my wishes for the next TGE(A)-Updates

Thomas Bang — 2008-05-22T07:46:29+00:00

Shape, static Shape, Item

I don't understand why this difference exists. It would be better to have only one of these objects/datablocks. The user can decide which properties he want to use.

TGE(A)-Editor

- the category-property should be removed (the editor should display automatically the folder-hierarchy under the game-root-folder with realtime-update)

- i create a dts/dif and place it in the level... now i want to modify this model with my 3d-app/Constructor... without to restart the engine or level... torque should now replace the older dts/dif with the newer version

- cutscene-editor: i like it to create cutscenes with ingame-graphics

Shadows

- each shape should have four properties:
cast stat. shadow
receive stat. shadow
cast dyn. shadow
receive dyn. shadow

ShowTool Pro

- Shader/Shadow-Preview (it's a real time-saver)
- ShowTool should be able to read Collada/FBX and convert these files to dts

Constructor

- if it's possible to append normal- and/or specmaps to interiors... constructor should display it

TGE(A)-Engine

- protect art assets (a publish-function could do it)
- the old problem: weapon go through the walls
(I know... we can move the weapon more to the player to avoid this. But it would be cool to have a flag like... zorder=true/false. Something like this.)

I hope some of these suggestions find their way to TGE(A)...

Greetings

Thomas Bang
Germany

gamebase.dll - ready to use (AES Rijndael)

Thomas Bang — 2008-05-09T19:49:17+00:00

Hi

This is my first blog here at garagegames.
What i have to say...

I wrote a DLL where you can use functions to save/load crypted/decrypted text to/from a file (usable with TGB, TGE and TGEA). This has several reasons.

1. I want to get some deeper knowledge about GG's engines.
2. I write my own game with TGB and i need some special functions.
3. It's a lot of fun to write DLLs. ;-)

Here we have a saved file.

The customer of your game can edit all values very easy. Bad.

And this is the crypted version of the file. Good.
The text is crypted/decrypted password-dependent.

The functions provided with this DLL are very easy to use.

Here is the complete documentation.
www.darkware.de/gamebase_documentation/index.htm

The future:

I will implement more functions like copy, delete and remove files/folders, create folders, search files in a folder, support for ini-files and the registry and so on.

If you have wishes... please let me know.

I hope you like the gamebase.dll

Greetings

Thomas Bang
Germany

Edit: New functions are available.
Now you can crypt/decrypt text if you have your own load/save-functions.

And you can search files in a specified folder with more than one search-mask.

Documentation modified !!!

Blog for Thomas Bang at GarageGames.com

my wishes for the next TGE(A)-Updates

gamebase.dll - ready to use (AES Rijndael)