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New renderable object

by Gerald Fishel · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 12/01/2008 (10:00 am) · 2 replies

Hi all,

Getting back into TGEA development after a while. I will have a need to create my own custom renderable objects, ala the fxRenderObject for TGE. I have searched for such on here and TDN but haven't found anything straightforward. There is a resource for fxRenderObject for TSE prior to 1.0 apparently, but the comments suggest that it doesn't really work with the newer version(s) of TGEA.

Basically I just need to be able to draw a simple mesh object like a cube and apply a simple shader-based material to it in the cleanest manner possible. Once I can do that I can take it from there.

Any help on where to go in the docs or elsewhere to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,
Gerald
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Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
#1
12/01/2008 (6:52 pm)
Usually your best bet is finding a class thats as similar as you can get to your needs and modify it.

If this object is mostly static and/or doesn't need ShapeBase features i start from tsStatic.cpp/h.

If this object is dynamic and/or needs ShapeBase then i start from rigidShape.cpp/h.

Torque Owner Gerald Fishel
Development Ninja
#2
12/01/2008 (7:02 pm)
Hi Tom,

Thanks for the response. I will give that a shot. I'll eventually need both static and dynamic objects so I'll try to create some simple versions of each first.

Thanks,
Gerald