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prepRenderImage not called on SceneObject

by J Helleman · in Torque 3D Professional · 03/27/2011 (5:04 pm) · 3 replies

Hi,

I made a class in C++ that derrives from the SceneObject class. I created a SimObject for it in TorqueScript and it gets through the onAdd.

bool Manager::onAdd()
{
   if(!Parent::onAdd())
      return false;

   onAdd_callback( getId() );

   addToScene();
   Con::printf("added to scene!");

   // Set up a 1x1x1 bounding box
   mObjBox.set( Point3F( -0.5f, -0.5f, -0.5f ),
                Point3F(  0.5f,  0.5f,  0.5f ) );

   Parent::setPosition(Point3F(0.0152232, 0.016707, 3.68072));


   _updateShouldTick();
      
   return true;
}

But after that it does tick but doesn't get called on the prepRenderImage function.

bool Manager::prepRenderImage(SceneState* state, const U32 stateKey,
                                       const U32 /*startZone*/, const bool /*modifyBaseState*/)
{
	Con::printf("TEST?!");
	return false;
}

Does anyone know why prepRenderImage doesn't get called?

Thanks guys,
Jan
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Torque 3D Owner J Helleman
#1
03/28/2011 (4:45 am)
This doesn't have to work this way btw, if I can get the current active camera's frustum or data to create a frustum i'd be happy as well in processTick() :)

Associate Manoel Neto
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#2
03/28/2011 (9:09 am)
Which typemasks are you applying to your object on the constructor?

Torque 3D Owner J Helleman
#3
03/28/2011 (10:20 am)
Lol your reply was different before :P I was totally confused :)
Manager::Manager()
{
   // Don't ghost by default.
   mNetFlags.set(Ghostable | ScopeAlways);
}
But I guess this is not the way to go. I wanted to do it this way to gain easy access to specific render parameters easily (camera frustum etc) but since depending on the bounding box prepRenderImage is called it will not be executed each frame, so I have to come up with a different idea...