Stefan Lundmark's Forum Posts
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| TGEA unlimited terrain equal to unlimited mission size? | [quote] Now it's been stated that TGEA supports maps of 512km by 512km, what is the largest known m... read more | 09/03/2008 (8:07 am) |
| - | I'm really sorry that I can't be too detailed, but hopefully someone else can or you can figure this... read more | 09/02/2008 (1:28 pm) |
| Intrest in a GG sponsored MMOKit. | What's specific for MMO's? A FPS MMO would differ enormously from your typical WoW clone, for instan... read more | 08/28/2008 (12:42 pm) |
| A different idea for a space sim | [quote] The only problem I see with an unlimited speed limit is the size of space. No doubt EVE had... read more | 08/24/2008 (6:17 am) |
| Rendering distance? | All ShapeBase objects are culled in their prepRender functions if they are more than 98% fogged. ... read more | 08/24/2008 (6:06 am) |
| Need C++ help, coding fxBannerReplicator | Hi Tony, Good to see you progress. One thing to remember is that, although fxFoliageReplicator do... read more | 08/18/2008 (10:53 am) |
| General thoughts on a Different CrC type file transfer | [quote] Logic implies, or so I think its possible, to come up with a Single value that when run th... read more | 08/15/2008 (1:26 pm) |
| Render Terrain Normals? | Yeah, there is commented code in that function, at least in TGEA, and possibly a few others. I don't... read more | 08/14/2008 (2:59 am) |
| Render Terrain Normals? | Not sure about LOD, but those normals are correct at least for the topmost mesh. You can safely unco... read more | 08/14/2008 (1:09 am) |
| Definition of long in writeLongString | What James describes is a common way to do this. Write as much as you can, and check BitStream::getS... read more | 08/12/2008 (5:19 am) |
| Definition of long in writeLongString | Sure, I'm just saying it's not scaleable if he ever wants to send more data. AFAIK TinyXML was in... read more | 08/09/2008 (1:47 pm) |
| Why can't the control object be told to "look up/down"? | Nicolai, optimizing code and design can lead to less readable code. That's the case with many areas ... read more | 08/09/2008 (1:17 pm) |
| Definition of long in writeLongString | It doesn't solve his issue with payloads being larger than the MTU, however. Binary or not.... read more | 08/09/2008 (1:12 pm) |
| Definition of long in writeLongString | That's not how it works. When you do bstream->write () you write into the current BitStream. In y... read more | 08/09/2008 (10:10 am) |
| Definition of long in writeLongString | WriteLongString () is not a BitStream function, but since it is a child of Stream you can use it. ... read more | 08/08/2008 (2:00 pm) |
| Normal Mapped Terrains | Getting normals/binormals/tangent information was trivial enough, and I'm not very well versed with ... read more | 08/07/2008 (12:35 pm) |
| Rebuilding Torque. | Incase you're desperate, remove "Browse Information" from your solution and it will work again.... read more | 08/02/2008 (2:47 pm) |
| Adding another HealthBar type. Is it difficult? | The GUI is not connected to game mechanics in that way. It wouldn't be very clean, think of a server... read more | 08/01/2008 (1:45 pm) |
| Adding another HealthBar type. Is it difficult? | Hi again Tony, Short on time, but you need to understand that a profile is merely a general descr... read more | 08/01/2008 (12:15 pm) |
| Adding another HealthBar type. Is it difficult? | Hi Tony, There's already energy bar functionallity in Torque. Just set the DisplayEnergy boolean ... read more | 08/01/2008 (8:05 am) |
| Paint Terrain from colorpicker | Not very simple. Terrain in TGE is blended, which means not only does it use images, it goes trough ... read more | 08/01/2008 (2:13 am) |
| Planing on Torque Engine Advanced but have a few questions. | Making Torque not error with missing content will be the *least* of your issues if you're heading fo... read more | 07/27/2008 (12:46 pm) |
| Atlas Compression Test | We're streaming our terrains and music from compressed containers. Haven't done any lengthy tests, b... read more | 07/25/2008 (5:40 am) |
| Atlas Compression Test | Atlas doesn't use the Resource Manager to stream so you'd have to start there with your modification... read more | 07/25/2008 (3:06 am) |
