Cfg. Files
by Quentin Headen · in Technical Issues · 06/01/2006 (5:14 pm) · 3 replies
Here I go again. I am a beginner. I just want to know how to make a Microsoft Outlook Confguration File. In the buggy file in the torque SDK Demo, there is a cfg. file. All I want to know is how do you make it. Please give me this information. Thank you.
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Just your average programmer who tries to finish the projects he starts. :) I am currently focused on creating games with Torque engines. My website is http://phaseshiftsoftware.com
#2
A .cfg file is just a text document to explain what can and cannot be exported,
when you export your file from a 3d application(I speak only from a 3ds max persepective).
It is very crucial to get your shape exported correctly. Otherwise some unkown objects may
be rejected by the exporter.
For example:
You have a character in a gun pose. You have the gun in the characters hand.
But..you don't not want the gun to actually export. That is what a .cfg file could do.
You can tell it to export the character bones and mount points, but not the gun and extra
stuff you may have in a scene.
Read it search for it, somewhere in the text it will explain what a .cfg is.Read Chapter 8.Torque Documentaion. and it will help you.
It helps me everytime I forget something.ITs a great starting point.
BTW- Microsoft outlook has nothing to do with torque or .cfg files. Load up someone elses
.cfg with note pad modify it for your object and save it as a plain text document with .cfg at
the end. Thats it. If your exporter doesnt like something - include its name in the - not to
export list.
Read Chapter 8 and you will see. what im saying.
-Surge
06/01/2006 (5:38 pm)
Chapter 8. on character exporting is where I first learned of the .cfg file.(Long time ago)A .cfg file is just a text document to explain what can and cannot be exported,
when you export your file from a 3d application(I speak only from a 3ds max persepective).
It is very crucial to get your shape exported correctly. Otherwise some unkown objects may
be rejected by the exporter.
For example:
You have a character in a gun pose. You have the gun in the characters hand.
But..you don't not want the gun to actually export. That is what a .cfg file could do.
You can tell it to export the character bones and mount points, but not the gun and extra
stuff you may have in a scene.
Read it search for it, somewhere in the text it will explain what a .cfg is.Read Chapter 8.Torque Documentaion. and it will help you.
It helps me everytime I forget something.ITs a great starting point.
BTW- Microsoft outlook has nothing to do with torque or .cfg files. Load up someone elses
.cfg with note pad modify it for your object and save it as a plain text document with .cfg at
the end. Thats it. If your exporter doesnt like something - include its name in the - not to
export list.
Read Chapter 8 and you will see. what im saying.
-Surge
#3
06/01/2006 (5:46 pm)
I want to make a car with the wheels mounted on the mouting bone. Like in the demo, the buggy has the wheels mounted on. I want to do this also so I can make the wheels rotate so the car can run. The buggy has the separate wheels mounted, and I want to mount my wheels on the bones of the car I made. Will the cfg. file allow me to mount the wheels on my car in the game? 
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