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#Entity object number is very high (over 10000).
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:12 am
by J@ckWhiteIII
Hey,
I know I'm not THAT good at maths, but can someone explain me how i get this error here (see subject)? isn't it 4*4*4? why does the number get higher than 10000? it'd be very nice of anyone of you can explain and maybe correct this. This is going to be a procedure that generates some cube entities (like a world generator, but at the moment only with one type ^^). I really hope someone can help me here.
the Code:
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Procedure Generate ()
For i = -10 To 10 Step 5
For j = -10 To 10 Step 5
For k = -10 To 10 Step 5
Cube = CreateCube (#PB_Any,5)
CreateEntity (Cube,MeshID (Cube),LoadTexture (0,"Tetromino Viertel.bmp"))
EntityLocate (Cube,i,j,k)
Next k
Next j
Next i
EndProcedure
I get the error at line 6.
Thank you in advance
Re: #Entity object number is very high (over 10000).
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:52 am
by IdeasVacuum
.... If you insert a Debug you will see:
Cube: 43458536
Can't advise much further because there is too much work required to make a working snippet to test - that's your job Jack!
From the help:
Texture format can be in PNG, TGA or JPG. It's strongly recommended to make the texture dimension square and with power of 2 width/height: 64x64, 128x128, 256x256... Old GFX cards can have limitation, so if possible limit the texture size to 256x256.
Re: #Entity object number is very high (over 10000).
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:16 am
by Arctic Fox
You shouldn't use the Cube variable as index number for CreateEntity. Dynamically created index numbers (those generated by the use of #PB_Any) tend to be very high, thus resulting in the object number error.
I think you should use #PB_Any for CreateEntity, too, and store the returned index number in another variable (e.g. named Entity) which can be used for EntityLocate.
Re: #Entity object number is very high (over 10000).
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:24 am
by IdeasVacuum
I think you only need to create 1 Cube Mesh and then make many Entities of that Mesh? Could be totally wrong, just sounds logical.
Something like this:
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InitEngine3D()
InitSprite()
InitKeyboard()
InitMouse()
InitSound()
UsePNGImageDecoder()
UsePNGImageEncoder()
#Win = 0
#Texture = 1
#Material = 2
#Cube = 3
Procedure Generate()
;-------------------
OpenWindow(#Win,20,30,640,480,"Cubes",#PB_Window_ScreenCentered|#PB_Window_SystemMenu|#PB_Window_MinimizeGadget)
OpenWindowedScreen(WindowID(#Win),0,0,WindowWidth(#Win),WindowHeight(#Win),0,0,0)
Add3DArchive("C:\Textures\",#PB_3DArchive_FileSystem)
CreateMaterial(#Material, LoadTexture(#Texture,"Texture.png"))
CreateCube(#Cube,5)
For i = -10 To 10 Step 5
For j = -10 To 10 Step 5
For k = -10 To 10 Step 5
iEntID = CreateEntity(#PB_Any,MeshID(#Cube),MaterialID(#Material))
EntityLocate(iEntID,i,j,k)
Next k
Next j
Next i
EndProcedure
Generate()
Note that you need to create a material from a loaded texture and apply that to the Mesh.
Re: #Entity object number is very high (over 10000).
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:23 am
by J@ckWhiteIII
Yep, had to change "Cube" to "Entity". thank you very much, it works perfectly now