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Need help with animated static mesh

by James Brad Barnette · in Torque Game Engine · 05/08/2007 (7:46 pm) · 6 replies

I have a mesh of a oil well and I have an animation of the pump moving. whe I view it in Show tool pro all is well but when I import it intot he game it is just static. How do I get it to play throught its animation and cycle.

At this point that is all I need it to do. it is a simple 120 cycle of the pump moving.

Thanks in advance.
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Torque Owner Fucifer
#1
05/08/2007 (7:54 pm)
You need to write script and exec it in game.cs in server/script. Then in the world editor go under Shapes for dts.

Here example scripts.

datablock StaticShapeData(Pump)
{
   category = "Oil Well";
   shapeFile = "~/data/shapes/Oilwell/pump.dts";
};

function Pump::onAdd(%this,%obj)
{
   %obj.playThread(0,"idle"); // change idle to name of your animation
}

Torque 3D Owner James Brad Barnette
#2
05/08/2007 (8:53 pm)
Thanks a million man

Torque Owner Fucifer
#3
05/08/2007 (10:12 pm)
Your very welcome!

Torque Owner Ian (Fluxtah) Warwick
#4
05/09/2007 (12:47 am)
I am not sure if things have changed but I read somewhere recently (I am still learning) that static shapes can have one animation which should be called ambient for it to play correctly, is this still the case?

Torque Owner Tim Heldna
#5
05/09/2007 (3:33 am)
I use static shapes with numerous animations and none of them are named ambient.

Torque 3D Owner James Brad Barnette
#6
05/09/2007 (3:55 am)
Yeah I have done some reading and it look like there has to be a script for it ad it has to have a exec entry in the game.cs this make it a gameBase Class and not a static mesh class. I could be wrong but that is what I got out of it. There should really be a tutorial on it.