TGEA possible bugs.
by xGamer · in Torque Game Engine · 05/07/2008 (2:46 pm) · 3 replies
Hello,
I've come across a few bugs in TGEA Forge Demo that possible exist in TGEA or maybe not. But I figured it may be helpful to post them so here goes.
I excavated some terrain to be almost exact as an MMO screenshot I used for reference, But then I went to the editor to add water, I typed in stream for the name and hit ok. Then it crashed. It crashes everytime I try to add water.
http://i26.tinypic.com/2u70hnp.jpg
This was what I was replicating as I want to develop something simular if TGEA can do it.
http://i25.tinypic.com/kss2c.jpg
If you are painting terrains, When you go to select one of the 6 allowed textures, it gives you the windows browse thingy so that you can browse and search for one of the textures. Normally, you would use thumbnail settings to see them, but if you select preview from windows to view the image with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer or whatever, Everything on screen will freeze as soon as you click preview and the only way out is cntrl+alt+del.
Not sure if there were anymore. I gave up after those two. I was testing the terrain tools to see if these could be simular for a small MMO project that I have in mind. TGEA seems to be the best fit but I am hoping that these bugs only exist in the demo.
Chris
BTW: I have a newer gaming pc, XP Pro x64. Latest directx, latest nvidia drivers and 9600 GT OC cards.
I've come across a few bugs in TGEA Forge Demo that possible exist in TGEA or maybe not. But I figured it may be helpful to post them so here goes.
I excavated some terrain to be almost exact as an MMO screenshot I used for reference, But then I went to the editor to add water, I typed in stream for the name and hit ok. Then it crashed. It crashes everytime I try to add water.
http://i26.tinypic.com/2u70hnp.jpg
This was what I was replicating as I want to develop something simular if TGEA can do it.
http://i25.tinypic.com/kss2c.jpg
If you are painting terrains, When you go to select one of the 6 allowed textures, it gives you the windows browse thingy so that you can browse and search for one of the textures. Normally, you would use thumbnail settings to see them, but if you select preview from windows to view the image with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer or whatever, Everything on screen will freeze as soon as you click preview and the only way out is cntrl+alt+del.
Not sure if there were anymore. I gave up after those two. I was testing the terrain tools to see if these could be simular for a small MMO project that I have in mind. TGEA seems to be the best fit but I am hoping that these bugs only exist in the demo.
Chris
BTW: I have a newer gaming pc, XP Pro x64. Latest directx, latest nvidia drivers and 9600 GT OC cards.
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#2
If you right click and choose preview on any image that windows supports, bmp, jpg, png, gif ect while in any of the editor windows such as the texture chooser, it will freeze.
I've also found that if you load any big models such as a castle or at times, the tower in the demo, when you add it to the map and then select and delete it without saving, the forge demo crashes as well.
Chris
05/09/2008 (1:04 am)
Hello,If you right click and choose preview on any image that windows supports, bmp, jpg, png, gif ect while in any of the editor windows such as the texture chooser, it will freeze.
I've also found that if you load any big models such as a castle or at times, the tower in the demo, when you add it to the map and then select and delete it without saving, the forge demo crashes as well.
Chris
#3
No success reproducing this. The preview comes up just fine. Since this is all happening inside the Windows shell, it's a bit unlikely that Torque has it's fingers in here.
Had consistent crashes when pressing "Cancel", though.
- Crash with large model
Still have to check this...
05/09/2008 (1:36 am)
- Freeze on launching image previewNo success reproducing this. The preview comes up just fine. Since this is all happening inside the Windows shell, it's a bit unlikely that Torque has it's fingers in here.
Had consistent crashes when pressing "Cancel", though.
- Crash with large model
Still have to check this...
Associate Rene Damm
That's a known and confirmed issue. Likely fixed real-soon-now.
- Hang in preview of file sel
Very odd. Torque just uses that dialog like any other, so it's strange that it should cause such a malfunction.