Making Progress with Torque 3D

Hey Guy :)

Thought I would help users who want to make games or play around in something other than Unity or UDK

I will provide below instructions on how to use the fantastic Torque 3D engine.

the same engine used for the Rift Valley and Aurora Borealis demo's

First you need to download 3 files

Torque 3D Engine http://mit.garagegames.com/Torque3D-3-0.zip

Torque 3d Rift Template http://mit.garagegames.com/Rift-Template-3-0.zip

Oculus VR SDK https://developer.oculus.com/login (You will need to login to the Development Centre for the SDK)

Now you have those three files it's time to extract them.

I will be using my folder structure but you can do it anyway you like

Extract Torque 3D to c:\Dev

Once done you will have a folder called c:\Dev\Torque3D

Now extract the Rift Template to c:\Dev\Torque3D\Templates

You will now have c:\Dev\Torque3D\Templates\Rift

Extract the Oculus SDK to c:\Dev

You will now have c:\Dev\OculusSDK

You have now setup the development environment :)


------Generating a Game------
To use Torque3D for oculus you need to start building your game. to do this you need to use the Project Manager

c:\Dev\Torque3D\Project Manager.exe

You will now be see a screen that allows you to create projects http://i.imgur.com/lknNu9R.jpg

Click the "New Project" button

Type the name of your game and select the Rift template in the dropdown box

Now before you click create you need to click "Choose Modules"

http://i.imgur.com/3nzPKun.jpg

The Move Class and Networking module must be changed to "ExtendedMove" to use the rift headtracking.

You also need to Tick the Oculus VR Devices and put c:\Dev\OculusSDK as your path or whatever path you used.

Click ok

Now click Create

It will now create the project and popup a window saying Project has been created and the location of it.

Click Ok

Click Finished

Your game has now been created.



------Testing a Game------
If you want to test the rift just highlight your game under myprojects and click the "Open Folder" button

This is everything that was just created.

Open the game folder

Now open the exe file named the same as the game (E.g. Rift.exe etc)

Once you run the window just hit play and select your room

Either "Empty Room" or "Empty Terrain" (Choose Terrain to test the rift)

Click Go

It will now go Full screen and you can use the rift.

If you want to start making the game you have to get out of Full screen mode.

Press Alt + Enter to go to window mode.

Then F11 will bring you to the world editor or F10 to the Menu Editor

Please do note that water doesn't seem to be working correctly currently.

I would like to thank the below people on the Torque3D forums helping me get the rift working for myself and special thanks to David for the Rift Template.

David Wyand of Gnometech Inc.
Michael Hall of Big Kid Games
Scott Burns of GarageGames

I hope everyone enjoys this and can make some fantastic demo's and games :)

Regards VMU_Kiss