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Changing Levels?

by Simon Jensen · in Torque Game Builder · 08/03/2006 (1:51 pm) · 5 replies

Ok pardon me if this is incredibly stupid...

So I've got a Main Menu level which has a staticSprite button (called GoButton) that when you click is supposed to load the main level.


function GoButton::onMouseDown(%this, %modifier, %worldPos, %mouseClicks)
{		
	sceneWindow2D.endLevel();
	sceneWindow2D.loadLevel("BombBots/data/levels/mainMenu.t2d");
	exec("BombBots/gameScripts/bombBots.cs");			
	InitBots(); // located in bombBots.cs
}

the function is being called correctly. but it crashes TGB about 2/3ds of the timeas it is.. Did I completely miss the boat on how to change levels?
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Torque Owner Michael Woerister
#1
08/03/2006 (2:11 pm)
I guess this is because the GoButton gets deleted in the endLevel() call while program is still in a callback triggered by this object. Try something like this:

function startGameOrSomething()
{
    sceneWindow2D.endLevel();
    sceneWindow2D.loadLevel("BombBots/data/levels/mainMenu.t2d");
    exec("BombBots/gameScripts/bombBots.cs");			
    InitBots(); // located in bombBots.cs
}

function GoButton::onMouseDown(%this, %modifier, %worldPos, %mouseClicks)
{
    schedule(0, 0, startGameOrSomething );
}

Torque 3D Owner Simon Jensen
SwiftThought Games
#2
08/03/2006 (2:47 pm)
Thanks for the quick response!

I just tried that and it didn't seem to make a difference but at least i got to try scheduling :)

I Found the problem..
If I delete the persistent.cs.dso file between running TGB it works every time.

my persistent.cs only contains the following 
$persistentObjectSet = new SimSet() {
   canSaveDynamicFields = "1";
      setType = "Persistent";
};
Any idea what this is supposed to do?

also.. I deleted the .dso's in the gameScripts folder and the splash.cs (where the above functions are located) does not seem to be getting a new dso generated for it... is that normal?

Torque Owner Michael Woerister
#3
08/03/2006 (3:00 pm)
Quote:
also.. I deleted the .dso's in the gameScripts folder and the splash.cs (where the above functions are located) does not seem to be getting a new dso generated for it... is that normal?

No, I don't think that's normal. Do you get any compilation errors?

Torque 3D Owner Simon Jensen
SwiftThought Games
#4
08/03/2006 (3:11 pm)
Nope, no compilation errors. And function calls to things in splash.cs seems to work just fine.
Did a search of the TGB dir to see if it was being placed somewhere else but it isnt..

Torque Owner Michael Woerister
#5
08/03/2006 (3:24 pm)
I think there is an option prefs.cs that turns off dso creation but I've never looked into that. Maybe that is turned on. Don't know.