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Torque is actually quite an old engine, so it is showing its age. On
the other hand, it is mature and the current Mac range even come
complete with a Torque-based game as one of the bundled titles ("Marble
Blast Gold"), so it's certainly capable.
I would advise downloading the demos first to see if you like how they
work. Torque does have a C++ interface, but its primarily aimed at
those who intend to use its own scripting language. You don't get to
see the source and, frankly, there's not much point in being able to do
so. It works. It ain't going to get noticeably faster unless you make
radical changes to the core engine, in which case, you may as well
write your own.
I did play with OGRE too, but OGRE is much less complete. It is faster,
but it lacks maturity and the support for Mac OS X seems to be an
afterthought. (Only the Windows release comes all nicely packaged. The
OS X release won't even build its own demos with XCode 1.5. Not
impressed.)
The problem is that you're really looking for a _game_ engine, rather
than just a graphics engine and OGRE is primarily a graphics engine.
It'll do 3D, but not a whole hell of a lot else. Torque is older, but
may be better suited to your needs.
As for 3D Game Studio: It's one of those point-and-click "Make A Game"
programs you often see in bargain bins. I'm sure it's capable of some
nice stuff within its own limitations, but it's not really a
pro-quality game engine.
There are surprisingly few complete middleware game engines available
at a cheap price point, so your options are limited, I'm afraid. And
without knowing what kind of game you really want, it's hard to be
specific about which engine is "better".
--
Sean Timarco Baggaley
On 2005-03-07 15:46:34 +0000, "zircher" <tzircher@yahoo.com> said:
> To get the cross platform support that you want, I suggest looking at
> the Ogre engine.
>
> http://www.ogre3d.org/
>
> A friend of mine (Walaber) is using this in conjunction with the Newton
> physics engine and seems to be very pleased with the results so far.
>
> http://www.physicsengine.com/
>
> It doesn't hurt that the cost of entry for these two is very low.
> Given that this may be your first big project. I would seriously
> consider make a game mod using an existing engine. This will give you
> a change to cut your teeth working as a team, learning your media
> tools, and sticking to a design and working within a set of
> limitations. If your team can survivie that, you'll have a much better
> shot at a whole game project and your quality will be much better than
> freshman effort.
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