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by Chase Webb · in General Discussion · 08/13/2011 (12:45 am) · 6 replies

Ok, I'm going to ask some more tutorial-based questions, since I'm kinda stuck. I'm on the tutorial on how to import resources, and I think I've done everything right. I've made my testArt folder, made the resourceDatabase.cs file, copied the images, and tried to import them into my project. The problem is that the images in the editor all show up as just gray boxes, similar to when I hadn't imported my resources correctly back in my first tutorials. I looked into the sample resources database file and compared it to the working ones, and tried changing the path from ~/data/images/ to just /images/, as the tutorial had me do.

So.... any clues as to what I am doing wrong? As far as I can tell, everything should be loading.
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Torque Owner Chase Webb
#1
08/13/2011 (7:08 pm)
Maybe I should simplify my question:

What does it mean when you try to load resources, but all you get in the create tab is a bunch of empty gray boxes?

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GarageGames
#2
08/15/2011 (9:25 am)
Just for clarification, which tutorial are you on?

Torque Owner Chase Webb
#3
08/16/2011 (1:06 am)
Specifically this one: http://docs.garagegames.com/tgb/official/content/documentation/Tutorials/Feature/Resources.html

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GarageGames
#4
08/16/2011 (11:25 am)
okay, found the problem thats going on with that tutorial. at one point it tells you to copy the images from one folder, but it really should be another. the folder you should copy is this one

games\TutorialBase\resources\starterArt

and NOT the
games\TutorialBase\game\data folder

after which everything should work. :)

Torque Owner Chase Webb
#5
08/17/2011 (7:56 am)
Awesome, I'll try it tomorrow when I'm awake and sane again :)

Torque Owner Chase Webb
#6
08/20/2011 (5:12 am)
I'm late to get back on this, but thanks for the help! The resources load now, so I know what went wrong :)

Hopefully someone can fix the tutorial files so no one else gets confused like I did.