[Bf-committers] New Empty Types- Sphere and Cone

[Toni Alatalo]

On Saturday 15 December 2007 10:56:36 Joshua Leung wrote:
> In that case, why not just instance a group on an empty?

That might well do it indeed. Would also help  with another problem I was 
thinking: empties using an arbitary shape not being distinctive anymore w.r.t 
meshes, as they'd then at least show as green. The arrows don't have that 
problem, 'cause usually scenes don't have objects that look like that - dunno 
if that is a prob with the suggested sphere and cone.

~Toni

> On 12/15/07, Toni Alatalo <antont at kyperjokki.fi> wrote:
> > On Friday 14 December 2007 19:50:10 David Bryant wrote:
> > > empty types sphere and cone. It uses OpenGL routines and the functions
> >
> > are
> >
> > > called by the drawaxes() function in Blender.I wrote the circle and box
> > > empty functions that Blender now has and these work exactly how they're
> >
> > that's probably all good, but i decided to mention anyway that custom
> > empty
> > drawtypes - like there is custom drawtypes for bones - has seemed like a
> > good
> > idea too (it came when some game level editors wanted custom shapes for
> > AI markers etc - they requested custom object types, but apparently new
> > object
> > types were not needed, just e.g. empty drawtypes).
> >
> > should be simple to do - just add an option to use an object for drawing
> > and
> > link to that, i suppose the code in bone drawing works as an example and
> > hopefully the same things can be just reused. haven't done myself yet
> > 'cause
> > our games are so simple so far that the few existing drawtypes have
> > sufficed :p
> >
> > > uploaded to the patch tracker. Digikiller
> >
> > cheers,
> > ~Toni
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