The Torque Art Community is Going Lightwave... Ya Sure...

According to a recent and very informal forum poll on the GarageGames.com site, many of the new community members seem to believe that Lightwave is now the prevelent 3D application in the community, to which I have to laugh and laugh hard. Here are my reasons why their forum poll is full of shit and should be taken with a few grains of salt.

1. Torque Lightwave users seem to have a stick up their ass trying to proove something lately. They see a thread that even mentions Lightwave and they are on it like flies on shit buzzing around and making noise thinking that the lame-ass 3D application wars of five years ago still matter. Sorry guys they don't.

2. Aside from Danny Ngan and myself I didn't see any of the serious or half serious Torque artists post on the thread (and even then Danny and I really just gave our two cents about how the thread was lame and pointless). Honestly if you are going to rate an application on popularity look at what teams are actually using to make games and based on that comment here are what applications were used to make some of the following games published on GG.com (games list is choosen from what I know what they used).
* Tennis Critters - Blender
* Think Tanks - Max & Maya
* Marble Blast & Marble Blast Ultra - Max & Maya
* Lore Invasion - Max
* Minions of Mirth - Max & Maya
* Tube Twist - Max
* Dimenxian - Max

3. Schools. The majority of schools out there teach Maya, XSI and Max (in that order if you want to look at it in terms of what's most commonly taught) of those schools the few that teach game design and use Torque rely on Maya and Max.


Note: I do not mean this as a knock against Lightwave users and its usage in Torque just venting some frustration at the pig-headedness of the Lightwave users that are currently in the Torque community who feel that because they are a small but noisy and vocal bunch that dominate it all.