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RenderObject not getting called

by Bill Keller · in Torque Game Engine · 03/24/2004 (6:41 am) · 6 replies

I have created an object and datablock (Tile and TileData), derived from GameBase and GameBaseData. It's largely a copy of Melv's fxRenderObject tutorial. However, Tile::prepRenderImage and Tile::renderObject never get called.

My Tile::onAdd includes:

mObjBox = _datablock->_shape->bounds;
resetWorldBox();
setRenderTransform(mObjToWorld);
addToScene();

and I verified that it's getting called. In the editor, my object shows up in the object list and I can change field values. The bounding box is in the correct place, but nothing is rendered (which makes sense, since renderObject is never getting called).

I have no doubt I'm missing something simple, I just have no idea what it is.

Thanks!!

Take care,
Bill
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Torque Owner Brett Fattori
#1
03/24/2004 (6:44 am)
Is your bounding box defined properly? It sounds as if it's being early-rejected from the rendering pipeline. I had an issue with this, and it was because I didn't call resetWorldBox() but I see you are. Also, is it ghosted to the client? Is it packing/unpacking an update? I'd almost say it was your bounding box, but then again you also mention the box is in the right place (does it render?).

- Brett

Torque Owner Bill Keller
#2
03/24/2004 (7:05 am)
The bounding box renders in the editor, but it's empty.

My packUpdate looks like this:
U32 retMask = Parent::packUpdate(connection, mask, stream);

if(stream->writeFlag((mask & DataBlockMask) && _datablock != NULL)) {
   stream->writeRangedU32(_datablock->getId(), DataBlockObjectIdFirst, DataBlockObjectIdLast);
}
return retMask;

I'm not sure about ghosting to the client, how can I check that? I am calling
mNetFlags.set(Ghostable)
in the object constructor.

Thanks!!

Take care,
Bill

Torque Owner Bill Keller
#3
03/24/2004 (7:17 am)
PackUpdate, unpackUpdate, and onNewDatablock are all getting called. I verified that onNewDataBlock is being called on the client side.

Torque Owner Jaba Adams
#4
03/08/2006 (7:46 pm)
Hi Bill,

Did you manage to solve this problem? I'm getting exactly the same thing. I've just created a new class derived from fxRenderObject. The bounding box shows up correctly in the editor, but renderObject(...) isn't called.

Torque Owner Harrison Spain
#5
08/24/2006 (1:53 pm)
I am having the same problem currently. Any of you all find a solution?

Torque Owner Duncan Gray
#6
08/26/2006 (1:03 am)
I had similar problems when I first did the shadow resource. It turned out to be the transform (client side) was not getting valid data so the object was never in scope and therefore preprender never got called.