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Loading new levels

by John Lopez · in Torque Game Builder · 04/09/2007 (3:10 pm) · 3 replies

This sounds like such a trivial question, but I've searched through this forum and TDN for an answer, and I have yet to find one.

How does one change from one level to another?

I've tried each of the following to get from the main menu to the first level:

sceneWindow2D.loadLevel("~/data/levels/level1.t2d");

sceneWindow2D.loadLevel("~/data/levels/level1.t2d.dso");

sceneWindow2D.getSceneGraph().loadLevel("~/data/levels/level1.t2d");

sceneWindow2D.getSceneGraph().loadLevel("~/data/levels/level1.t2d.dso");


With all of these, I just get a black screen, and on the console it says "Error loading level ~/data/levels/level1.t2d" or "Error loading level ~/data/levels/level1.t2d.dso"

I have to be doing something wrong... but I have no clue what it is.
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Torque Owner Tetraweb
#1
04/09/2007 (7:37 pm)
Try this:
%level=expandFilename("~/data/levels/level1.t2d");
 if( isFile( %level ) || isFile( %level @ ".dso")) 
	sceneWindow2D.loadLevel(%level);

Greg

Torque Owner John Lopez
#2
04/10/2007 (4:47 am)
That's what it was! I thought file functions automatically expanded the file name. Well, now I know. Thanks!

Torque Owner Jon Mitchell
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#3
04/10/2007 (8:06 am)
John,
the only problem I see is you do not have the full path to the level file.
You had it right on the money otherwise :-)

This will work through the console or simply as a standalone line of code in a function.


Example:
sceneWindow2D.loadLevel("tank_mp_test/data/levels/level1.t2d");