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The Hitbox Tutorial

by Daniel Buckmaster · in Torque Game Engine · 06/23/2007 (12:09 am) · 5 replies

Has anyone got this working in TGE 1.5? I've integrated it and it compiles fine, but when I fire up the demo I get an immediate crash due to an 'unhandled exception' in platformMemory.cc. This tutorial looks great and I learned a lot, but I have no idea what's going on in platformMemory - or even what an unhandled exception is :P.
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    Torque Owner Ronald J Nelson
    Code Hammer Games
    #1
    06/23/2007 (12:14 am)
    Yup works fine for me.

    Sounds like you have small error somewhere. If you want I could look at your files and tell you whats wrong.

    Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
    T3D Steering Committee
    #2
    06/23/2007 (12:40 am)
    I'd really appreciate that - I'll just send player.cc, player.h, shapebase.cc and shapebase.h?
    I've made a few other source code changes, so something could be interacting strangely there.

    Torque Owner Ronald J Nelson
    Code Hammer Games
    #3
    06/23/2007 (10:52 am)
    I am very sorry, I forgot there is more than one resource for hitboxes. I am using this one:

    http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=6538

    It appears they differ greatly. If you decide you want to change to that one and have trouble, let me know.

    Torque Owner Anthony Abrams
    #4
    06/23/2007 (1:33 pm)
    I've tried both resources (mainly to see which one performs better).

    @Daniel:

    I have gotten the hitbox tutorial to work in TGE 1.5. With no real problems. I did not run into any unhandled exception in platformMemory. There was a part of the resource where he said that if you forgot to do a certain step TGE would crash all the time. Look for the part talking about : if(mSceneManager->getCurrentDecalManager()) //Raistlin : and make sure that you did that and put it in the right place. That might be what your problem is

    Torque Owner Ronald J Nelson
    Code Hammer Games
    #5
    06/23/2007 (3:22 pm)
    I must admit the one I am using does work better for my needs since I am also using hitboxes on vehicles to create a damage system.