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Kyle Carter's Forum Posts

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Chat Typing Blocker I personally have a ten year old brother I'd like to be able to play Zap with me.... read more 01/20/2005 (11:06 pm)
Torque features wishlist. Have you downloaded the TSE demo or looked at the TSE product page or documentation? Approximately 9... read more 01/20/2005 (11:29 am)
CVS Help Please! This should all work just fine. CVS is very good at being shuffled around and such. I'd suggest doin... read more 01/20/2005 (11:27 am)
Recordings Robert, can you check that fix into 1.4?... read more 01/20/2005 (11:26 am)
Video teaching Yeah, windows movie maker is basically a lame iMovie clone, but it's good enough to do basic editing... read more 01/20/2005 (11:26 am)
Detection of missing 3D hardware still working? Do you have drivers installed for that system? Do other OpenGL games/apps run ok?... read more 01/20/2005 (11:25 am)
Multithreading *cough*TSE terrain uses a background loader thread*coughcough* Multithreading is becoming more im... read more 01/20/2005 (11:25 am)
The Open Dynamics Framework Amazingly, ODEItem was written by a community member... Not only that, there is about a 90% chance (... read more 01/20/2005 (11:22 am)
Opengl 2.0 How does this sound... We'll keep TSE updated to be the very cutting edge in graphics. It will (e... read more 01/20/2005 (11:19 am)
Mission to Mission I'm a little unclear what you're trying to do - transition from one mission to another based on the ... read more 01/20/2005 (11:12 am)
How do demo recording works? I would suggest storing the car's position, steering value, etc. once a tick as a starting point. Th... read more 01/20/2005 (11:11 am)
Holding C button results in weird bug Will definitely be possible.... read more 01/19/2005 (10:46 pm)
Semi-random thoughts about terrain deformation And the terrain tends to crash if you can see too much of it at once - it does a lot of processing p... read more 01/19/2005 (10:44 pm)
ELF binary type "0" not known We still provide a CVS server, but the installer is out there so that we have fewer CVS related supp... read more 01/19/2005 (10:42 pm)
Recordings Thanks, Robert! :)... read more 01/19/2005 (10:41 pm)
Video teaching I've made some pretty decent demo movies with fraps and windows movie maker. It's cheesy but it work... read more 01/19/2005 (10:41 pm)
TSShapeInstance::snapShot is making invalid bitmaps Possibly need to call loadMaterialList or some such, rather than preload?... read more 01/19/2005 (10:39 pm)
How to get position of a mount-node? Er... the behavior you're describing seems to be because the network system can't propagate that man... read more 01/19/2005 (10:38 pm)
Multithreading Sure, have it only profile the main thread.... read more 01/19/2005 (10:37 pm)
Why the ID is different? GServerContainer is the same as gClientContainer, except it is server-side.... read more 01/19/2005 (10:35 pm)
How do demo recording works? Demo recording records the network stream from client to server, allowing you to replay game session... read more 01/19/2005 (12:50 pm)
TSShapeInstance::snapShot is making invalid bitmaps Probably snapshot is getting called before the textures are loaded into the shape?... read more 01/19/2005 (12:48 pm)
Multithreading Bear in mind that Torque's memory manage is not thread safe, nor is the profiler, nor is the string ... read more 01/19/2005 (12:47 pm)
The Open Dynamics Framework Bear in mind there's a BIG difference between "physics" and "networked lag-free simulated controllab... read more 01/19/2005 (12:45 pm)
Recordings I believe there's a method on GameConnection you can call to play a demo back. Have you tried greppi... read more 01/19/2005 (12:43 pm)
Pictures won't show up in editor. Thanks for posting the conclusion to that one. :)... read more 01/19/2005 (12:42 pm)
Gui Editor: Creating Custom Buttons Well, a lot of those GUI controls work great - in certain circumstances. Totally unsupported code is... read more 01/18/2005 (10:49 pm)
The getNodeTransform() procdure is it real? Did you try doing a find in files for it?... read more 01/18/2005 (10:47 pm)
Error: Invalid Query Box created From the exporter or the game engine?... read more 01/18/2005 (10:45 pm)
Anyone suggest a basic AI tute? Ah, interesting. Congratulations on your 2.1, then! :)... read more 01/18/2005 (10:45 pm)
Multithreading Torque is not multithread safe. The threading support is only useful for very specific situations; i... read more 01/18/2005 (10:44 pm)
Is it possible to have a text file with certains parameters? Sure, just write some script to asssign the values, eh? You can also use XML, as there's some res... read more 01/18/2005 (10:41 pm)
Confused with Net Code @Omroth: :P... read more 01/18/2005 (10:39 pm)
Detection of missing 3D hardware still working? Stefan, I'd be pretty interested to see that message box. Sounds pretty useful!... read more 01/18/2005 (10:39 pm)
On3DMouseDown Somebody ought to write some mouse-event tracing code so you can see what's eating your events.... read more 01/18/2005 (10:38 pm)
No such release as 1_2_0? Trust me, you're not missing a whole lot compared to what we have now. :)... read more 01/18/2005 (7:23 pm)
TSShapeInstance::snapShot is making invalid bitmaps Please note that when I refer to alpha, I mean that the GBitmap HAS an alpha channel, not whether an... read more 01/18/2005 (7:22 pm)
Server List Question Possibly related to the previously noted arg parsing issues?... read more 01/18/2005 (12:49 am)
Please make an ignoring feature The TorqueApp port will let you write all the flood protection logic you can stand. :)... read more 01/18/2005 (12:47 am)
Suggestion: Damage Feedback Hmm, interesting idea. On my list of thoughts now.... read more 01/18/2005 (12:44 am)
Shader dev workfow question Remember the key problem here. The rest really, really is window dressing. ;)... read more 01/18/2005 (12:40 am)
Ugly lighting Also could be related to whether you're mirroring your texture or not.... read more 01/18/2005 (12:39 am)
Findcontacts and mContactInfo.contactNormal Hmm, good call. On my todolist to inspect.... read more 01/18/2005 (12:35 am)
Is it possible to have a text file with certains parameters? You could give him a script file that just has the variables he needs to edit, ie, [code] $valu... read more 01/18/2005 (12:34 am)
Gui Editor: Creating Custom Buttons Our biggest priority right now with Torque is docs and ease of us. I personally have spent the last ... read more 01/18/2005 (12:32 am)
Particle affects around a objects collision mesh... Check engine/game/fx/splash.*... read more 01/18/2005 (12:25 am)
Irritating rendering artefact You mean 2500? 0.o... read more 01/18/2005 (12:24 am)
The Open Dynamics Framework Garr, where are the headers? This sounds awesome but I can hardly have an opinion until I've looked ... read more 01/18/2005 (12:23 am)
Pop menu Did you try calling the control's resize method to set its position?... read more 01/18/2005 (12:22 am)
800x600 gui problem See Kirby's reply, for more detail see what happens to GuiControl co-ordinates when they are loaded,... read more 01/18/2005 (12:20 am)