Problem with splash screen

#1 Can you post the code to your OnSplashFinished() method?

John K.

#2 Here it is:

public void OnSplashFinished()
{
StarterGame.Game.Instance.SceneLoader.Load(@"data\levels\levelData.txscene");
}

#3 It looks right, what actually happens when the splash screen fades to black? Do you hit an assert/exception, or does the screen just stay black permanently with no errors? Also, how do you know it reached the OnSplashFinished() method, did you set a breakpoint? Also, if you rip out the splash screen by editing the BeginRun() method and commenting out:

GUIUtil.InitGUIScreens("StarterGame");
GUICanvas.Instance.SetContentControl("GuiSplashScreen");

with:

StarterGame.Game.Instance.SceneLoader.Load(@"data\levels\levelData.txscene");

does the scene load normally? This can help determine if its a problem with the splash screen/canvas versus a problem with the level file.

John K.

#4 The screen just stays black. Yes, I set a breakpoint. The scene does load normally when I comment out those lines.

#5 I can't seem to reproduce this problem. If the OnSplashFinished() is being reached and we know that SceneLoader.Load() successfully loads the level, then the only area left to investigate is the Canvas. Do you have your own gameplay screen that derrives from GUISceneview? Maybe there is some sort of Canvas initialization problem.

John K.

#6 Not to my knowledge. I am just trying to get this to work with the rainy day tutorial. Thanks for your help thus far.

#7 Can you .zip up the project and email to me? My email address jkanalakis AT envygames DOT com. I can try to reproduce on my computer. If it works fine, then there might be an overall configuration problem on your side.

John K.

#8 Ok sent.

#9 Great, just received the file, I'll take a quick look.

John K.

#10 As I suspected, it looks like the GUICanvas was not being set. Think about the GuiCanvas as a painting canvas that can only have one rendering displayed at a time. By default, a Torque X project has a blank canvas ready to render a scene. But, when you added the splash screen, you replaced the GUICanvas with a GUISplash. When that splash screen ends, and the OnSplashFinished() method is reached, there's no renderable canvas, so you need to create one. Add the following to your OnSplashFinished() method.

public void OnSplashFinished()
{
    //load the txscene level file
    StarterGame.Game.Instance.SceneLoader.Load(@"data\levels\levelData.txscene");
 
    //create a renderable canvas for the scene
    GUIStyle stylePlayGui = new GUIStyle();
    GUISceneview playGui = new GUISceneview();
    playGui.Style = stylePlayGui;
 
    //switch over to the new canvas
    GUICanvas.Instance.SetContentControl(playGui);
}

That ought to do it.

John K.

#11 Thanks a lot, I'll try this when I get home.
Edit: Worked like a charm, thanks again.

#12 Sorry guys for the confusion. I thought I had added that code before, but guess that was in the first version of the tutorial :(. I'm really sorry and thank you Viktor for adding in the code.

BTW: Was the tutorial easy to follow/understand?

#13 No problem, mistakes are made, especially in a wiki. Thanks for taking the time to put the tutorial up. Very helpful for the GUI noob :).

#14 Thank you jonh,

I actually had this same exact problem and it helped alot.


Thank you