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New Filetype

by Tim Ryness · in Torque Game Engine · 09/28/2004 (3:50 pm) · 3 replies

Is there a tutorial or resource someplace that explains all the steps to adding a new filetype into the engine, I've been hunting through code and searching for help but I haven't had much luck.

All I want to do is load a particle effect from the disk, and be able to place the emitter someplace in the world using the editor. And of course, update it's animation and render it, I really don't need too many flags or settings, just a filename.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Torque Owner Demolishun
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#1
09/28/2004 (6:21 pm)
Can the effect be contained in a script? Then just create a script that has functions in it that will create the effect. You just have to call the script file from one of the startup scripts. This will register all the functions so they exist when you try to call them. Am I being too assuming?

Torque Owner Tim Ryness
#2
09/28/2004 (8:20 pm)
Thats probably not ideal, because it's a seperate tool, I guess I could modify the tool to spit out .cs files, thats a thought. Although I did get some progress after I posted, I managed to get it hooked into onAdd and the resource manager l opened the file, and I modifed my loaded to use stream, so it could load it, it loaded it and the data was good. Now I just have to figure out what went wrong next, I cheated a return to return true, and the code said basically I cheated hehe.

I guess the biggest thing here is yeah I could solve this problem other ways, but chances are at some point in time further down the road I'll need to do this, for some reason or another, and I might as well figure it out now. I know though it's going to take so more doing even though I think I'm getting closer, it's the problem of digging as you go.

Thanks for you help though, I hope I can bang my way through. I'll be very happy to get some of the old effects we had in the prior engine, I miss them :)

Vicki Ferguson
#3
09/29/2004 (7:25 am)
You might find these resources helpful:

Getting a new filetype integrated with the engine (using the Resource Manager):
www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=5225

And of course, Melv May's generic render object tutorial:
www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=3217