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More stupid questions:

by George Lancaster · in Torque Game Engine · 08/23/2004 (12:33 pm) · 5 replies

1) Is there any good documentation for the TGE? Is there a help file or something someone has cooked up? A book?
2) Is there a sphere collide in the engine? I need it for a smooth 3rd person camera.
3) Can a script variable be displayed in the gui?

Thanx for any help,
George Lancaster

#1
08/23/2004 (6:19 pm)
1) Yes. 3D Game Programming All In One by Ken Finney is a good start. We also have a pretty extensive engine reference and a getting started guide.

2) Engine doesn't provide an immediate method to do this. There are many ways to accomplish this. Most direct is to do a getPolyList query and go from there... See Matt Fairfax's collision tutorial for more details.

3) Of course.
#2
08/24/2004 (8:41 am)
'3) Can a script variable be displayed in the gui?'
'3) Of course.'
Where is an example of this?

Thanx again,
George
#3
08/24/2004 (8:48 am)
Player name in the mission start GUI
#4
08/25/2004 (11:39 am)
George,

Create a TextBox element in your GUI with a name ( for instance Scorebox ).

And use

Scorebox.setValue($score);

to set it's value.

HTH
#5
08/25/2004 (2:09 pm)
Thanx, I will give it a try.