Widgets, containers and dialogs
• Transparency, animation
• Easy-to-use GUI files
• Skins support
• Support for Eastern languages
• Localization packs support

Torque's Mission Editor is built entirely using this GUI system, so it is platform independent.

Sound

TGEA uses the OpenAL sound library by default and supports a wide range of features. These include:

• 2D Sound, 3D Sound, Streaming Sound
• SFX/Music driver
• 3D sound support for panning, volume, Doppler, cones
• Multi-channel prioritized SFX manager
• Built-in Theora video codec playback

TGEA also has a C++ Sound API with sample integrations for world class 3rd party sound libraries like FMOD.

Source Code

Clean, fast, robust C++ APIs for Torque's major systems enable use of any commercial middleware. You can use PhysX for physics, FMOD for sound, or create your own custom implementation.