| Memorable themes - Colorful orchestrations - Reasonable rates | The Demo Reel reminds me of the music in WarCraft 2. Please repost when you got some sci-fiish mu... read more | 07/23/2008 (8:10 am) |
| DynamicLightSecondary? | They sure did! Thanks :)... read more | 07/17/2008 (5:16 am) |
| DynamicLightSecondary? | Brian, if you're still around I'd love to hear a comment about the following: Usually, in most sh... read more | 07/13/2008 (5:47 am) |
| Differences between dedicated and nondedicated server | Yeah. Or at least smooth enough not to be visible. If that's the case, try commenting out the con... read more | 07/12/2008 (10:18 am) |
| Differences between dedicated and nondedicated server | I haven't seen anything like this in our TGEA 1.03 based codebase. However, we ran into issues li... read more | 07/12/2008 (8:34 am) |
| Space Vehicle Physics | Can't be of much help. We didn't use mission borders nor did we use physics to simulate "ship twisti... read more | 07/11/2008 (5:33 pm) |
| Space Vehicle Physics | Rigid is really overkill for this sort of functionallity. We ended up taking FlyingVehicle, merging ... read more | 07/11/2008 (1:37 pm) |
| DynamicLightSecondary? | Thanks Brian, got me working in the correct direction. I got the Terrains to recognize normals no... read more | 07/10/2008 (4:52 am) |
| Terrain Texture Sizes? | You can use any texture size you want, assuming your hardware supports it.... read more | 07/08/2008 (6:17 am) |
| Polysoup vs. DIF | That won't disable collision for a DIF, only player collisions [b]against[/b] interiors.... read more | 07/07/2008 (7:23 am) |
| Do you use Examples, or start from scratch? | I always used the starter.fps example until we came up with our own.... read more | 07/06/2008 (9:07 pm) |
| DynamicLightSecondary? | Guess it was quite obvious by the name. :) I just wanted to make sure. Thanks. My issue was somet... read more | 07/06/2008 (9:06 pm) |
| Transparent .tga texture | The Targa file specification defines that the fourth RGB channel should be opened as transparency, a... read more | 07/01/2008 (1:19 pm) |
| SetTransform: only z rotation?! | You could do that, though it would be a bit ugly. I would start from there and if the gameplay turns... read more | 07/01/2008 (11:49 am) |
| Transparent .tga texture | Photoshop does not support transparency for TGA files. They dropped that in Photoshop 7.... read more | 07/01/2008 (11:23 am) |
| SetTransform: only z rotation?! | To optimize something, you often have to make it just a little less general and actually focus on wh... read more | 07/01/2008 (11:21 am) |
| SetTransform: only z rotation?! | I've done it before, but it won't help you as these changes are less trivial than describing them in... read more | 07/01/2008 (5:33 am) |
| Problem with terrain - game crashes | I've had that happen several times in TGEA, but never managed to track it down. In our particular c... read more | 07/01/2008 (4:51 am) |
| SetTransform: only z rotation?! | [quote] Looking at the player class, Player::setTransform also has this arbitrary limitation. Would... read more | 06/30/2008 (4:15 pm) |
| Bitstream Assistance please | Hi Ron, Your description is very vague so it's difficult to help you. Specifically: [quote] a... read more | 06/30/2008 (2:19 am) |
| Diablo 3 Thoughts | [quote] Sound When you have that many objects banging around and that many monsters taking damage,... read more | 06/29/2008 (3:35 am) |
| Texture Handling | [quote] True I suppose... but Square is still sort-of recommended for most game engines, in any for... read more | 06/28/2008 (3:22 am) |
| Texture Handling | Whaaaat? Non-square textures doesn't have to be non-Pow2. For instance, 512x256. Besides, try fit... read more | 06/27/2008 (2:21 pm) |
| Texture Handling | [quote] TGEA does support compressed .DDS textures which can greatly reduce your memory footprint. ... read more | 06/27/2008 (1:03 pm) |
| Severe performance issues - DIF vs. DTS - shadows? | There's a tool integrated into Torque which is called the Profiler. You can enable it and it will wa... read more | 06/26/2008 (11:23 am) |
| Severe performance issues - DIF vs. DTS - shadows? | That sure looks fishy. Not sure what's going on, can you try to profile it?... read more | 06/26/2008 (10:15 am) |
