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Render to Texture

by Mike Kuklinski · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 04/01/2005 (9:55 pm) · 7 replies

Has anyone experimented with rendering to texture?

I want to render a HUD to a face on a vehicle -- I am just not sure as to how this would be done.
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Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
#1
04/01/2005 (10:05 pm)
Pat added this ability to TGE 1.4. If i understand correctly only TGE 1.3 will be merged into TSE head when milestone 3 begins, so i guess we won't see this feature officually in TSE for a while. I'm planning on manually merging the feature as i need soon.

There is also Pat's old resource which does something similar.

Torque Owner Mike Kuklinski
#2
04/01/2005 (10:21 pm)
Well---the TSE product page states that TSE supports Render-to-Texture, and uses 3d HUDs as an example...

Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
#3
04/01/2005 (10:25 pm)
Didn't notice this, but your right. I guess i need to dig further to see how to render a GUI to texture to be attached to a DTS shape.

Torque Owner Mike Kuklinski
#4
04/01/2005 (10:34 pm)
If you figure it out, let me know. I have barely dug into the new API or how things render.

Associate Matt Fairfax
PopCap
#5
04/02/2005 (1:50 am)
Take a look in the blender code for a good example of render-to-texture

Torque Owner Mike Kuklinski
#6
04/02/2005 (11:02 am)
The Terrain Blender?

Associate Kyle Carter
#7
04/02/2005 (2:34 pm)
Or the reflection code, or the refraction code, or the glow buffer code...