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Camera falling through terrain - working through tutorial

by James Bourke · in Torque Game Engine · 11/05/2007 (1:54 pm) · 4 replies

I'm totally new to torque (but am an experienced developer) and am researching wether or not my company wants to use this engine for a project we are going to be starting soon. I worked my way through the "GettingStarted.pdf" tutorial found in the "examples" folder after install. I followed the tutorial pretty much to the letter and all seems to be working - my gui loads, my mission loads but right after load the camera (player) falls through the terrain and just keeps on falling. Any ideas why that would be? What I can do to fix it?
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Associate David Montgomery-Blake
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#1
11/05/2007 (2:02 pm)
Make sure your spawn sphere is above the terrain. Usually when that happens, you are spawning with your feet through the terrain...and you just keep falling.

Torque Owner James Bourke
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#2
11/05/2007 (2:15 pm)
Yeah the spawn sphere is something I don't fully understand... I did move it from the default location for my first test and then tried moving it well above the terrain as a solution. Is there some min. z value for the spawn sphere? The last test I did I had it set at a z of 175

Torque Owner James Bourke
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#3
11/05/2007 (2:18 pm)
Ok, got it working - looks like the spawn sphere being too low was the problem... thanks!

Torque Owner James Bourke
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#4
11/05/2007 (3:36 pm)
Ok, got it working - looks like the spawn sphere being too low was the problem... thanks!