GUI with rotating, lighted 3D model video
by SJ · in Artist Corner · 03/15/2010 (6:16 am) · 3 replies
Hi, I'm a student at ECU, working on a Torque3D beta 4 game.
It's a sub game where part of the interface are various submarine rotating handles and gadgets which do things when you click on them.
My problem is that I'm new to working with the GUI and I'm not sure what it's capable of. I want to have a circular handle as part of the GUI, which rotates when clicked on. The handle will be a 3D model from 3DS Max 2010, with lighting on it that is correct to how much the handle has rotated. The lighting won't be based off lights in the general game world, but a light purely for the handle.
I was thinking of possibly making a small video in max of a 3D handle rotating under a light, but I don't know if Torque can do that. I've read a little of the tutorials and looked at work done by other members of my group, but most of what I've seen is just buttons with text on them. Does anyone know if it's possible to include a video as a button which plays when clicked on?
It's a sub game where part of the interface are various submarine rotating handles and gadgets which do things when you click on them.
My problem is that I'm new to working with the GUI and I'm not sure what it's capable of. I want to have a circular handle as part of the GUI, which rotates when clicked on. The handle will be a 3D model from 3DS Max 2010, with lighting on it that is correct to how much the handle has rotated. The lighting won't be based off lights in the general game world, but a light purely for the handle.
I was thinking of possibly making a small video in max of a 3D handle rotating under a light, but I don't know if Torque can do that. I've read a little of the tutorials and looked at work done by other members of my group, but most of what I've seen is just buttons with text on them. Does anyone know if it's possible to include a video as a button which plays when clicked on?
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Edit;
One other thing, does anyone know how to convert a max animation into a movie and then convert that into a theora video?
03/27/2010 (7:35 pm)
Had a look through it, but I think I need some help understanding how to use it with scripting. I want to be able to run the video when clicked, pause it when clicked again and the ability to reverse the movie when right clicked.Edit;
One other thing, does anyone know how to convert a max animation into a movie and then convert that into a theora video?
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Again, I can't be of too much help because I don't use T3D and am not sure of its differences to TGEA. But as far as playing a video in T3D look up GuiTheoraCtrl.