The new TGEA engine has been announced. Here is a link of the new website with new videos, new projects and new images:

http://www.garagegames.com/products/torque/tgea/

Have fun!

It looks promising. I will check some of my artworks there today.

Regards,
Frank

I forgot to mention:
This is not advertising. This thread is to discuss about TGEA features, the videos, new projects and demos.

Please don't talk about personal issues here and don't start an engine flame war!

Thanks

Looks like many improvements have been made since the last release.
I have used Torque only once, but lost interest because of lacking docs.
However, according to the comments there is also a better and more complete documentation now.

As far as I know from reviews the previous releases suffered from severe bugs and obfuscated source code (like TGE did).
Whereas the latter is a nearly insoluble problem, the bugs were most probably fixed.

In any case the new videos and screenshots evince that very good results can be achieved.

I especially like these MegaTerrains. When geometry instancing was supported (I didn't find any information about that) impressive nature scenes could be achieved.

It's really just an observation, but I do wonder why this isn't considered an advertisement... Perhaps we should change the rules and allow this advertising of other products instead, because we already had countless threads of Torque in the past. Any 'news' about an update is sort of promoting it too, I have no problems with that at all though...

Phemox:
Please stay on-topic! You can make a new thread for "changing forum rules".

Ferriswolf:
Yes, they have many improvements like polygonal collision detection and new terrain system.
They also have a foliage replicator. This is some kind of geometry instancing. But I don't know about its performance. But the new game "Legion.." from GarageGames will tell us.

I rendered a few of my models today in TGEA 1.7 and it works fine. Shaders are easy to setup, just a few lines in the material file. The engine writes the needed HLSL code then automatically from the info you provided in the material file.

The documentation is better than before. But there is still room for improvement in my humble opinion.
Workflow is not perfect but the result is quite good. It looks professional to me.

Scripts are easy to read. I don't know the engine source code so far.

going to check the demo out...

very impressive demo where i am not even able to move around

and i dont find any trial of the software itself??

Oww right, I forgot that it's forbidden to disagree or agree with you or even post in your thread, my bad. Geesh...

Run that demo again and then press F11.

After pressing F11 you get a menu where you can change the world. You can change camera speed in the menu (camera is too fast). After pressing F11 again you can fly around.

But the forge demo does not showcase terrains. Probably they will show more demos soon.

help me, i cannot find the demos, only the old ones. where are the new TGEA demo downloads?