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Scrolling Texture does Torque support it?

by CdnGater · in Torque Game Engine · 07/21/2004 (8:53 am) · 3 replies

I think I already know the answer to this, but I thought I would ask anyway. Did not find anything about it in resources and forums either.

Does torque currently support the ability to scroll textures?

For instance, setting up an in game news feed. The texture would contain the text, and I want to scroll it on an object. (In game, as in not GUI).

I expect the answer will be no, and that I have to code it.
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Employee David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#1
07/21/2004 (9:45 am)
You can update the textures on models (such as an ammo count on weapons). I'd assume that you could do something similar for DTS shapes (such as a TV or billboard). I know that there was a project that was working on streaming advertising to billboards in a game.

I don't know about updating interior textures, though. Since there are bullet hole resources, it'd make sense that you could do this.

I haven't had to do anything like this, though.

Torque Owner Nathan Martin
TRON 2001 Network
#2
07/21/2004 (10:09 am)
Simple answer, no you will have to code it yourself.

There is this one baseshape object that Melv May created which you can easily modify to do whatever you want which would be a great start for you to use and I cannot find any resources nor forum threads about it since it appears the website is broken yet again on finding resources and threads that people have submitted and created.

Torque Owner Robert Brower
#3
07/21/2004 (10:18 am)
The in-game scoreboard resource could easily be adapted to display scrolling text, and all in script. It displays digits, but that shape could contain letters.

http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=4646

Robert