Newbee Marches Onward - Worldcraft Conquered!!!
by Michael Hense · in Torque Game Engine · 06/13/2002 (6:03 pm) · 0 replies
Well, not really conquered...
... but Today was Worldcraft Day, and after spending practically the whole day getting the thing configured and trying to understand what was going on, I can finally say that the basic concepts of integrating WorldCraft with the Torque system have been mastered.
I feel like I've come quite far since last weeks posts, when I was totally lost with this thing.
I made my first .map in Worldcraft, and got it succesffuly migrated into the Test mod.
It's nothing special, just a simple room with a blinking light source, but, like someone said earlier, there's nothing like the feeling you get when you see your first map up and running in the game.
I can actually run around in it, the texturing worked, and it even casts shadows on the terrain.... coool...
I also managed to answer a previous question I posted about texturing. It seems as if my textures where too dark and needed work in order to show up with any sort of 'vibrance' in Torque.
A lil adjustment with the gamma and a lil hilighting here and there did the trick (I used the textures from the robot guy as an example of how to get a shiny metalic appearance).
Also, I had scaled the model by a factor of 44... (I can hear you all laughing now).
When I first imported it, it was sooooo small, and I saw the option to scale it... so like a new dummy I just went scale crazy... needless to say, the results were less than underwhelming.
Whenever I moved a few meters from the model, the textures just blanked out, and all I had left was a dark colored shape.
It looks a lot better now...
OK, next comes scripting... I have a funny feeling that this part is gonna be the hardest.
Thanks Again for all the help (and the prayers :) )
And please forgive me for spamming the forum... it just feels so good to start to see a lil light here, that I want to share it with everyone... especially the other new guys who may be finding it a lil hard to get things moving.
--Mike
... but Today was Worldcraft Day, and after spending practically the whole day getting the thing configured and trying to understand what was going on, I can finally say that the basic concepts of integrating WorldCraft with the Torque system have been mastered.
I feel like I've come quite far since last weeks posts, when I was totally lost with this thing.
I made my first .map in Worldcraft, and got it succesffuly migrated into the Test mod.
It's nothing special, just a simple room with a blinking light source, but, like someone said earlier, there's nothing like the feeling you get when you see your first map up and running in the game.
I can actually run around in it, the texturing worked, and it even casts shadows on the terrain.... coool...
I also managed to answer a previous question I posted about texturing. It seems as if my textures where too dark and needed work in order to show up with any sort of 'vibrance' in Torque.
A lil adjustment with the gamma and a lil hilighting here and there did the trick (I used the textures from the robot guy as an example of how to get a shiny metalic appearance).
Also, I had scaled the model by a factor of 44... (I can hear you all laughing now).
When I first imported it, it was sooooo small, and I saw the option to scale it... so like a new dummy I just went scale crazy... needless to say, the results were less than underwhelming.
Whenever I moved a few meters from the model, the textures just blanked out, and all I had left was a dark colored shape.
It looks a lot better now...
OK, next comes scripting... I have a funny feeling that this part is gonna be the hardest.
Thanks Again for all the help (and the prayers :) )
And please forgive me for spamming the forum... it just feels so good to start to see a lil light here, that I want to share it with everyone... especially the other new guys who may be finding it a lil hard to get things moving.
--Mike
