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Ground Transforms

by Jeremy Swigart · in Torque Game Builder · 02/23/2006 (5:01 pm) · 3 replies

Do ground transforms work in T2d? Also, does reinstatedsoldier.dts have ground transforms?

Can someone clarify ground transforms for me.

From the information I've read so far, if the bounding box moves as part of a sequence that you export, it will have a ground transform exported for it.

If my understanding is correct, if you export a walk animation and a run animation, with the bounding box translating the appropriate velocity based on the animation. That the engine can use the velocity information from that ground transform to automatically blend between walk-run based on the velocity of the player or something.

Is this correct?

I can't find any clear documentation about how to set this up.

Anyone?

J
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Torque 3D Owner Stephen Zepp
#1
02/23/2006 (5:31 pm)
I think you are confusing the capabilities of TSShape shapes in Torque and how they can interact with the environment, with TGB's (limited) capability to simply render 3D shapes that happen to be in the dts format.

Ground transforms have zero to do with TGB, since there is no terrain to interact with.

Torque Owner Jeremy Swigart
#2
02/23/2006 (5:36 pm)
My understanding of the documentation I've read seem to imply that its based on velocity, which T2d shapes can have as well.

Ok, assuming the ground transforms are useless in t2d, is there other such functionality that may help the blending of various movement animations in a 3dshape? Or do I need to put something in myself?

Thanks
J

Torque 3D Owner Stephen Zepp
#3
02/24/2006 (7:46 am)
I mentioned it more in depth in the other thread, but take a look at (TGE code) Player.cc, Player::pickActionAnimation, and refer to PlayerData::actionAnimationDef (table) in the same file, and it should help you to adapt the concept over to t2D. It's not currently done for you however.