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3D Shapes help

by Chris · in Torque Game Builder · 06/10/2006 (3:43 pm) · 7 replies

I have exported a 3d fish I made in milkshape to a .dts. With a skin, bounds and root node. When I loaded up the TGB it displayed a gray box for the shape but when I dragged it onto the scenegraph all I got was a transparent square. I then went to the TDN and went to the using 3d shapes tutorial and downloaded the soldier model they gave as an example and the same thing happened.

What am I missing or are the 3d shapes currently not working.

Chris
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Torque Owner Ben Shive
#1
06/10/2006 (7:18 pm)
I had trouble with shapes at first too. Did you check the export log to make sure it exported correctly?

The latest TGB is pretty nice in that all you have to do is drop the .dts plus any texture files in the data/shapes folder.

Torque Owner Chris
#2
06/11/2006 (12:30 pm)
Even if it didnt export correct shouldnt the example soldier in the TDN work?

Torque Owner Ben Shive
#3
06/12/2006 (4:51 am)
Yeah, make sure you put all of the associated files in the 'shapes' directory though. I've got:

reinstatedsoldier-attack.dsq
reinstatedsoldier-death.dsq
reinstatedsoldier-idle.dsq
reinstatedsoldier-move.dsq
reinstatedsoldier-react.dsq
reinstatedsoldier.dts
reinstatedsoldier.png

Torque Owner Chris
#4
06/12/2006 (3:32 pm)
Yeap I got all of that and it still doesn't display. Do you think it could be a driver issue?

Torque Owner Mark Harmer
#5
06/13/2006 (12:46 pm)
I had this problem as well, switch to OpenGL rendering in your options.

Torque Owner Neo Binedell
#6
06/16/2006 (11:51 pm)
Yup that would do it, in the start of the render function the code checks if renderer == "D3D" and
exits. If you STILL have problems then the only other thing I've found that makes things either
transparent or white or black is if something has turned off blending, etc.

~neo

Torque Owner Matt Bates
#7
06/18/2006 (4:25 am)
I'm having a similar problem with shape animations (not to hijack the thread). Models render properly and everything but I can't get animations to work, I get a script error in the console "preload failed for soldierDTS" and I can't find any reference for the TSShapeConstructor function. Any ideas?