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Extending masks

by Devil`s Workshop · in Torque Game Engine · 08/09/2003 (7:59 pm) · 3 replies

Hi,

after looking at the shapebase code i'm almost sure my packet problem lies
in shapebase.h or exactly :
// Network state masks
   enum ShapeBaseMasks {
      NameMask        = Parent::NextFreeMask,
	  DamageMask      = Parent::NextFreeMask << 1,
      NoWarpMask      = Parent::NextFreeMask << 2,
      MountedMask     = Parent::NextFreeMask << 3,
      CloakMask       = Parent::NextFreeMask << 4,
      ShieldMask      = Parent::NextFreeMask << 5,
      InvincibleMask  = Parent::NextFreeMask << 6,
      SkinMask        = Parent::NextFreeMask << 7,
      SoundMaskN      = Parent::NextFreeMask << 8,       // Extends + MaxSoundThreads bits
      ThreadMaskN     = SoundMaskN  << MaxSoundThreads,  // Extends + MaxScriptThreads bits
      ImageMaskN      = ThreadMaskN << MaxScriptThreads, // Extends + MaxMountedImage bits
      NextFreeMask    = ImageMaskN  << MaxMountedImages
   };

How could i extend one of the above masks ?

Thx,
Alexander
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Torque Owner Badguy
#1
08/09/2003 (9:45 pm) 
enum ShapeBaseMasks {
        .....
	NextFreeMask    = ImageMaskN  << MaxMountedImages ,
	MyNewMask		= NextFreeMask << 1,
	MyNewMask1		= NextFreeMask 	<< 2,
	MyNewMask2		= MyNewMask1	<< 1

you can use either of the two ways to declare new mask's.

to understand what is happening here, one might want to study bitwise operators a bit.

but doing it this way you are not having any "overlap" for the AND OR testing.

Torque Owner Devil`s Workshop
#2
08/11/2003 (6:46 pm)
Hi and thanks.

looked a little bit at bitwise operations. It's shifting left/right with a specified amount. But currently i'm not really sure how to use your sugguestion at my problem (thanks for your help anyway).

I'm trying to add the "hide node" ressource but since the ressource was written the skinmask has been added i would have to add some changes to the ressource ( HideNodeMask ..to be exactly ;) ).

Torque Owner Devil`s Workshop
#3
08/13/2003 (7:45 am)
Nobody uses the HideNode Ressource ? How you're got it working with recent HEAD ??