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It has been decided to share with all of you the code of our iPhone visual simulator (iSim for T3D (328)). Indeed, we are using it a lot now for some of our projects, among which Dog of Prey; and we think it might be also useful for all of you using T3D for some prototyping of iPhone game. Moreover, as GarageGames announced that new release of iTGE will be based on T3D; we stopped our work on integrating OpenGL ES into this simulator and we are waiting on iT3D to see how to merge our current source code.

Some documentation about this tool and how to install it:

1. First create a new project using the T3D toolbox named iSim
2. Copy to the file inside the archive inside your home folder of T3D installation
3. Regenerate the build files of iSim project
4. Compile and run it; this should work

You can look at the file readme.txt which lists all the original files with a change.

Two important key binding:

• CTRL + BACKSPACE: this will switch from simulation to full screen mode
• CTRL + RETURN: this will hide / unhide the mouse

Regarding the touch implementation, left mouse button is a regular touch and right mouse button is considered as a tap touch.

Enjoy it.

New release of T3D completly changed how resource / stream are managed thus making the previous resource of libCurl not working with it. Here libCurl patch T3D (290) is a new release of simCurl.cpp which has been changed in order to fit with this new management of stream.

The proposed download is a modification of provided source code from GarageGames in order to support Theora movie playback. The current resource is only working for video playback and does not included the sound streaming which is needed in order to have both video and sound support.

First of all, just download the following file TGEA Theora support (1166) and copy the engine folder inside your TGEA folder (do not forget to backup your data first). The archive includes also the latest Theora library distribution. You may need to compile them for your platform (just go inside engine/lib/libTheora).

In order to compile you application, you will need to set-up the correct path for include and library file. First set-up the path for the include files as followed:

Then set-up the path for the library and the new theora lib file in the linker option as followed:

For the library to link, you may face some linker issue with the release library; but it works well with the debug library.

Then you can try the .ogg demonstration video available in the archive by creating a TheoraGuiCtrl in the GUI editor as followed.

For those of you that have experimented the current T3D Web plugin, you may have found it quite stable and reliable on both Internet Explorer and Firefox platform. However, it is currently quite cumbersome to have to load a full installation package, weighting sometimes more than 50 Mb, to install such plugin. The Advanced Web Plugin Extension will offer the capabilities to download data from your server when required. We are currently working on a simple API to interface such extension with your mission file / game assets in order to define which assets need to be managed with this extension and which are not. Such API will be available through TorqueScript. On the server, no special requirement will be asked except HTTP / FTP access of your project data. A project template will be available in order to demonstrate such extension usage.

Thanks to extensive work of Fyodor “bank” Osokin and GG community, it is possible to propose you a simple integration of libCurl inside T3D core engine. This integration is available in our download area (libCurl (539)).It already integrate the libCurl implementation for Win32 with SSL support. It means you need to install SSL DLL in order to have access to SSL layer with this implementation.

For installation of this resource, you just need to unzip the downloaded package inside your T3D installation folder. It will update the project generator and full template. Then for each new project you will create, you will have access to the libCurl implementation automatically (nothing else to set-up). Current resource is valid and tested only for Win32.

In order to use it in your script, two helper functions are available in the folder curl/main.cs.

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function startBinaryDownload(%url, %file)
{
   curler.addDownloadTask(%url, %file, -1, "", "cbCurlOK", "cbCurlError", "cbCurlProgress");
}
 
function startTextDownload(%url, %cb)
{
   curler.addTextTask(%url, %cb, "cbCurlError", "cbCurlProgress");
}

If you need to have more information on the selected implementation, you can take a look on GarageGames forums.