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Tgb particles not showing in base project

by Lajos Kamocsay · in General Discussion · 10/13/2008 (9:31 pm) · 6 replies

Hello,

I'm going through the tgb tutorials and noticed that most particle effects are not showing up in the tutorial base project. The only ones that seem to work are ggLogo and wormhole. The particles don't even play in the editor or in game. Here's a screenshot of the create particle tab:

http://www.panka.com/tmp/tgb_particles_not_showing.jpg

Any help welcome.

Thanks
-lajos
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Employee Michael Perry
ZombieShortbus
#1
10/13/2008 (9:40 pm)
@Lajos - Are you working from the online or offline docs? The online docs, which are the most recently updated, offer a solution to this problem. Check the same tutorial in the online docs. I've included the missing particle effects and how you can get them added to your project.

When the next TGB version is released, the offline docs will have the same updates.

Torque Owner Lajos Kamocsay
#2
10/14/2008 (7:57 am)
I'm using the tutorials included in the 1.7 release.
I was looking for the same beginners tutorials online, but can't find them.
How do I get to the online version?

Thanks,
-lajos

Employee Michael Perry
ZombieShortbus
#3
10/14/2008 (9:50 am)
Official TGB Documentation

The tutorials are pretty much the same. There is a new component tutorial which gets used in the others. Look for an underlined sentence, such as "If you do not know how to do this, click here." or "If you have not already done so, click here."

You can check out the component tutorial by itself here: Adding Particles Resource

Torque Owner SlowDaddie
#4
10/15/2009 (6:21 pm)
I just downloaded Torque 2D and I'm having the exact same issue. None of the particle effects except for Wormhole and Garage Games Logo is showing up.

Torque Owner SlowDaddie
#5
10/15/2009 (6:45 pm)
I checked the directory path of the particles in the Create menu to make sure they actually exist in the file. They are certainly there. I'm not sure why they wouldn't be showing up in this case.

Any help?

Torque Owner SlowDaddie
#6
10/15/2009 (6:56 pm)
I made some slight progress. I just copied all the effects from:

C:\Program Files\GarageGames\TorqueGameBuilder-1.7.4\games\TutorialBase\resources\particlesArt\images

To:
C:\Program Files\GarageGames\TorqueGameBuilder-1.7.4\tgb\resources\particlesArt\images

It made most of the particles show up. The ones still missing are
Rain
RainSplash
ShockWave
Matrix

I double checked to make sure those 4 missing effects copied over to the same places as all the other particles that were previously missing. I'm baffled why all the particles began to show up except these 4.

Thanks for any suggestions you can give me.