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Waypoints

by Robert Fritzen · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 03/30/2011 (3:37 pm) · 5 replies

I'm noticing TGEA has the WaypointMarker object, similar to Tribes 2. and I'm trying to figure out how to get them to display in game.

I want to use these as markers for mission objectives in my single player missions.

Is additional engine source coding required? if so, I'll just create a new GUI object based off of the shapeNameHud that only targets waypoints. I'd probably resource it too if I can get it working.
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Torque Owner Ben Sparks - Warspawn
StarOrdered Games
#1
03/30/2011 (9:10 pm)
I have AFX but I think it's prolly the same:

creator.ed.cs:
%Mission_Item[6] = "WayPoint";

Just make it another number in your array with the rest of them if 6 is taken.

objectBuilderGui.ed.cs:
function ObjectBuilderGui::buildWayPoint(%this)
{
   %this.className = "WayPoint";
   %this.addField("dataBlock", "TypeDataBlock", "WayPointMarker", "MissionMarkerData");
   %this.process();
}

So, note that the way the editor is setup is to call whatever out of the %Mission_Item array at like: build @ %Mission_Item ... so spelling and whatever is important to get those to match.

Torque Owner Robert Fritzen
Phantom Games Development
#2
03/31/2011 (9:26 am)
I'll give that a shot and report back.

Associate Steve Acaster
[YorkshireRifles.com]
#3
03/31/2011 (9:43 am)
Aren't waypoints available under the same editor tree as "misc"? It's been a long time since I used TGEA.

Torque Owner Robert Fritzen
Phantom Games Development
#4
03/31/2011 (6:21 pm)
Those objects are already in the editor, my only issue is that they don't show on the screen like they would in Tribes 2.

They would show, based on the team number, a color (Green: Same Team as Player, Red: Different Team than Player, White: Team 0) with a distance value, along with some name tag on the screen.

Torque Owner Ben Sparks - Warspawn
StarOrdered Games
#5
03/31/2011 (8:47 pm)
Oh, yeah looks like they are under the Shapes->Misc sorry... and it doesn't help you anyway.

Ok, so you want something that you can show a player? And I don't quite get the color thing. Do you have a screenshot of T2 using this?