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Saving Custom Objects

by Jendrik Posche · in Torque Game Engine · 05/05/2008 (6:00 am) · 4 replies

Hi All,

I derived my own object from sceneobject. I also created a datablock in torquescript. When I load the world editor , i can add my object to the world. I see my object and I can set some properties.
However when I look into the object/scene tree, my derived object doesn't show up in that list. Also when i save the mission, the object isn't saved.

Any ideas what I should do in order to make my own derived object saveable and show up in the scene tree in world editor?

Regards
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Torque Owner Nathan Kent
#1
05/05/2008 (2:29 pm)
I think the save() method is from GameBase, so you should just be able to call the ConsoleMethod GameBase::Save(). Don't quote me on that until you try it, I'm not sure exactly what the Save method is for, but I'm pretty sure.

Torque Owner Jendrik Posche
#2
05/06/2008 (1:53 am)
I'm using tge 1.5.2 and my gamebase doesn't have a save() function, nor a consolemethod save

Associate James Ford
Sickhead Games
#3
05/06/2008 (9:08 am)
Its from SimObject::Save() - but you shouldn't need to directly call that for it to save/load from the editor. You might be missing one of the important steps when making a "console object".

You need "typedef SimObject Parent" somewhere inside your class.
You need to override / define onAdd, onRemove, and probably initPersistFields for your class. ( Make sure you are properly calling the Parent's overriden function inside each as well ).
You need "DECLARE_CONOBJECT(MyClassName);" somewhere in the .h ( I put it right below the constructor ).
You need "IMPLEMENT_CO_NETOBJECT_V1(MyClassName);" somewhere in the .cpp ( I put it right at the top - under the includes )

These steps ( and more info ) are documented in the source file simObject.h

Torque Owner Jendrik Posche
#4
05/07/2008 (1:36 am)
Thanks, I'll look into this.