Synapse Gaming Lighting Pack - Migration Guide

#1 Hey John,

When I click on the link I get code like this in explorer:

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Suggestions?

Cheers,
Paul Mikulecky
Lost Pencil Animation Studios Inc.
http://www.lostpencil.com

#2 Try a different browser.

#3 Hey Dirk,

Thanks for the response. Tried that. Mozilla Firefox, Netscape 7.2 and IE 6.0. All with the same results.

Cheers,
Paul Mikulecky
Lost Pencil Animation Studios Inc.
http://www.lostpencil.com

#4 Are you behind a proxy of some sort?

#5 Thanks Dirk. I bypassed my firewall and it loaded fine. Strange that proxy would fail on an html file. Thanks again.

Cheers,
Paul Mikulecky
Lost Pencil Animation Studios Inc.
http://www.lostpencil.com

#6 It seems that it screws the MIME types.

#7 Hey Dirk, yep. Looks like it. I gave the firewall a reboot and that solved the problem. Thanks again.

Cheers,
Paul Mikulecky
Lost Pencil Animation Studios Inc.
http://www.lostpencil.com

#8 Hey Paul,

I checked out your site and I'm very impressed, your demo reel is fantastic. You should post a plan showing off your work, I think the community would be very interested in seeing it.

Great work!

-John

#9 John... awesome job. Your commitment to customer satisfaction knows no bounds! This guide is great, very helpful.

#10 Hey John, thanks for the kind words! And thank you for a cool Pack for Torque. I agree with Josh - very helpful!

Cheers,
Paul Mikulecky
Lost Pencil Animation Studios Inc.
http://www.lostpencil.com

#11 Excellent addition to the documents John, We here at Max Gaming are so in love with the Lighting pack, and it just keeps getting better and better.

#12 Thanks guys!

-John

#13 John,

Have you had any complaints from people being unable to compile the source code? I am using vc++ (microsoft visual studio) on a windows 2000 pro machine. I downloaded the standard (purchased) torque sdk 1.3 source self-installer (torque engine source download) and installed it. Then I went to visual c++ and compiled it and it compiled perfectly. However, I get a really strange error with your download - in fact, I just downloaded a fresh copy of the zipfile and this is what I get when I try to open the workspace in visual c++:

"Not all the windows workspace could be opened"

Then, from then on, when I try to build the executeable, instead of saying "torquesdk (yadda yadda).exe" it says "texture2bm8.exe" - what the heck?????

Any advice?

Mike

#14 John,

Have you had any complaints from people being unable to compile the source code? I am using vc++ (microsoft visual studio) on a windows 2000 pro machine. I downloaded the standard (purchased) torque sdk 1.3 source self-installer (torque engine source download) and installed it. Then I went to visual c++ and compiled it and it compiled perfectly. However, I get a really strange error with your download - in fact, I just downloaded a fresh copy of the zipfile and this is what I get when I try to open the workspace in visual c++:

"Not all the windows workspace could be opened"

Then, from then on, when I try to build the executeable, instead of saying "torquesdk (yadda yadda).exe" it says "texture2bm8.exe" - what the heck?????

Any advice?

Mike

#15 Hi Mike,

You need to make 'Torque Demo' the active project right click on it and select 'Set as Active Project'. The Texture2Bm8 project stopped working long ago in stock TGE, so you can safely avoid building it. If you're using VC7 read this: Build Issues, Roger Delgado does a great job explaining how to remove the Texture2Bm8 solution from the Torque SDK. To avoid confusion I'll remove the Texture2Bm8 project in the next Lighting Pack release.

Let me know if this helps!

-John

#16 Hi all -

does the lighting pack migration guide still exist ?

this comes up as a broken link for me:
www.synapsegaming.com/content/linkedimages/sgMigrationGuide.html

#17 Hi Orion,

The Migration Guide is packaged with the Torque Lighting Kit, so you always have the revision written specifically for your version of TLK. It's located right in the "LightingPack" folder.

-John

Edit: Btw: wow this is an old thread, a blast from the past. :)