Custom coin asset

Let's say you have a model, that has been prepared for Torque, and some textures and now you want to use that instead of the boring torus primitive.

We will do a step-by step of how to import these files first download this zip file:

2MB

korkCoin.zip

archive

And extract it into data/CoinCollection/objects/korkCoin such that you get the following four files inside that directory:

• data/CoinCollection/objects/korkCoin

  • korkCoin.fbx

  • korkCoin_albedo.png

  • korkCoin_n.png

  • korkCoin_orm.png

Then open up the World Editor and find the Asset Browser: Navigate to data/CoinCollection/objects/korkCoin and click on the exclamation mark:

This will load all the files in as separate assets:

Now we need to tie them together, right-click the material asset and click on Edit Asset

In the Material Editor, set the Diffuse Map to the albedo image asset, the Normal Map to the normal image asset and the ORM Map to the orm image asset.

Then click the save button, and confirm that everything looks right by dragging a "korkCoin_shape" asset into the scene.

Finally, open up data/CoinCollection/datablocks/coin.tscript and change the ShapeAsset of your Coin datablock to this newly imported shape:

datablock StaticShapeData( Coin ) {
    ShapeAsset = "CoinCollection:korkCoin_shape";
    category = "CoinCollectionObjects";
};

Playing a simple animation

The korkCoin.fbx file has a simple animation built in. It simply rotates the coin around once. Let's play this on our coins. The animation is called korkCoin|ambient.

First open up data/CoinCollection/objects/korkCoin/korkCoin.tscript and add the following function to the end of the file:

function korkCoinfbx::onLoad(%this)
{
    %this.setSequenceCyclic("korkCoin|ambient", "1");
}

This will make sure that our animation plays on a loop. Now we need to play this animation on all coins that are spawned, we can do that on the onAdd callback for each Coin in data/CoinCollection/server/coin.tscript:

function Coin::onAdd(%this, %obj) {
    %obj.playThread( 0, "korkCoin|ambient" );
}

Remember here that Coin is the datablock, so the second parameter %obj is the actual Coin instance itself.