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Hi,

I am relatively new to Dark Game SDK, and thus far im pretty impressed with what I have been able to do in a very short development time. I have come up against a problem, whic I can not see a solution to in any documentation.

I was making a simple editor for my game, and wanted to be able to load a "location" file (.x) by selecting from a menu. To cut a long story very short, is there a problem with calling dbLoadObject from within the game loop (LoopSDK).

Outside the game loop my code works fine, but when called from within no object is displayed, anda call to dbObjectExist returns 0.

A subset of my code with hardcoded values is below:


So, am I being daft, is this impossible in Dark Game (if so, any suggestions on how best to load an object at runtime greatfully received).

Many Thanks, Mark

I suspect the SetDir function is failing, thus not being able to load the model.

Try this :



Put the X file in the root of the C drive

If that works, use dbSetDir("c:\\");
and
dbLoadObject("test.x",1);

Hey SSS that was great, simple debugging I should have tried I guess, my bad.

It is interesting, the files I have are buried a little way into the directory structure, and it would seem that dependent on which directory I put the files in sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. However if I use the full path in dbLoadObject I have a much higher success rate. Any reason why setDir may fail?

Once everything is running I will return to the issue and see just what is causing it, but seeing as I have a workaround for now I can get on with the actual coding I wanted to do.

Many Thanks, Mark.

be sure to set the directory back to your root dir when you are done loading a certain type of media.

It wont do it itself, so if for example you have two functions; LoadSounds() and LoadImages() - and the sound one started with dbSetDir(".\\Sound\\"); and the Image one started with dbSetDir(".\\Gfx\\"); and you called the sound one first then by the time it gets to the image one it will actually be trying to set the path to ".\Sound\Gfx\" - easy thing to run into, so double check that in any of your code if you are loading from multiple dirs.

My prefrence is to extern a char global called gRootDir; and on program initialisation set it to the root dir (when program first runs that will dbGetDir()) and then in all media loading routines I start by setting the right dir on the first line and then on the last line of the function I set the dir back to gRootDir.