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[RESOLVED] Help with the platformer tutorial

by David Downer · in Torque Game Builder · 05/07/2012 (3:16 pm) · 6 replies

I apologize for the double post, didn't realize until afterwards that I posted this in "General Discussion" by accident. If an administrator would be so kind as to delete that post, I would be appreciative.

I'm working my way through the Ninja Platformer tutorial at the moment and have found another section that is broken/outdated and I can't figure it out. I am at the point of dealing with scrolling by locking the camera, and the tutorial states to use the code:

%force = 20;
sceneWindow2D.mount($pGuy, "0 0", %force, true);

This doesn't work - and looking into the scripting reference, I find a different version of this command:

t2dSceneWindow.mount

which I've also tried with no results. Has anyone figured out the correct way to handle this and would you be so kind as to share?

Thank you.
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Employee Michael Perry
ZombieShortbus
#1
05/07/2012 (6:56 pm)
Are you sure $pGuy is a valid object? Also, anything in the console.log that states there is an error?

Torque Owner David Downer
Default Studio Name
#2
05/08/2012 (3:36 am)
Thanks for the feedback. I know $pGuy is valid because my move functions (using that object) are working properly. I will dig into the console to check for other errors.

Thank you.

Torque Owner David Downer
Default Studio Name
#3
05/08/2012 (4:35 am)
(title edited - realized it sounded kind of rude which wasn't my intention)

Torque Owner Bryce Fosheim
Caffeinated Hearts
#4
05/08/2012 (9:01 am)
When I went through that tutorial I'm fairly sure that section of code worked perfectly. However, I am at a different computer and in a different town so I am unable to double check right now.

Torque Owner David Downer
Default Studio Name
#5
05/08/2012 (9:34 am)
Thanks to both of you. I changed the .mount command back to the original in the tutorial and found a parsing error in my code once I opened the console.

I really need to get Torsion as soon as I have the funds - editing in notepad makes bugs nearly impossible to see and squish.

Tyler Sabos
#6
05/09/2012 (10:17 pm)
Hitting ~ for console is very handy. Hitting ~ during runtime or using Torsion both benefit greatly.

TGB's version is also very handy when you need to output variables during execution. You can simply use echo to display any vars you want or alter behavior during runtime.