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How to unload and load a new scene

by Matthew Shrewsbury · in Torque Game Builder · 07/27/2011 (7:55 pm) · 9 replies

Hello everyone,
I have been raking my brain around on this for a little while now and I figure I would post my question in the forms.
Ok here is goes, I have my starting scene named Main.t2d with mainScreen.Gui attached to it. From my mainScreen.gui I have several buttons on it (start, end, options and ect) I want to have my start button delete the current scene / gui and load a new set. The new files are called Select.t2d and select.gui.

From mainScreen.gui I have my start button linked to this function.

// start of char select
function charSelect()
{
sceneWindow2D.endLevel();
mainScreenGui.dump();
}


And here is a snip from my console log
>>> Advanced script error report. Line 50.
>>> Some error context, with ## on sides of error halt:
function endGame()
{
sceneWindow2D.endLevel();
moveMap.pop();
moveMap.delete();
}



// start of char select
function charSelect()
{
sceneWindow2D.endLevel();
mainScreenGui.dump();

sceneWindow2D.loadLevel(@"datalevelsSelect.t2d");
## ##
}



>>> Error report complete.

So what is the best way to make the transition from one scene to the next?
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Community Manager Michael Perry
ZombieShortbus
#1
07/28/2011 (6:33 am)
Moved to the right forum.

@Matthew - The problem is this line of code:

sceneWindow2D.loadLevel(@"datalevelsSelect.t2d");

Remove the @ symbol.

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Shrewsbury
#2
07/28/2011 (3:17 pm)
Thank you very much that worked like a champ. I do apologize for placing this thread in the wrong spot.
One other question in regards to this topic. One other part to this, how do you remove a gui and load another in its place?

I want to remove "mainScreenGui.gui" and load "select.gui" in its place for the next scene.

Community Manager Michael Perry
ZombieShortbus
#3
07/28/2011 (4:14 pm)
You will want to use Canvas.pop() to remove a GUI, then Canvas.pushDialog() to put the other on the stack.

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Shrewsbury
#4
07/28/2011 (5:15 pm)
Thank you very much, that worked like a charm. Thank you very very much for all your help.

Torque Owner Andrew H
#5
07/29/2011 (8:33 am)
How did you set your start level?

Community Manager Michael Perry
ZombieShortbus
#6
07/29/2011 (12:24 pm)
@Laura - You can use any variable you want to set a starting level, so long as you use this code:

sceneWindow2D.loadLevel(%level);

You can have a global variable, like:

$StartingLevel = "game/data/firstLevel.t2d";
sceneWindow2D.loadLevel($StartingLevel);

Or you can just specify using a string:

sceneWindow2D.loadLevel("game/data/firstLevel.t2d");

Totally up to you.



Torque Owner Andrew H
#7
07/29/2011 (12:28 pm)
Oh. Okay. Thanks!

Torque 3D Owner Ronny Bangsund
Torque Cheerleaders
#8
07/29/2011 (12:45 pm)
Now is a good time to pop into IRC and ask :)

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Shrewsbury
#9
08/20/2011 (8:04 am)
Where can I find the IRC chat channel information?

Also I noticed that Canvas.pop is not a recognizable command. What command should I use to remove a GUI ?

Can anyone point me in a direction of Canvas commands?


<---Log file--->

Loading compiled script C:/Users/Matthew/Desktop/KKF - Great CAKe Capper/game/data/levels/Main.t2d.
game/gameScripts/game.cs (51): Unknown command pop.
Object canvas(1112) canvas -> GuiCanvas -> GuiCanvas -> GuiControl -> SimGroup -> SimSet -> SimObject
Loading compiled script C:/Users/Matthew/Desktop/KKF - Great CAKe Capper/game/data/levels/Select.t2d.