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Inheriting the AbstractSwitcher Template?

by Chad Kilgore · in Game Mechanics Kit · 12/19/2009 (12:24 pm) · 4 replies

I am trying to create a new Switcher type, called Grammophone. But when I add the object, the object does not have any of the AbstractSwitcher parameters, such as 'usable'.

datablock StaticShapeData(Grammophone)
{
	class = "SwitcherData";
   shapeFile = "art/shapes/lever/lever.dts";
    
   position = "0 0 0";
	Scale = "1 1 1";
	emap = true;
	receiveSunLight = "1";
	
	openAnimation = "Switch_on";
	closeAnimation = "Switch_off";
	closeAnimationReverse = false;
	
	openSnd = sndGrammophone;
	closeSnd = sndGrammophone;
};

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// for Game Mechanics Editor
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

ActivatePackage(TemplateFunctions);
   inheritTemplate("Grammophone", "AbstractSwitcher");
   registerTemplate("Grammophone", "Switches", "SwitcherData::create(Grammophone);");
DeactivatePackage(TemplateFunctions);

Does anybody have any ideas what I am doing wrong?
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Torque Owner Kerry Enfinger
Altered Reality Software
#1
12/19/2009 (5:15 pm)
I just tried your script and saw no problem with the parameters. All parameters, including "usuable", were present in the editor. The scripting looks fine. Try looking in the console log for any errors or warnings.

Torque 3D Owner Chad Kilgore
#2
12/21/2009 (11:55 am)
I figured it out. I was trying to divide it into the art/datablock and scripts/server. The scripts did not yet initialize by the time the datablock was built, thus the template did not yet exist. I rearranged some code and it works. Thank you very much for your help.

Torque Owner deepscratch
DeepScratchStudios
#3
12/21/2009 (2:17 pm)
hey Chad,
can you tell us what code you re-aranged?
I had a simmilar thing happen to me...

Torque 3D Owner Chad Kilgore
#4
12/21/2009 (8:39 pm)
In scripts/sever/scriptExec.cs:
// Load GMK
exec("./logickingMechanics/logickingMechanics.cs");

// Load Objects
exec("./objects/grammophone.cs");

In scripts/server/objects/grammophone.cs (where the datablocks script is executed):
exec("art/datablocks/objects/grammophone.cs");

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

function Grammophone::onAdd(%this)
{
...
}

function cGrammophone::init(%this)
{
	Switcher::init(%this);
}
...


For additional functionality, I added to scripts/server/logickingMechanics/switcher.cs:
function SwitcherData::create_defClass(%data, %class)
{
   if (%class $= "")
   {
      echo("***** DEBUG: Defining SwitcherData class to be Switcher");
      %class = "Switcher";
   }
   
	%obj = new StaticShape() {
		class = %class;
		dataBlock = %data;
	};
	
	return %obj;
}

This function allows you to define the class of the object when you register the template.