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Directory support for Static Sprites?

by Travis Evans · in Torque Game Builder · 03/05/2009 (6:20 pm) · 3 replies

When it comes to development, I, like most people, like to have my files organized. One thing that I've noticed and I'm sure quite a few of you too, is that when working on the game, the Static Sprites doesn't support any folder structure. So my question is, is there a way to add folder support? What I don't know is if the Game Builder is different than the Game Engine. I'm just curious.

If currently, there is no way to add this support, maybe this could be a feature with an update or new release.

Thanks
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Torque 3D Owner Jason Ravencroft
#1
03/06/2009 (5:05 am)
Could you please elaborate on this a bit? Why can't you put your sprites in different folders or are you only using the editor?

Torque Owner Travis Evans
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#2
03/06/2009 (7:03 am)
I was going to post an image but PS kept crashing on me. Got that fixed now.

What I mean is when you're building the level, you have all the images under one section, Static Sprites. This isn't very organized, especially if you have quite a few images.

gamershigh.com/archive/ggImages/TGB-FS.png

So in the image, I have my "images" folder with sub folders. These sub folders would keep the images organized. But the builder just bunches them up.

Hope that clears things up.

Torque 3D Owner Jason Ravencroft
#3
03/06/2009 (7:07 am)
Oh, that makes sense. Thanks for that effort of screenshots and all. As far as I know, there's no way to avoid that. If you look in game/managed/datablocks.cs it might be making datablock for each one in there.