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by Anthony Ratcliffe · in Torque Game Builder · 01/12/2008 (12:16 pm) · 4 replies

Just bought the game, few questions

are there any updated tutorials or resources as 1.6 seems to have little to no support

for my end of year project we are to create a duck hunt style game clicking on a flying duck to kill it and add one to the score.

these are the things i wish to include.

joystick support a standard playstation controller, i found a tutorial on the network.

http://tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/TGB/ScriptTutorials/JoystickSetup

however it doesnt go into great detail on how to set it up i managed to get the buttons to work but not the dpad


i'd also like to add a standard pause screen much like this
http://tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/Torque_2D/StandardTutorials/Basics/PauseScreen

but again am finding the detail a bit sparse.
also any idea where i can get free art work
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Torque Owner Anthony Ratcliffe
#1
01/13/2008 (5:50 pm)
Ok little update using the fishgame tut i am using my duck animation to move accross the screen

function duck::onLevelLoaded(%this, %scenegraph)
{
%this.startPositionY = %this.getPositionX();
%this.setLinearVelocityX(getRandom(%this.minSpeed, %this.maxSpeed));
}

function duck::onWorldLimit(%this, %mode, %limit)
{
if(%limit $= "bottom")
{
%this.spawn();
}
}

function duck::spawn(%this)
{
%this.setPosition(getRandom(26, -21), %this.startPositionX);
%this.setLinearVelocityX(getRandom(%this.minSpeed, %this.maxSpeed));
}



this is the code i am using but it seems not to respawn any ideas?


another problem i have come across:

using the whack a mole tut i wish to change the animations from one called duckalive to duck dead however i cant seem to adapt the code this is wat i am using atm, and the script doesnt seem to register


function duck::onAdd(%this)
{
// enable mouse events for the mole so we can easily determine when it is clicked on
%this.setUseMouseEvents( true );
}

function duck::onMouseDown(%this, %modifier, %worldPosition, %mouseClicks)
{
if( %this.getAnimationName() $= ("duckalive") )
%this.playAnimation( "duckdead");
}

// dead is when the duck is killed
// alive animation is when its alive


regards ant

Associate Mike Lilligreen
Retired T2Der
#2
01/14/2008 (9:11 am)
For the fish game tutorial, perhaps the problem is that your duck is moving along the X axis (assuming left to right) so in onWorldLimit the spawn function call will never trigger because it's set for "bottom". Change it to "right" and see if that fixes things.

Torque Owner Anthony Ratcliffe
#3
01/14/2008 (11:38 am)
Ah thanks it worked however the animation problem persists

so insted i game up with this

function duck::onMouseDown( %this, %modifier, %worldPos, %mouseClicks )
{

%this.setLinearVelocityY(20);

}

so when it is clicked on it flys to the bottom of the screen, however this is not working but theres no script errors any help?

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Langley
Torque
#4
01/25/2008 (6:51 pm)
Try updating your onLevelLoaded to look like this

function duck::onLevelLoaded(%this, %scenegraph)
{
   %this.startPositionY = %this.getPositionX();
   %this.setLinearVelocityX(getRandom(%this.minSpeed, %this.maxSpeed));
   %this.setUseMouseEvents(true);
   SceneWindow2D.setUseObjectMouseEvents(true);
}

This should allow your duck to receive mouse events and solve both the animation and velocity problems.