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Zip/KMZ as folder containers for shapes

by Joshua Halls (Xerves) · in Torque 3D Professional · 06/02/2009 (1:11 pm) · 3 replies

docs.garagegames.com/t3d/official/content/documentation/Artist%20Section/Collada...

Noticed this when I was reading the documentation. It says that it can take the kmz file and open it up and pull out the files. While I haven't tried this in a datablock as specified, I wanted to see if it showed up in the World Editor shapes list and it did not. Any idea if this is going to be included? Would be really nice as a lot of purchased assets have certain requirements and this is a fairly common practice with released games.

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    Torque 3D Owner Bloodknight
    Bloodknight Studios
    #1
    06/02/2009 (5:47 pm)
    a thread in TGEA forums discusses the fact that the functionality of the zip resource was broken somweher between 1.7.1 and 1.8.1 due to the addition of an extra resource manager, since 1.8.1 and T3D share a good portion of their codebases the hopefully soon to be fixed 1.8.1 will also be added to beta 3 :)

    Associate Chris Robertson
    #2
    06/02/2009 (8:38 pm)
    Hi Joshua,

    Those docs were written just before some major changes were made to the T3D resource manager. Changes that (for now) do not support assets inside zip files (kmz is just a zip file). As soon as that support is added back, you will be able to see such assets inside the World Editor tree again.

    Torque 3D Owner Joshua Halls (Xerves)
    #3
    06/02/2009 (10:40 pm)
    Cool, just checking out the status if it was suppose to be that way or not. Not a big deal as there are other things to address first.