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Light Editor Doesn't Work? Or does something else?

by Foestar · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 04/20/2010 (6:30 pm) · 3 replies

Am I missing something. I tried out the light editor in TGEA today to create a datablock and it saves it so it can show up in the drop down menu when I reload in. But it doesn't show up anywhere else as if all it did for creating it was create it for the drop down menu. Seems kinda silly and pointless to me if you can't just create or copy light datablocks using the light editor. For now I'm just making my datablocks manually in my CS files. Anyone mind shining some insight on this topic unless I missed it listed before? (I searched but didn't find anything.)
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Torque 3D Owner Bloodknight
Bloodknight Studios
#1
04/21/2010 (6:46 am)
I believe you have to restart TGEA for them to be usable with lights youve added to the game, i think i had a similar issue some time ago.

Torque 3D Owner Foestar
#2
04/21/2010 (11:56 am)
Ah, I figured it out. Two things I was doing wrong.
1.) You apparently can't have spaces in your datablocks name.
2.) I think you had it right Bloodknight on the restart.

Got it working.

Torque 3D Owner Bloodknight
Bloodknight Studios
#3
04/21/2010 (8:32 pm)
ahh ive gotten into the habit of underscoring spaces where spaces are more useful that just capitalising words, some problems several years ago with linux and i think TGE neither of which are very whitespace friendly when it comes to file systems :)