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WorldEditor FPS hud

by Justin Knight · 04/24/2012 (7:45 am) · 4 comments

In tools/worldEditor/gui/EditorGui.ed.gui line 312, add:
new GuiContainer(statsBar) { 
      margin = "0 0 0 0"; 
      padding = "0 0 0 0"; 
      anchorTop = "1"; 
      anchorBottom = "0"; 
      anchorLeft = "1"; 
      anchorRight = "0"; 
      position = "200 690"; 
      extent = "398 29"; 
      minExtent = "8 2"; 
      horizSizing = "right"; 
      vertSizing = "bottom"; 
      profile = "GuiMenuBarProfile"; 
      visible = "1"; 
      active = "1"; 
      tooltipProfile = "GuiToolTipProfile"; 
      hovertime = "1000"; 
      isContainer = "1"; 
      canSave = "1"; 
      canSaveDynamicFields = "0"; 

      new GuiTextCtrl(editorPolyLabel) { 
        text = "Poly:69086"; 
        maxLength = "1024"; 
        margin = "0 0 0 0"; 
        padding = "0 0 0 0"; 
        anchorTop = "1"; 
        anchorBottom = "0"; 
        anchorLeft = "1"; 
        anchorRight = "0"; 
        position = "20 0"; 
        extent = "130 28"; 
        minExtent = "8 2"; 
        horizSizing = "right"; 
        vertSizing = "bottom"; 
        profile = "GuiMediumTextProfile"; 
        visible = "1"; 
        active = "1"; 
        tooltipProfile = "GuiToolTipProfile"; 
        hovertime = "1000"; 
        isContainer = "0"; 
        canSave = "1"; 
        canSaveDynamicFields = "0"; 
      }; 
      new GuiTextCtrl(editorFPSLabel) { 
        text = "FPS:90.1"; 
        maxLength = "1024"; 
        margin = "0 0 0 0"; 
        padding = "0 0 0 0"; 
        anchorTop = "1"; 
        anchorBottom = "0"; 
        anchorLeft = "1"; 
        anchorRight = "0"; 
        position = "160 0"; 
        extent = "110 28"; 
        minExtent = "8 2"; 
        horizSizing = "right"; 
        vertSizing = "bottom"; 
        profile = "GuiMediumTextProfile"; 
        visible = "1"; 
        active = "1"; 
        tooltipProfile = "GuiToolTipProfile"; 
        hovertime = "1000"; 
        isContainer = "0"; 
        canSave = "1"; 
        canSaveDynamicFields = "0"; 
      }; 
      new GuiTextCtrl(editorDrawLabel) { 
        maxLength = "1024"; 
        margin = "0 0 0 0"; 
        padding = "0 0 0 0"; 
        anchorTop = "1"; 
        anchorBottom = "0"; 
        anchorLeft = "1"; 
        anchorRight = "0"; 
        position = "275 0"; 
        extent = "120 28"; 
        minExtent = "8 2"; 
        horizSizing = "right"; 
        vertSizing = "bottom"; 
        profile = "GuiMediumTextProfile"; 
        visible = "1"; 
        active = "1"; 
        tooltipProfile = "GuiToolTipProfile"; 
        hovertime = "1000"; 
        isContainer = "0"; 
        canSave = "1"; 
        canSaveDynamicFields = "0"; 
      }; 
  };
This adds the HUD to the WorldEditor interface

At the top of tools/worldEditor/gui/EditorGui.ed.gui add:
function Editor::updateCounters() 
{ 
  editorFPSLabel.setValue( "FPS:" @ $fps::real); 
  editorPolyLabel.setValue( "Poly:" @ $GFXDeviceStatistics::polyCount); 
  editorDrawLabel.setValue( "Draw:" @ $GFXDeviceStatistics::drawCalls); 
} 

function updateCounters() { 
  Editor::updateCounters(); 
  
  if( EditorIsActive()) 
    schedule( 1000, 0, updateCounters);  
}
This adds the function to update the HUD

In the same file in function toggleEditor, at line 169 add the commented line
popInstantGroup();
      }
      updateCounters(); // Add this line
      
      %elapsed = stopPrecisionTimer( %timerId );
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Torque Owner D Fasel
Game 3D
#1
04/24/2012 (8:24 am)
Thats a cool thing, to make it in the editor. I got the idea to make this with : metrics("fps");
and just make a hotkey to call it.

EDIT:

I made it that way: (put the following script in scripts>cliend>defaultbind.cs to the end of file)

//Metrics

function toggleMetrics( %val )
{
if ( %val )
{
if ( $toggleM == false)
{
$toggleM = true;
metrics( "fps gfx" );
}
else
{
$toggleM = false;
metrics( "" );
}
}
}
GlobalActionMap.bind(keyboard, "ctrl F10", toggleMetrics);

and now, you can just use control and F10 to toggle the metrics gui. see also game>core>scripts>client>metrics.cs for more info about this.

Torque Owner Justin Knight
TCE
#2
04/24/2012 (11:35 am)
Nice - I hadn't come across that metrics script before, lots of useful stuff in there.

Torque Owner D Fasel
Game 3D
#3
04/24/2012 (4:00 pm)
I also had a long time to look in that metrics.cs. But if i did that, i was happy to know how easy it is to see the fps and other things. This metrics should be standard on a hotkey.

Torque Owner Demolishun
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#4
04/24/2012 (5:09 pm)
Awesome idea!