Loading level 2?

#1 T2D does not have explicit support for Levels or Missions so you have to script it: first unload all the resource that make up Level 1 and then load the resources that make up level 2.

Use exec() to load script files, gui files and datablocks, and use tilemap objects to load backgrounds and layers.

#2 Ok, thanks I was thinking of doing something like that. Are you aware of Levels or TGE like mission support in T2D in future?

#3 At IGC Josh Williams demo'd the Torque 2D scene editor that "Large Animal" studios contributed. It has a similiar setup to missions and the mission editor of TGE. I 'beleive' it'll be in 1.1 release though before you get your hopes up we should wait on official word with that :)

#4 Thanks Matthew :) This is great news (if GG can confirm that) <---HINT, HINT ;)

#5 Wow that's great news! Is said Scene Editor available for 1.0.2 at all? I vaguely remember seeing a post about it but just searched the forums but can't find anything about it.

#6 Anyone who was luck enough to see the scene editor for T2D demo. I am curious how "scene" is related to "tilemap" if they are integrated at all- or if scene editor can load tilemaps?

thanks

#7 I'm actually working on a similar problem. Please keep us up to date on your progress. I will do likewise.

#8 Well I am still on the paper, I hope that this weekend I'll have time to dig into this.
I will post my results if that will help :)

#9 Ok this is quite easy to create. As usual I started this more complicated than it really is.
Now I have to clean the code a little bit...so one more question:

Is it possible to unload all ImageMap at once (not specifiying every one of them) ?

Now I work this way:

bgHills01ImageMap.delete();
bgHills02ImageMap.delete();
bgHills03ImageMap.delete();
bgHills04ImageMap.delete();
bgHills05ImageMap.delete();
...

Thanks Alex Rice and rest of you for help!!!

#10 Denis, glad you are having success with it. You can try deleteAllDatablocks() [edit: DeleteDatablocks() ] which I have not tried yet myself. Also for non-datablock objects you can add them into a SimGroup then delete the SimGroup which will delete all contained objects.

#11 Where did you find about deleteAllDatablocks() ?
I am searching T2D Reference documentation but I can't find it. I also searched GG but still not able to find it.

Everything works great, I would just like to clean the code a little bit...(have to many lines=harder to read) ;)

Maybe I could go with complete scene deleting/reloading not just datablocks?

P.S. Thanks for your patience guys! ;)

#12 DeleteAllDatablocks()? There's no such method or function anywhere in T2D.

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Hans

#13 Oops it's DeleteDatablocks() not DeleteAllDatablocks(). Be forwarned- T2D will probably crash when you call it. This is beyond the scope of my expertise though... you can find forum several threads about memory management in T2D , and how to free up memory of objects no longer in use.

#14 DeleteDatablocks() is a Torquescript core function, not T2D specific. See this thread also

#15 Thanks for the link Alex. I get the idea, now let's get to work ;)