Unofficial Torque 2D F.A.Q.

#41 *bump*

#42 @Matt
I submitted my tool as a resorce, can you update yours to point to the resorce instead of right off my site?

#43 Btw just so you know I updated the links :) great tool, I'd recommend anyone using it... I used it in my GID to load about 20-30 sprites up into datablocks in about 2 minutes lol... great stuff!

#44 :)

Im planning a new update, based on my own problems with it. I havnt gotten much feedback from anyone else.

The major thing im updating is the image preview graphics, right now its just a gui control 200 by 200 big, when large and unsquare pics are selected it resizes it to 200 X 200 (squiches it together) making it hard to see the image. Im turning it into a T2D sprite and going to scale the pic down ( 128 by 128 max), that way your 64 x 256 image will show up as a 32 x 128 image , not a distroted square.

Then ill be able to extract the image size and display that. Plus a "Auto Calculate" button for the cell mode. You just imput the number of sprites in it and it fills in the cellwidth and height fields for you.

#45 Here's some code I was using:

function initScene()
{
	   // Setup the Scenegraph
		new fxSceneGraph2D(dbEditorSceneGraph2D);
		dbEditorScene.setSceneGraph( dbEditorSceneGraph2D );
		// Set Camera Position.
		dbEditorScene.setCurrentCameraPosition( "0 0 320 200" );		
		
		%background = new fxStaticSprite2D(dbPreviewBkgrnd) { scenegraph = dbEditorSceneGraph2D; };
		dbEditorScene.setCurrentCameraPosition( "0 0 320 200" );		
		%background.setPosition( "0 0" );
		%background.setSize( "320 200" );
		%background.setGroup( 3 );
		%background.setLayer( 11 );
		%background.setImageMap( backgroundImage );
}

function dbFileList::onSelect(%this)
{
// When you click on an item in the tree
// load the new directory into the window
   %sel = %this.getSelectedId();
   %file = dbFileArray.idx[%sel];

   dbPreviewBkgrnd.setImageMap( backgroundImage );
   dbPreviewImage.delete();

	%dbstr = "datablock fxImageMapDatablock2D(dbPreviewImage)\n";
	%dbstr = %dbstr @ "{\n";
	%dbstr = %dbstr @ "   mode = \"FULL\";\n";
	%dbstr = %dbstr @ "   textureName = \"" @ filePath(%file) @ "/" @ fileBase(%file) @ "\";\n";
	%dbstr = %dbstr @ "};\n";
	eval(%dbstr);
	dbPreviewBkgrnd.setImageMap( dbPreviewImage );
	
	dbPreviewBkgrnd.setPosition( "0 0" );
	dbPreviewBkgrnd.setSize( dbPreviewImage.getImageMapBitmapSize() );	
	dbInfo.textureName = filePath(%file) @ "/" @ fileBase(%file);
	dbFname.text = filePath(%file) @ "/" @ fileBase(%file);
}

datablock fxImageMapDatablock2D(backgroundImage)
{
	mode = "FULL";
	textureName = "~/ui/images/backgroundT2D";
};

datablock fxImageMapDatablock2D(dbPreviewImage)
{
	mode = "FULL";
	textureName = "~/ui/images/backgroundT2D";
};

The only problem with this is getting the .getImageMapBitmapSize function working. I posted a fix in this thread www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=27916