Racing Starter Kit car dissapears.
by Peterjohn Griffiths · in Torque Game Engine · 02/22/2006 (7:07 pm) · 7 replies
Hi all,
I am trying to find out why the body of the car in the Racing Starter Kit dissapears when it moves down the level of details twice. It displays fine up close, displayes fine up to two car lengths away but only the wheels and the suspension show up if I am further way.
I think this has something to do with the LOD (Level of detail) but am unsure how the engine handles this. Could it be a script pointing to a wrong frame?.
Has anyone else come across this?
Pictures of the problem can be found here.
http://www.uk-pc-gamers.com/torque.htm
Many thanks in advance.
Pejayuk.
I am trying to find out why the body of the car in the Racing Starter Kit dissapears when it moves down the level of details twice. It displays fine up close, displayes fine up to two car lengths away but only the wheels and the suspension show up if I am further way.
I think this has something to do with the LOD (Level of detail) but am unsure how the engine handles this. Could it be a script pointing to a wrong frame?.
Has anyone else come across this?
Pictures of the problem can be found here.
http://www.uk-pc-gamers.com/torque.htm
Many thanks in advance.
Pejayuk.
#2
In hierachy view in 3dsmax the models (all LOD's) must be linked to Start01 and the corrosponding detail helper is to be linked to Base01.
Hope this helps
02/22/2006 (8:34 pm)
Im pretty confident its LOD or linking the hierachy in max.In hierachy view in 3dsmax the models (all LOD's) must be linked to Start01 and the corrosponding detail helper is to be linked to Base01.
Hope this helps
#3
Has anyone got the moddel from a previous version of TorqueGameEngineSDK that I could have to fix this problem or could the people at GarrageGames fix the problem with the current release please.
Many thanks
Pejayuk.
02/23/2006 (8:23 pm)
I have re-downloaded the TorqueGameEngineSDK-1-4.exe and tested in the newly extracted files folder and this also has the same problem. I downloaded TorqueDemo-Installer-1-4.exe and tested in its newly extracted files folder and this one doesn't do it, but the model doesn't seem as good graphicaly as the modle in the TorqueGameEngineSDK-1-4.exe.Has anyone got the moddel from a previous version of TorqueGameEngineSDK that I could have to fix this problem or could the people at GarrageGames fix the problem with the current release please.
Many thanks
Pejayuk.
#5
02/28/2006 (1:00 am)
Have you had any joy?.
#6
02/28/2006 (4:23 am)
I encountered and posted about this previously, when I implemented advanced camera and moved the camera too far away I got the same problem, using bravetree's car model it didn't happen so it seems to be something specific to the buggy model itself.
#7
04/28/2006 (3:13 pm)
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