Spawn a cube

[Greek2me]

How to I spawn a generic static shape cube in the game world? This will just be used for testing.

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[portify]

• Search General Modification Help for Demian's package of Blender 2.49b + the DTS exporter and download it anywhere
• Open Blender 2.49b (I'm working on getting rid of this step! Working on a DTS exporter and importer for the latest version of Blender. Shameless plug.)
• Since Blender starts with a simple cube in your scene, just head over to File -> Export -> Torque...
• Generally, in the GUI, the default options should suffice if you just want a cube (though you may want to check materials or something first if you want to recolor it), so head over and hit Export
• Create a datablock for your new DTS as follows: datablock StaticShapeData(MyShape) { shapeFile = "path/to/myshape.dts"; };
• Spawn it however: %shape = new StaticShape() { datablock = MyShape; position = "5 5 5"; scale = "1 2 3"; };

I think?

[Dannu]

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%obj = new staticShape()
{
a = %a;
b = %b;

datablock = cubeShapeData;
scale = vectorLen( %offset ) SPC %size SPC %size;

position = vectorScale( vectorAdd( %a, %b ), 0.5 );
rotation = %xyz SPC %pow;
visuals=true;
};

missionCleanup.add( %obj );
%obj.setNodeColor( "ALL", %color );

This is the code I am using to add lines. (Not my original concept)

[Greek2me]

Is anybody feeling generous that has a cube DTS handy?

[Dannu]

http://justfilehosting.space/download.php?f=ucxiv&name=cube.dts

[Greek2me]

You're the best. Thanks.

[Greek2me]

Is there something else I need to add to the datablock? Placing a bunch of them causes me to ghost but they don't actually show up.

[Gytyyhgfffff]

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datablock StaticShapeData(name)
{
shapeFile = "path/shape.dts";
};
you should only need just that for the datablock.

[Greek2me]

Nevermind. Calling %shape.setNodeColor("ALL", "1 1 1 1"); fixed it.

[phflack]

were they just invisible then? defaulted to 0 0 0 0?

[Greek2me]

Apparently.

[Dannu]

The code I posted actually included that though.