Game Development Community

Controlling multiple sprites

by Andrew Bangs · in Torque Game Builder · 12/01/2005 (1:50 pm) · 2 replies

Hi,
Is there an easy way to run a command (such as setVisible(false) ) on all objects in the same Group? I've got a scene with several NPCs in it (and theoretically, I may have several towns), all of which I want to either hide or remove/delete (haven't really decided yet, but for now I'm going with hide) when it switches to combat mode. 

function setupCombat(%opponent, %zone)
{
 $fighting = true;
 if (%zone $= "grass") {
	   drawWorld("battle");
	}
	alxStop($mainAmbientAudio);
	$mainCombatAudio = alxPlay( combatAudio );
	
	// Delete, or make hidden, all other sprites
	// That is, delete everything whose group matches $spriteCollisionGroup
	$player.setVisible(false);       // THIS WORKS
	$npc.setVisible(false);           // THIS WORKS (but only deletes the most recent NPC made (makes sense))
	$town.setVisible(false);        // THIS WORKS
	$spriteCollisionGroups.setVisible(false);  // THIS DOESN'T

Error:
pathname/combat.cs (28): Unknown command setVisible.
     Object LoadTextProfile(1090) GuiControlProfile -> SimObject

I know I've asked this before, but I can't remember the answer: Is there a way to loop through all the game objects (so that I can compare the Group parameter of each)? That's one way to do this. I also could put all my NPCs (and towns) on the scene into a structure, and then set the whole struct to hidden (but I don't know how to do that... might not even be possible).

Any help you guys could provide would be appreciated.
NextNext Thread
PrevPrevious Thread
More from Torque Game Builder


Torque Owner Andrew Bangs
#1
12/01/2005 (4:18 pm)
Well, I searched a little more on the forums here, and found that if I keep all my sprites in an array when I make them, I can loop through that to set them invisible.

$town = new fxStaticSprite2D() { scenegraph = mainSceneGraph2D; };
	$spriteList[$spriteCounter++] = $town;

then

for ($i = 0; $i < $spriteCounter; $i++) {
	   echo ("spritelist[i] is: " SPC $spriteList[$i] SPC "and i is: " SPC $i);
	   $spriteList[$i].setVisible(false);
}

Make sure you reset $spriteCounter whenever necessary.

Good luck to anyone who finds this :)

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Langley
Torque
#2
12/01/2005 (7:41 pm)
You could use a SimSet()

something like this

new SimSet(SpriteList);

$town = new fxStaticSprite2D() { scenegraph = mainSceneGraph2D; };

SpriteList.add($town);

to iterate through it you can do this

%count = SpriteList.getCount();

for(%i=0;%i<%count;%i++)
{
   %obj = SpriteList.getObject(%i);
   %obj.setVisible(false);
}