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My problem with "Fish game tutorial

by Firas · in Torque Game Builder · 07/08/2006 (8:32 am) · 6 replies

I'm trying to implement the "Fish game tutorial" I'm in the second part of this tutorial "moving a fish" I have implement the script just like the parts say but I don't why it's not working :(

what I notice is that when I start the TGB and start the level there is no player.cs.dso file (the compiled vesrion of the player.cs)

I sure I have add a call to it in game.cs like this:

exec("./player.cs");

and this is the implementation of the player.cs:

function PlayerFish::onLevelLoaded(%this, %scenegraph)
{
$FishPlayer = %this;

moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "w", "fishPlayerUp();", "fishPlayerUpStop();");
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "s", "fishPlayerDown();", "fishPlayerDownStop();");
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "a", "fishPlayerLeft();", "fishPlayerLeftStop();");
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "d", "fishPlayerRight();", "fishPlayerRightStop();");
}

function fishPlayerUp()
{
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityY( -15 );
}

function fishPlayerDown()
{
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityY( 15 );
}

function fishPlayerLeft()
{
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityX( -30 );
}

function fishPlayerRight()
{
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityX( 30 );
}

function fishPlayerUpStop()
{
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityY( 0 );
}

function fishPlayerDownStop()
{
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityY( 0 );
}

function fishPlayerLeftStop()
{
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityX( 0 );
}

function fishPlayerRightStop()
{
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityX( 0 );
}

and I have add the "PlayerFish" to the fish in class field in the scripting part in TGB.

please help

thanks in advance.
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Torque Owner Matthew Zulawski
#1
07/08/2006 (11:32 am)
I'm working through the same tutorial. I took a scan through your work, and don't notice anything out of the ordinary.

One thing that I found in the reference is that you can use an echo command to output text to the console (which you can bring up by hitting ~ when the game starts). So change your up function to the following:

function fishPlayerUp()
{
echo("Up Detected");
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityY( -15 );
}

Start your game up and hit w. Then, hit ~, and if "Up Detected" isn't the last line there, then the game isn't hitting your function.

Torque Owner Firas
#2
07/08/2006 (11:58 pm)
Yes thats right it's not hitting the function and I can't find a reason why that happen?

please check your gamescripts folder do you have a file called player.cs.dso (the compiled version of player.cs)?

I'm asking this beacuse in my console window I have the following message:
Executing MyFishGame/GameScripts/player.cs

but I can't see a compiled version of that file (I mean player.cs.dso), any ideas why this problem happen??

thanks in advance

Torque Owner Eric Johnson
#3
07/09/2006 (1:41 am)
You won't get a 'player.cs.dso' file, it runs without creating a " ".dso Please don't ask me why:) I just did the 'MyFishGame' Tutorial and I don't have one.

Torque Owner Eric Johnson
#4
07/09/2006 (1:48 am)
Have you tried first deleting your old 'game.cs.dso' and then try running the game?

Torque Owner Matthew Zulawski
#5
07/09/2006 (10:28 am)
Cut and pasted your code into an empty MyFishGame project and it works fine when I hit play.

When I ran the project, it created a .dso. Out of curiosity, I deleted it and ran the project again. It recreated the .dso file and functioned properly.

Dunno what the problem would be. I'd say start a new project and cut and paste your code in. If it doesn't work again, the problem is of a different scope altogether.

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Langley
Torque
#6
07/10/2006 (5:19 pm)
Feel free to zip up your working directory and e-mail me it and I'll take a look :)

mattl AT garagegames DOT com