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Question about skin (texturing)swapping on chapter 16

by Jerry Moore · in Torque Game Engine · 03/22/2006 (7:05 pm) · 3 replies

As dumb as this sounds, I am asking one question why doesn't This work? I must be missing something. all I get is one texture in the dynamic field( no cycling of the texture but when I click on the dynamic fieldI get changing numerical value. It works for the traffic light because that was in the book. I have checked to see that the waterfall.dts is in the right folder and the texture I am trying to cycle from start.water.png to third.water.png.
basically I have four textures which are start.water.png, first.water.png, second.water.png, third.water.png.please help.

$OFF_STATE     = 0;
$GREEN_STATE   = 1;
$YELLOW_STATE  = 2;
$RED_STATE     = 3;

datablock ItemData(TrafficLight)
{
  category = "VariableSkinItems";
  shapeFile = "~/data/shapes/traffic/trafficlight.dts";

DELAY[$OFF_STATE]    = 10;
DELAY[$GREEN_STATE]  = 15 * 1000;
DELAY[$YELLOW_STATE] = 2 * 1000;
DELAY[$RED_STATE]    = 10 * 1000;

SKIN[$OFF_STATE]    = "base";
SKIN[$GREEN_STATE]  = "green";
SKIN[$YELLOW_STATE] = "yellow";
SKIN[$RED_STATE]    = "red";

};

function TrafficLight::onAdd(%theDatablock, %whichLightPole)
{
  %whichLightPole.rotate = false;
  %whichLightPole.state = $OFF_STATE;
  %whichLightPole.setSkinName(%theDatablock.SKIN[$OFF_STATE]);
  %theDatablock.schedule(%theDatablock.DELAY[%whichLightPole.state], 
                                               "Sequence", %whichLightPole);
}

function TrafficLight::Sequence(%theDatablock, %whichLightPole)
{
  %whichLightPole.state++;
  if (%whichLightPole.state > $RED_STATE)
    %whichLightPole.state = $GREEN_STATE;
  %whichLightPole.setSkinName(%theDatablock.SKIN[%whichLightPole.state]);
  %theDatablock.schedule(%theDatablock.DELAY[%whichLightPole.state], 
                                                 "Sequence", %whichLightPole);
}
$START_STATE   = 0;
$FIRST_STATE   = 1;
$SECOND_STATE  = 2;
$THIRD_STATE   = 3;

datablock ItemData(WaterFall)
{
  category = "VariableSkinItems";
 shapeFile = "~/data/shapes/waterfall/waterfall.dts";
DELAY[$START_STATE]   = 10;
DELAY[$FIRST_STATE]  = 15 * 100;
DELAY[$SECOND_STATE] =  2 * 100;
DELAY[$THIRD_STATE]  = 10 * 100;

SKIN[$START_STATE]   = "wstart";
SKIN[$FIRST_STATE]   = "wfirst";
SKIN[$SECOND_STATE]  = "wsecond";
SKIN[$THIRD_STATE]   = "wthird";

};

function WaterFall::onAdd(%theDatablock, %whichWaterFall)
{
  //%whichWaterFall.rotate = false;
  %whichWaterFall.state = $START_STATE;
  %whichWaterFall.setSkinName(%theDatablock.SKIN[$START_STATE]);
  %theDatablock.schedule(%theDatablock.DELAY[%whichWaterFall.state], 
                                               "Sequence", %whichWaterFall);
}

function WaterFall::Sequence(%theDatablock, %whichWaterFall)
{
  %whichWaterFall.state++;
  if (%whichWaterFall.state > $THIRD_STATE)
    %whichWaterFall.state = $FIRST_STATE;
  %whichWaterFall.setSkinName(%theDatablock.SKIN[%whichWaterFall.state]);
  %theDatablock.schedule(%theDatablock.DELAY[%whichWaterFall.state], 
                                                 "Sequence", %whichWaterFall);
}
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Torque Owner Dracola
#1
03/22/2006 (9:18 pm)
Are you sure you can have arrayed variables in a datablock I've never seen that done before. try pulling them out.
$OFF_STATE     = 0;
$GREEN_STATE   = 1;
$YELLOW_STATE  = 2;
$RED_STATE     = 3;

datablock ItemData(TrafficLight)
{
  category = "VariableSkinItems";
  shapeFile = "~/data/shapes/traffic/trafficlight.dts";
};
$DELAY[$OFF_STATE]    = 10;
$DELAY[$GREEN_STATE]  = 15 * 1000;
$DELAY[$YELLOW_STATE] = 2 * 1000;
$DELAY[$RED_STATE]    = 10 * 1000;

$SKIN[$OFF_STATE]    = "base";
$SKIN[$GREEN_STATE]  = "green";
$SKIN[$YELLOW_STATE] = "yellow";
$SKIN[$RED_STATE]    = "red";

function TrafficLight::onAdd(%theDatablock, %whichLightPole)
{
  %whichLightPole.rotate = false;
  %whichLightPole.state = $OFF_STATE;
  %whichLightPole.setSkinName($SKIN[$OFF_STATE]);
  %theDatablock.schedule($DELAY[%whichLightPole.state], 
                                               "Sequence", %whichLightPole);
}

function TrafficLight::Sequence(%theDatablock, %whichLightPole)
{
  %whichLightPole.state++;
  if (%whichLightPole.state > $RED_STATE)
    %whichLightPole.state = $GREEN_STATE;
  %whichLightPole.setSkinName($SKIN[%whichLightPole.state]);
  %theDatablock.schedule($DELAY[%whichLightPole.state], 
                                                 "Sequence", %whichLightPole);
}

try that and look at you're console to see if you are getting errors.

Torque 3D Owner Sean H.
#2
03/23/2006 (7:39 am)
Your texture names all have "w" in front of them in the datablock. do the texture filenames also begin with "w"?

Jacco Jansen
#3
04/05/2006 (6:19 am)
Well, actually, as I understand it as explained in the second edition of this book, the model's base texture must be called BASE.soemthing.something.

Notice his also:
Quote:
SKIN[$OFF_STATE] = "base";
SKIN[$GREEN_STATE] = "green";
SKIN[$YELLOW_STATE] = "yellow";
SKIN[$RED_STATE] = "red";

rename your first texture to base and set the actual model file to point to this file then export again. From what I understand, when Torque loads a shapefile and finds a three part filename starting with 'base', it THEN assumes the file has multiple textures and will allow you to swop them.


I just got into the habit of always naming my textures base.whatever.jpg when I make my models, just in case I later want to change the skin, then I don't have to recompile my shapes.