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Having issues with emaga4

by Anthony C · in Torque Game Engine · 05/10/2007 (2:05 pm) · 5 replies

So i typed in all the modules verbatim, went to launch tge.exe and nothing happens, should i feel silly or did i miss something blatantly obvious?
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Torque Owner George Larson
#1
05/10/2007 (8:34 pm)
I had a problem with emaga4 also. Finally went out to the cd and saw a directory called new_files, inside this directory were two files called initialize.cs and main.cs. Upon opening them I found they were updated version for emaga4
//================================================
// control/initialize.cs v0.2
//
// control initialization module for 3DGPAI1 emaga4 sample game
//

//------------------------------------------------------------------------
// ./main.cs v0.2
//
// root main module for 3DGPAI1 emaga4 sample game

I put main in the root and initialize in the control directory, deleted all my .dso files, reran tge.exe. Emaga4 finally loaded up and ran.


Hope this helps.

Associate James Ford
Sickhead Games
#2
05/10/2007 (11:23 pm)
First time I tried running ch. 4 after typing it all in i didnt get a window (although there was a tge process), and no consol.log or anything to give me any idea where the error was. I reccomend using torsion as your editor because it will precompile your script files and check them for syntax errors before actually running tge! And that made my typing error finding a whooole lot faster.

However after fixing my syntax errors now I get a window but it has the default tge demo mission/level loaded (although this is probably just a video artifact) and my cursor is gone but i can draw red dots on the screen. Also In the console I'm getting errors
unable to find function onMissionDownloadPhase3
unable to find function onphase3progress
I was not told to define a stub for these functions in client.cs but I guess i'll go ahead and see what happens.

Associate James Ford
Sickhead Games
#3
05/10/2007 (11:39 pm)
Ok after fixing that and one missnamed function (which isnt caught as a syntax error so had to find it the hard way), it WORKS!

Aidsterramma
#4
06/09/2007 (8:06 pm)
James Ford, what did you do to fix the onMissionDownloadPhase3 and onPhase3Progress functions? I have the same problem. My TGE only has a Red Dot Drawing page and it seems broken like the one you described was.

Dave Finch
#5
06/10/2007 (1:02 pm)
Quote:what did you do to fix the onMissionDownloadPhase3 and onPhase3Progress functions?

Just add function stubs for the missing functions in your client.cs file.

Quote:I have the same problem. My TGE only has a Red Dot Drawing page and it seems broken like the one you described was.

I had the same problem, but it turned out to be typos on my part. I fixed it by switching out the .cs files in 3D2E\RESOURCES\CH4\EMAGA4 BOOK CODE (the ones Finney wrote) with the ones I had written one at a time until I found the offending files. Then I compared the files side by side to see what I had done differently. Shamefully, they were all stupid typos. That's what happens when you copy out a gazillion lines of code. :(