Comments on: Torque 3D Extremely Cool Feature – In Game Browser Web Surface/Canvas Capable of Web Render w/ HTML, Flash, Video etc. http://drawlogic.com/2009/04/05/torque3d-extremely-cool-feature-in-game-browser-web-surfacecanvas-capable-of-web-render-w-html-flash-video-etc/ interactive and game development technologies for the web - flash, flex, unity3d, silverlight, javascript Wed, 23 May 2012 00:33:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ryan http://drawlogic.com/2009/04/05/torque3d-extremely-cool-feature-in-game-browser-web-surfacecanvas-capable-of-web-render-w-html-flash-video-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-2939 ryan Thu, 21 May 2009 14:44:04 +0000 http://drawlogic.com/?p=510#comment-2939 @design9 - Yeh you can pretty much do anything with unity outside the player via plugins. It is a killer engine. The Web Player is much more strict. I would say it woudl be nice to have this in the web player. Also, one other killer feature I have been hoping for and mentioning on their forums (unity3d) is the ability to have an external cache to save assets. The limits of browser cache at 25MB for some browsers causes lots of repeat downloads. Kindof like flash's shared object repository cache but bigger and user controlled. I am hoping for a 3d engine such as Unity3d or other to support both of these features. Even for just having web content and videos playig in your game and the ability to have larger scale games with lots of assets so it is economical. @design9 – Yeh you can pretty much do anything with unity outside the player via plugins. It is a killer engine. The Web Player is much more strict. I would say it woudl be nice to have this in the web player. Also, one other killer feature I have been hoping for and mentioning on their forums (unity3d) is the ability to have an external cache to save assets. The limits of browser cache at 25MB for some browsers causes lots of repeat downloads. Kindof like flash’s shared object repository cache but bigger and user controlled. I am hoping for a 3d engine such as Unity3d or other to support both of these features. Even for just having web content and videos playig in your game and the ability to have larger scale games with lots of assets so it is economical.

]]> By: design9 http://drawlogic.com/2009/04/05/torque3d-extremely-cool-feature-in-game-browser-web-surfacecanvas-capable-of-web-render-w-html-flash-video-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-2893 design9 Wed, 13 May 2009 18:39:31 +0000 http://drawlogic.com/?p=510#comment-2893 Unity has a 3rd party HTML texture plugin that exactly this. It's not part of the Unity runtime and therefore only works with Unity standalone published apps. http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=HtmlTexturePlugin Unity has a 3rd party HTML texture plugin that exactly this. It’s not part of the Unity runtime and therefore only works with Unity standalone published apps.

http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=HtmlTexturePlugin

]]> By: jason http://drawlogic.com/2009/04/05/torque3d-extremely-cool-feature-in-game-browser-web-surfacecanvas-capable-of-web-render-w-html-flash-video-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-2700 jason Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:55:19 +0000 http://drawlogic.com/?p=510#comment-2700 Nice!! I would love to see something like this in Unity. Nice!! I would love to see something like this in Unity.

]]> By: drawk http://drawlogic.com/2009/04/05/torque3d-extremely-cool-feature-in-game-browser-web-surfacecanvas-capable-of-web-render-w-html-flash-video-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-2694 drawk Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:12:33 +0000 http://drawlogic.com/?p=510#comment-2694 Yes Flash will be used in games for interfaces for some time, also in game interfaces would be sweet like this sample. Also just the ability to feed in content from the web in all formats (no matter the plugin etc) would be great. Torque3D is a new engine by GG but it is still based on C++ and using TorqueScript to edit. Unity3D is still a better pipeline and easier but Torque 3D is yet to be released (will be in beta soon) and it will be nice to have some competition in this area to push the space along. I am into both Unity3D and Torque3D and they might have cases where one is better than the other depending on project, or once T3D is out it might not even compare well. But from the looks of things we have some GAME ON! Yes Flash will be used in games for interfaces for some time, also in game interfaces would be sweet like this sample. Also just the ability to feed in content from the web in all formats (no matter the plugin etc) would be great. Torque3D is a new engine by GG but it is still based on C++ and using TorqueScript to edit. Unity3D is still a better pipeline and easier but Torque 3D is yet to be released (will be in beta soon) and it will be nice to have some competition in this area to push the space along. I am into both Unity3D and Torque3D and they might have cases where one is better than the other depending on project, or once T3D is out it might not even compare well. But from the looks of things we have some GAME ON!

]]> By: Torque3D plugin with browser surfaces at iestyn.net http://drawlogic.com/2009/04/05/torque3d-extremely-cool-feature-in-game-browser-web-surfacecanvas-capable-of-web-render-w-html-flash-video-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-2690 Torque3D plugin with browser surfaces at iestyn.net Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:15:46 +0000 http://drawlogic.com/?p=510#comment-2690 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: Phil http://drawlogic.com/2009/04/05/torque3d-extremely-cool-feature-in-game-browser-web-surfacecanvas-capable-of-web-render-w-html-flash-video-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-2689 Phil Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:53:44 +0000 http://drawlogic.com/?p=510#comment-2689 I believe that the OGRE engine also has a serious set of plugins that allow you to create UI from flash and as Macaca stated there are many "next-gen" games that are using SWFs for UI amongst other things. I believe that the OGRE engine also has a serious set of plugins that allow you to create UI from flash and as Macaca stated there are many “next-gen” games that are using SWFs for UI amongst other things.

]]> By: infocyde http://drawlogic.com/2009/04/05/torque3d-extremely-cool-feature-in-game-browser-web-surfacecanvas-capable-of-web-render-w-html-flash-video-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-2688 infocyde Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:50:27 +0000 http://drawlogic.com/?p=510#comment-2688 I hear that Torque, once you get past the basics, is kind of a bear to program. With this single feature it would appear to leap frog ahead of Unity 3D, but I'm a little leary about taking on Torque if Unity is easer. Anyone have any recent experience with Torque, or the beta of Torque 3D? I hear that Torque, once you get past the basics, is kind of a bear to program. With this single feature it would appear to leap frog ahead of Unity 3D, but I’m a little leary about taking on Torque if Unity is easer. Anyone have any recent experience with Torque, or the beta of Torque 3D?

]]> By: Macaca http://drawlogic.com/2009/04/05/torque3d-extremely-cool-feature-in-game-browser-web-surfacecanvas-capable-of-web-render-w-html-flash-video-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-2687 Macaca Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:40:50 +0000 http://drawlogic.com/?p=510#comment-2687 Great stuff. Notice lots of next-gen games use Flash allready: i heard Mass Effect for example renders it HUD through a Flash implementation, for easy multi-resolution scaling etc. Great stuff. Notice lots of next-gen games use Flash allready: i heard Mass Effect for example renders it HUD through a Flash implementation, for easy multi-resolution scaling etc.

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