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Torque 3D Game Development Cookbook

By : DAVID WYAND
Book Image

Torque 3D Game Development Cookbook

By: DAVID WYAND

Overview of this book

Torque 3D is a popular game engine that supports you in every step along the way to making your game a reality. Even with all of the power and tools that Torque 3D provides, finishing a high quality 3D game requires time and knowledge."Torque 3D Game Development Cookbook" is a practical guide that takes you through each of the major steps on the journey to creating your game, while learning a few tricks along the way.The recipes in this book start off with learning some of the finer points about TorqueScript. The book then moves on to each of Torque 3D's subsystems and ends with a variety of game play recipes.The various topics covered include activating level-specific game code and scheduling game events, dragging and dropping items between windows to work with an in-game inventory system, and covering the seams between objects with well placed decals. Some of the advanced topics include writing custom shaders and postFX, using zones to improve rendering performance, and enhancing your game's ambience through sound.Once you are done with Torque 3D Game Development Cookbook you'll be on your way to creating amazing 3D games and gain expert knowledge of Torque 3D.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Torque 3D Game Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting zone-specific ambient lighting


Zones are mainly used to determine which objects in a level should render and which shouldn't, based on the current camera position and rotation. In addition, Zone objects may also control the ambient lighting (the lighting that appears to come from all directions) for the region within the Zone. A good example of this is a cave system where the sun should not reach all the way in. In this recipe, we will look at how to set up custom ambient lighting for a Zone object that is different from the rest of the level.

Getting ready

Start up Torque 3D and launch a level of your game, then press F11 to open the World Editor. As we want to manipulate the scene objects, the Object Editor should be selected (F1 or by using the Editors menu). Make sure there is at least one Zone object already in the level.

How to do it...

In the following steps we will modify ambient lighting properties of a Zone object:

  1. Select the Zone object that will have the custom ambient lighting...