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Whack a Mole Tutorial work around?

by Ecliptic · in iTorque 2D · 03/25/2010 (4:15 pm) · 2 replies

Here guys, I am trying to help a friend out who is going through the tutorials and I can not come up with a work around for this... Because of the changes to the onLevelLoaded with the new updates, the tutorial doesn't work. If one wanted to create a simset, we could have that happen by adding a "Start button" that creates the simSet durring the transitions but how would you add the spawn points to the simSet without having them each a unique class to be manually added in?


///Create the Simset for the Moles spawn points...

function moleLevel::onLevelLoaded(%this)
{
   %this.respawnPointSet = new SimSet();
}

function moleLevel::onLevelEnded(%this)
{
   %this.respawnPointSet.delete();
}

///This is to add the spawnpoints to the simSet List.

function respawnPoint::onLevelLoaded(%this, %level)
{
   %level.respawnPointSet.add(%this);
}


function respawnPoint::onLevelEnded(%this, %level)
{
   if( isObject( %level.respawnPointSet ) )
      %level.respawnPointSet.remove(%this);
}

Thanks guys!
Dane
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Torque Owner Ecliptic
#1
03/26/2010 (10:07 am)
Anyone have a efficient solution that we may be able to use? I was thinking I could easily have the start button create a simSet and then create the individual spawnPoints and add them to the set... The problem is, I don't know how efficient this would be since I would have to create several classes, "SpawnPoint1, SpawnPoint2, SpawnPoint3, ect?"

Is there a way to have all class sceneobjects added to a simSet in one line of code? Say my level is setUp with 7 holes with the class "SpawnPoint" as the class. The way the "onLevelLoaded" works, it is sending a message to all the respawnPoints at the moment the level is detected adding them to the set. How could we get this to work when using just a button with a "OnMouseDown" function without having to have every spawn point a separate class?

Torque Owner Ecliptic
#2
03/28/2010 (3:49 pm)
Anyone..? There is no callback we can use to solve this solution in a simple manner?