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Material issues with Starter.fps

by Dave D · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 11/07/2006 (9:34 am) · 2 replies

I s there a way to get around texture names the have a ' - ' in them?

For example, TGE 1.5 have a texture called 'tall-original'.

I try t load it with:
new Material(tall-orginal)
{
   mapTo = "tall-orginal.jpg";
   baseTex[0] = "tall-orginal";
};

And the error I get is

starter.fps/data/interiors/materials.cs (106): string always evaluates to 0.
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Torque 3D Owner J.C. Smith
#1
11/07/2006 (9:41 am)
Try this...

new Material(tall_original)
{
     basetex[0] = "tall-original";
};

The material name doesn't have to be the same as the texture name. You could call it somethign like MatTallOrig or whatever. The - is probably throwing it off as if its (tall) minus (original). You also don't need to do the MapTo in this case.

Torque Owner Dave D
#2
11/07/2006 (9:46 am)
That did the trick. I never even though of that, thanks.

I was under the assumption they had to be the same.