3D World Studio Wiki

#1 In your wiki, it says"However, Torque Game Engine only supports .jpg and .bmp textures."

It also supports .png and .tga , maybe others too, but I haven't had need of more.

#2

Quote:
In your wiki, it says"However, Torque Game Engine only supports .jpg and .bmp textures."

It also supports .png and .tga , maybe others too, but I haven't had need of more.

Fixed :]

It's a wiki, if you see an inaccuracy, you can always go in and fix it.

#3 Ya, I didn't want to edit it, as cShop didn't support png tga etc, so I wasn't sure if that was perhaps the reason it was written like that.

#4 The site you linked to is TheGameCreators.com. They sell the program as well, but they handle their orders separately from me. I sent your order. I send them out about once or twice a day. Thank you.

I am going to add .dts mesh import and .mis export. I just set up the .b3d exporter, which has the option to launch a Blitz3D program and run the map when exported. Ultimately, i want to set this up so you can export a Torque .mis file and run the map in your own Torque project, in a single step.

#5 I've held off on buying World Studio because I haven't found anything that made it a need rather than a want over cShop, and I'm sure alot of others stand there as well.
But if it gets to where you can export to a .mis with lighting etc etc, we'll be buying a few copies. I'm sure a ton of people would upgrade for that.

#6 .mis export?

As in, designing a complete mission file in 3DWS, including .dts objects and then exporting it?

#7 That is precisely what TGE/TSE needs.

#8 I think so, too :-).

#9 Are there any specs on the .mis or .dts file formats?

If .mis is an ASCII format, I can probably have an exporter working some time today. .dts loading will take a little longer.

#10 Just mailed a sample to you.

#11 Aw, beat me to it! :)

#12 That was extremely easy.

-Terrain will not be supported until I add terrain in the editor.
-The .mis file will export a mission that loads one instance of the current map, and places it at 0,0,0.
-All .mis files parameters can be handled with point entities.

Can Torque programs be launched with a commandline to tell it what .mis to load? If so, I can make it so you can export and launch your Torque game right from the editor.

#13 OOOO Spiffy!

That I don't know. I would assume so, however someone who does know should answer that :)

#14 Hey Josh, you can use the command line param "-mission" to specify a mission to load.

#15 Josh:

Why is the .b3d tutorial on Meta-Wiki? That seems highly inappropriate to me. I've copied the content to Wikipedia. You may wish to upload the missing image to Wikipedia as I don't know the licence you want to use.

Wikicities may also be a more appropiate host than Wikipedia.

#16 I got wiki-lost on that wiki-wiki-website.

I downloaded mediawiki and installed it on my own server. Will post a link when it is ready.

I didn't realize that wikipedia was just one wiki. I thought it was just a unique web site.

#17 @josh: I second Andrews statement.

I acchieved the direct loading of mission files by making these changes. I used starter.fps as a starting point.
1. open client/init.cs and locate loadMainMenu. Replace it with:

function loadMainMenu()
{

if ($missionArg !$= "") {

      Canvas.setCursor("DefaultCursor");
   createServer("SinglePlayer", $missionArg);
   // Make a local connection
   %conn = new GameConnection(ServerConnection);
   RootGroup.add(ServerConnection);
   %conn.setConnectArgs("Player");
   %conn.setJoinPassword("None");
   %conn.connectLocal();
   }
   else
  {
   // Startup the client with the Main menu...
   Canvas.setContent( MainMenuGui );

   // Make sure the audio initialized.
   if($Audio::initFailed) {
      MessageBoxOK("Audio Initialization Failed", 
         "The OpenAL audio system failed to initialize.  " @
         "You can get the most recent OpenAL drivers <a:www.garagegames.com/docs/torque/gstarted/openal.html>here</a>.");
   }

   Canvas.setCursor("DefaultCursor");
   }
}

2 (Variant A).
To disable the splashscreen you can either edit client/init.cs in line 112
by commenting out

// loadStartup();

and inserting

loadMainMenu();

2 (Variant B).
But the proper way would be to introduce a flag 'skipsplash' as a command line parameter, so better edit project.base/main.cs
and insert after

switch$ (%arg)
    {

this here

//--------------------
         case "-skipsplash":
            $skipsplash=1;

and in client/init.cs

if ( $skipsplash $= 1 )
      {
        loadMainMenu(); 
      }
      else
      {
        loadStartup();
      }

With these two modification (1. and 2b.) you would start Torque like

torqueDemo.exe -game starter.fps -mission project.base/data/missions/mission2.mis -skipsplash

#18 Okay, I set up a real wiki. I didn't realize wikipedia was just one wiki:
www.leadwerks.com/developer

#19 The page on Meta has been deleted, and the two tutorials on Wikipedia have been marked for deletion - "Wikipedia is not a software manual or collection of howtos." It also appears someone undeleted the Wikipedia entry for you on 3D World Studio :) The Wikipedia community's speed never ceases to amaze me.

#20 The more I play with it, the more I am liking Torque. I really want my editor to integrate well with Torque, and I want to put a lot of effort into presenting good tutorials and documentation.

I uploaded a killer tutorial for Blitz3D, but no one seemed to notice. I need to finish the .dbo exporter, then I am going to look at writing a Torque entity definition file, and a mission exporter.

I am considering using Torque in the future, especially because of the XBox 360 deal.