ShapeBase drived object not rendering until moved
by JohnT · in Torque Game Engine · 05/22/2006 (8:47 am) · 3 replies
Hope someone can point me in the right direction.
I have created a new vehicle type that is based upon the BraveTree Tank. I've stripped out everything that I did not need and am able to bring my object into the game(except I can't see it). My problem is that the object does not render until I move it ever so slightly in the editor. Then it snaps into view and works perfectly.
I read in the forums where someone else was having this problem but he never got it resolved, hope someone else has experienced this and can help.
Thanks,
John
I have created a new vehicle type that is based upon the BraveTree Tank. I've stripped out everything that I did not need and am able to bring my object into the game(except I can't see it). My problem is that the object does not render until I move it ever so slightly in the editor. Then it snaps into view and works perfectly.
I read in the forums where someone else was having this problem but he never got it resolved, hope someone else has experienced this and can help.
Thanks,
John
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Thanks for the above snippet of code.
the ScopeToClient helped fix a problem I was having with networked clients. Now the vehicle is transmitted to the client but is still unfortunately invisible still. What is really odd is that I can make the player attach to the vehicle but he vanishes from the game and is rendered with the vehicle in a completely empty world except for particle effects.
I think I've found where Ork's go when they die ;)
05/23/2006 (5:22 am)
@Daniel,Thanks for the above snippet of code.
the ScopeToClient helped fix a problem I was having with networked clients. Now the vehicle is transmitted to the client but is still unfortunately invisible still. What is really odd is that I can make the player attach to the vehicle but he vanishes from the game and is rendered with the vehicle in a completely empty world except for particle effects.
I think I've found where Ork's go when they die ;)
Torque 3D Owner Daniel Eden
If you're adding the vehicle via script, just use the setTransform method on it after it's created. For example:
// Create your desired vehicle transform here (using the identity by default). %transform = "0 0 0 1 0 0 0"; // Create the vehicle. %vehicle = new WhateverVehicle() { datablock = WhateverVehicleData; }; // Set the vehicle transform to ensure it appears where it should. %vehicle.setTransform(%transform); // Ensure the vehicle is cleaned up with the mission. MissionCleanup.add(%vehicle); // If the vehicle has a client, ensure it's always scoped to that client. if (%client) { %vehicle.scopeToClient(%client); }