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General
General
- Features
- Release notes
  Release notes
Getting started
Getting started
- Introduction
  Introduction
  - What's the Torque3D Engine?
- Getting familiar
  Getting familiar
  - Getting a copy
    
    Getting a copy
    
    Torque Project Manager
    
    Downloading it Yourself
  - Getting ready for launch
    
    Getting ready for launch
    
    Running Pre-Built Binaries
    
    Building the Engine Yourself
  - Launching the game
    
    Launching the game
    
    Opening the Example Level
    
    Launching the Editors
  - Your first game
    
    Your first game
    
    Introduction To The Engine
    
    The Module System
    
    Creating an empty gamemode
    
    Adding a Player
    
    Adding a Coin
    
    Adding a win-condition
    
    Custom coin asset
    
    Counting coins
    
    Adding some effects
    
    Supporting multiplayer
    
    Adding a Scoreboard GUI
    
    Keeping the scoreboard up-to-date
- Best Practices
- Porting a Legacy Project
For artists
For artists
- Assets
  Assets
- Shapes
  Shapes
  - File Formats
  - 3d art
    
    3d art
    
    Shape Specifications
    
    Coordinates System
    
    Mounting Shapes
    
    Animation
    
    Player Setup
    
    Blender -> Torque3D Pipeline
  - 2d art
    
    2d art
    
    Working with Adobe Substance
- Animation
- Gui
  Gui
- Materials
  Materials
  - Material Mapping
  - Material Animation
- Terrain
- Shaders
- Lighting
- Audio
For designers
For designers
- Base classes
  Base classes
  - SimObject
  - SimGroup
  - SceneObject
  - Scene
  - Datablocks
- Game classes
  Game classes
  - Creating an Object
  - Destroying an Object
  - Gameplay scripting
    
    Gameplay scripting
    
    Spawning an Object from Gameplay Code
- Modules
  Modules
  - What are Modules?
  - How to Create a New Module?
  - Making a Module do Things
  - Installing existing modules
    
    Installing existing modules
    
    Where to Get More Modules
- Scenes and levels
  Scenes and levels
  - How to Create a New Level
  - How to load a level
    
    How to load a level
    
    Deep Dive: Level Loading Scripts
  - How to edit levels
    
    How to edit levels
    
    Opening a Level in the Editor
    
    Spawning Objects from the Asset Browser
    
    Working with Scenes
    
    Using SimGroups
    
    Changing a Level's PostEffects
    
    Deep Dive: LevelAsset Companion Files
- Game modes
  Game modes
- Ai
  Ai
- Inputs
  Inputs
  - Inputs and keybinds
    Inputs and keybinds
    
    ActionMap
    
    Bind Functions
    
    ActionMap Stack
- Localization
- Editors
  Editors
  - World Editor Suite
  - World editor
    
    World editor
    
    Scene Editor
    
    ConvexShape Editor
    
    Terrain Editor
    
    Terrain Painter
    
    Material Editor
    
    Spline based tools
    
    Spline based tools
    
    Mesh Road Editor
    
    River Editor
    
    Decal Road Editor
    
    Datablock Editor
    
    Particle Editor
    
    Decal Editor
    
    Forest Editor
    
    Navmesh Editor
    
    Deep Dive: Creating Your Own Editor
    
    Shape Editor
  - Gui editor
    
    Gui editor
    
    Interface Details
For programmers
For programmers
- Compiling the engine
  Compiling the engine
  - Setup development environment
    
    Setup development environment
    
    SDK and Library Installation
    
    Git
    
    Downloading Cmake
    
    Creating a Fork on Github
  - Create a project
    
    Create a project
    
    Creating a Project With CMake
    
    Creating a Project With the Project Manager
  - Compiling
    
    Compiling
    
    Compiling in Windows
    
    Compiling in Linux
    
    Compiling in MacOS
  - Building the Project Manager
- Introduction
- Code Style Guidelines
- Expanding the engine
  Expanding the engine
  - Creating a New Object Class
  - Integrating your new class into the editor
    
    Integrating your new class into the editor
    
    addProtectedField
  - Adding a New Library to the Engine
- Major components of the engine
  Major components of the engine
  - Core
    
    Core
    
    Console
    
    Platform
  - Audio
    
    Audio
    
    SFX
  - Rendering
    
    Rendering
    
    GFX
    
    Render Bins
  - Physics
    
    Physics
    
    Stock T3D Physics
    
    Physics wrapper
    
    Physics wrapper
    
    PhysX
    
    Bullet
    
    Classes
- Rendering
- Math
- Networking
  Networking
  - Client and Server Commands
- Physics
- Scripting
  Scripting
  - Torquescript
    
    Torquescript
    
    What is TorqueScript?
    
    Basic Syntax
    
    Variables
    
    Types
    
    Operators
    
    Control Structures
    
    Functions
    
    Objects
    
    Module interop
    
    Module interop
    
    QueueExec
    
    RegisterDatablock
    
    CallOnModules
    
    ModuleExec
  - Other languages
    
    Other languages
    
    C-Interface
- File Inputs/Outputs(I/O)

For programmers
Expanding the engine

Creating a New Object Class

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