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Bitmap not showing

by Nathan Kent · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 07/22/2008 (11:48 am) · 10 replies

I've done very little work with Torque's GUI system. You have been warned.

I have a splash-screen gui that wont display it's bitmap. It's showing when it should, but it's just white, and if I load it up in the Gui Editor, it will work perfectly.

Here's the GUI:
new GuiFadeinBitmapCtrl(GgSplashGui) {
   canSaveDynamicFields = "0";
   Profile = "GuiDefaultProfile";
   HorizSizing = "width";
   VertSizing = "bottom";
   Position = "0 0";
   Extent = "640 480";
   MinExtent = "8 8";
   canSave = "1";
   Visible = "1";
   hovertime = "1000";
   bitmap = "./GarageGames";
   wrap = "0";
   fadeInTime = "500";
   waitTime = "3375";
   fadeOutTime = "250";
   done = "0";
      noCursor = true;
};

function loadSplashScreens()
{
   Canvas.setContent( GgSplashGui );
   schedule(4125, 0, loadSplash2 );
}

Any ideas?
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Associate Anthony Rosenbaum
#1
07/22/2008 (11:55 am)
Where is the file? The . in the filename implies both this code and the image for it are in the same folder

Torque Owner Nathan Kent
#2
07/22/2008 (11:58 am)
Both of them are in "main/client/ui". It's finding the image when I edit the GUI in the editor, but not when I play it with loadSplashScreens().

Torque Owner Nathan Kent
#3
07/23/2008 (3:48 pm)
This is effecting GuiBitmapControls too, now. After finally getting the console back in my game, I was able to run through the Splash Screens again, and after the second time, they are perfect. Maybe I'm supposed to initialize each gui somehow, and I'm not?

Torque Owner Nathan Kent
#4
07/31/2008 (2:31 pm)
BUMP

Still haven't figured this out. Maybe I should try quadruple posting instead of just triple. =P

Torque 3D Owner Morrock
#5
07/31/2008 (2:42 pm)
If both, the bitmap and the .gui file are in the same folder do you need the "./"? How about just
bitmap = "GarageGames";

Torque Owner Nathan Kent
#6
07/31/2008 (3:59 pm)
Yep, you need it. The "./" shows that it's in the same folder, without it, the engine is looking for "BaseDirectory/GarageGames" instead of "BaseDirectory/Game/Client/ui/Garagegames".

The images show up the second time, just not the initial one.

Torque Owner game4Rest
colyd studio
#7
07/31/2008 (5:01 pm)
It seems like Torque sometimes fails to understand relative path. Why don't you try putting
bitmap = "yourproject/client/ui/GarageGames" instead of bitmap = "./GarageGames"?

Torque Owner Nathan Kent
#8
07/31/2008 (7:06 pm)
Nope, that's not it either, because the exact same thing happen. I don't think that the problem lies in the path, I think that I'm forgetting some nessisary field, or forgetting to "initialize" it, or something....

Torque Owner Nathan Kent
#9
08/06/2008 (6:41 am)
For anyone who has this problem in the future, here's the solution:
Execute the files after you make the canvas.

Torque 3D Owner Jeffrey Taylor
#10
06/11/2010 (6:37 pm)
I want to add to this discussion because I had the same issue in T3D (1.1 b1). I actually used the GUI editor and set the image property of the GUIControl. Everything looked great in the editor but nothing displayed in the game. Here is what I had to do:

/game/scripts/gui/startupGui.cs

function loadStartup()
{
...
StartupGui.bitmap() = "art/gui/startup"; //for my startup.png
...
}

This took care of the problem. It seems that this code is overriding the property of the GUI itself.