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Animating Burn in DTS objects

by Zakrey Higgins · in Artist Corner · 12/01/2008 (9:53 am) · 3 replies

Okay well i have a house that is structurally built, I have no objects in it yet other than a wall and a staircase. What I want to do is build a door using .dts in 3dsmax and import it into constructor. This is a burn in, but what I want to do is animate the door in 3dsmax, to open and close, then when in constructor place that door in it, is there a way for burn in dts objects on a .dif file to be animated, I want to be able to tell the engine that when the player presses (x) key in front of the door, it opens or closes. Is there a way to do this?
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Torque Owner Timothy Castagna
TK Games LLC
#1
12/01/2008 (9:58 am)
I dont think so. you will have to place the doors as .dts objects in the world editor

Torque Owner Brian Wilson
#2
12/01/2008 (9:59 am)
I don't think this is doable in constructor. What you will want to do is build your .DIF in constructor and export it with a portal for the door. Then add the Door in as a seperate .DTS. There are quite a few door threads here already that cover the rest of your problem(the most recent being in the last couple of weeks IIRC). Just do a bit of searching.

p.s. Don't hit refresh right after posting as it will cause multiple posts. Navigate away then come back to refresh. Lame bug, I know...

Torque 3D Owner Zakrey Higgins
#3
12/01/2008 (10:02 am)
Thanks guys, I will look into this, I appreciate the help.

And yeah I tried to delete the second post but it requires moderators permission, I had canceled it so I could check the notify me box.