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IFL Animations Not Working In-Game

by Edward A. Kimsa-Rowntree · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 12/13/2007 (1:34 pm) · 4 replies

We've created a billboard with an IFL animation. Its working correctly in showtool, but no matter what we do when we pull it into the game as a static shape it doesn't work. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Torque 3D Owner Marc Dreamora Schaerer
Gayasoft
#1
12/13/2007 (2:51 pm)
Showtool has quite nothing to do with TGEAs handling for that.

TGEA has material features to do this kind of effects.

Torque Owner Ivan Mandzhukov
Liman3D
#2
12/14/2007 (10:06 am)
IFL is correctly working in TGEA. There is nothing common with material. The IFL animations in TGEA are played based on sequences. So you have to make a sequence in 3ds max for the IFL animation and export the object with this sequence. Then you play the IFL animation in TGEA using PlayThread().
describe the steps you do, there is something wrong
you probably make a mistake

Torque Owner Edward A. Kimsa-Rowntree
#3
12/20/2007 (12:15 pm)
Animation is working now, however the png transparency isn't. Does anyone have an example material script, or something, to enable transparency in a IFL that uses PNG?

Torque Owner Ivan Mandzhukov
Liman3D
#4
12/21/2007 (2:14 am)
TGEA uses the alpha pipe for transparency (material/custommaterial).