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VisibilityLevel problems

by Vishal Bhanderi · in Torque X 2D · 10/24/2008 (12:44 pm) · 2 replies

Hi guys,

I'm trying change the object's visibility level, but everytime I change it, it just resets itself. I'm trying to make the platformer kit's actor flash when he get's hit. I can't even get it to work with the starter code (the GG logo).

Any idea's ?

Thanks
Vishal
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Torque Owner Zilla
#1
10/25/2008 (12:16 am)
Maybe this will help:
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=74517

Torque Owner Vishal Bhanderi
#2
10/26/2008 (3:24 am)
Thanks Zilla. I managed to get the VisibiltyLevel working on the GG logo, but not yet on the platformer. Even though I mark the textures like:

<SimpleMaterial name="jumpMaterial" type="GarageGames.Torque.Materials.SimpleMaterial">
			<TextureFilename>data/images/dragon/jump.png</TextureFilename>
			<IsTranslucent>true</IsTranslucent>
			<IsColorBlended>true</IsColorBlended>

I still don't see the changes. I've also tried calling this fragment of code when I want to change the visibility:

T2DAnimatedSprite animatedSprite = AnimatedSprite;
SimpleMaterial _renderMaterial = animatedSprite.AnimationData.Material as SimpleMaterial;
_renderMaterial.IsTranslucent = true;
_renderMaterial.IsColorBlended = true;
AnimatedSprite.VisibilityLevel = 0.3f;

But this still doesn't seem to work. Any other idea's?

Also when modifying the xml sceneData manually and then using TXB's save. It overwrites anything you manually added. Is there a way to stop it doing this?