Torque 3d
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:49 pm
I am sure many of you got this email but thought I would post anyways...Going to try to stay more on top of indie news.
Torque 3D Now Runs on Macs!
Summer has officially arrived, and with it the release of Torque 3D Beta 3. With 200 improvements and more than 100 fixes, this has been our largest beta release of Torque 3D yet! If you've been waiting to do game development on a Mac with the latest 3D game engine technology, now's the time to take the plunge, before the $100 discount is reduced on July 1st to $50.
Mac support isn't the only thing the Torque 3D team has up its sleeve. We've introduced a bunch of new features into Beta 3, including:
Shape Editor: The brand new, previously unannounced Shape Editor allows you to apply various changes to a mesh after it is loaded. You can merge animations, define nodes, rename meshes, and more.
Decal Editor: The Decal Editor allows you to quickly paint and edit decals in the scene. We've done a major rework of Decal-related source code, so it's now much more efficient and significantly easier to understand.
Mesh Road Editor: Sometimes just looking at a mock-up helps you understand how to fully implement an idea into your game. The Mesh Road Editor allows you to quickly prototype a 3D mesh road. It's great for alpha builds and quick game-in-a-day ideas.
pureLIGHT Support: Unlike other lightmapping solutions, pureLIGHT uses an iterative approach to generating lightmaps with displayed results in real time. And like Torque 3D, pureLIGHT supports any 3D application that will export in the Collada format. Check out the pureLIGHT blog for more details.