TK Games LLC

So working with a new board selection class for La Box and I came across a nice little piece of code for loading levels. This is not my code and I don’t remember whose it is but it works wonders for me.

function loadNewLevel(%levelFile, %delay)
{
// Prevents a crash
if (%delay $= “”) %delay = 100;

// If you haven’t included a directory then we’ll use the default
if (!isFile(%levelFile))
%levelFile = “game/data/levels/” @ %levelFile;

// Add on the extension if needed
%fileExtn = “.t2d”;
if (getSubStr(%levelFile, strlen(%levelFile) – strlen(%fileExtn), strlen(%fileExtn)) !$= %fileExtn)
%levelFile = %levelFile @ %fileExtn;

// Load the file if possible
$gameRunning=true;
$levelName=%levelFile;
if (isFile(%levelFile))
schedule(%delay, 0, “startGame”, %levelFile, %empty);
else
warn(”Level not found: ” @ %levelFile);
}

This always works nicely if you want to play some kind of particle effect or animation before you load a new level. just call it like this loadNewLevel(%scene, 5000);

So when I was working on some of the power ups for La Box I needed a way to display several particle effects on the screen at the same time. So what i did was create a function to do this for me.

function CreateGroundPountEffect(%pos)
{
%particle = new t2dParticleEffect();
%particle.addToScene($sceneGraph);
%particle.loadEffect(”~/data/particles/SmokePuff.eff”);
%particle.Position = %pos;
%particle.playEffect();
}

Use this function and pass in the position where you want it to display. For me this was a random point on the screen so i would have Smoke Puffs all over the place. Hope this helps someone.

Here is a sample audio setup class for torque game builder. Simply create a new script file. Add in the following.

new AudioDescription(AudioNonLooping)
{
volume = 1.0;
isLooping = false;
isStreaming = true;
};
new AudioDescription(AudioLooping)
{
volume = 1.0;
isLooping = true;
isStreaming = true;
};
new AudioProfile(AudioSpaceBass)
{
filename = “~/data/audio/SpaceBass.wav”;
description = “AudioLooping”;
preload = true;
};

Execute the script in game.cs. then use alxPlay(AudioSpaceBass); anywhere you want to play the music.