Not enough good things happening.

So this weekend was a big letdown. Joe and I decided to get together and put all of our objects into Torque. It was a good idea at the time. So after we got three buildings and six streets in there Torque runs at about 2 Frames Per Second. Sad times. We discovered, with the help of Jake, that the school computers have a graphics card thing that TGEA doesn't like. We need to switch it to OpenGL for it to run smooth. Well after some research it turns out TGEA 1.8 will let you decide if you want to run in OpenGL or Direct3D. Good news. The bad news is the school only has TGEA 1.7. Again, sad times. "It's ok" we said, "we'll use the normal engine." As it turns out the normal engine is not as easy to place assest in as the advanced is. It will take us a very long time to lay out the city perfectly. On top of that, Torque is lighting our building in a very messed up way. So the problems are building up into a great big problem sandwich that Joe and I don't really want to eat. So, after about a hour of switching back and forth between engines trying to decide which one sucks less, we decided that we will export all of our assets for the Torque engine. However we will not build the city in the engine. We will have the city laid out in 3D Studio Max so that everyone will have an idea of what AwesomeTown will look like. With any luck Torque 3D will come out tomorrow and we can just export as a collada file and be done with it. Not putting the city together in the engine makes us both sad pandas.

This is the biggest setback we've had through this whole project. Everything else has been going great. Joe and I have stuck closely to the schedule that we prepared. Sometimes we were ahead, sometimes behind. For the most part we were close. It's very dissapointing to come so far and not be able to make it the rest of the way. Hopefully we will be able to put all of the assets in the engine someday soon. Until then I must end this very long rant. Thank you for listening.



Mmmmmm corned beef.