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From: Tom <tm7130@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: soft and tmds
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:09:12 +0000
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Will Atkin wrote:
> 
> Hey all..
> 
> having slight troubles exporting tmds from softimage to the yaroze..
> 
> The thing is I'm using a multiple object model.  You know a character
> with separate legs and arms.  As I understand it you can save all the
> objects in one tmd file and call it as that file.  Whenever I load my
> game it displays as the hip object and nothing else, and the wierd thing
> is that I know all the information is there, becuase when I import the
> tmd file back into soft to see whats going on.. all the objects are
> there!  Can't figure it out..
> 
> anyone have any ideas??
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Will

When you call GsLinkObject4(), there's a parameter in that tells the
Yaroze which object in the TMD to link to the GsDOBJ2 structure. Most of
the time this is set to 0 as (from what I can tell) most TMDs only
contain one object but if you set it to 3, say, you can link the fourth
model in the TMD. I've done this before, but only in a dynamic TMD that
I've created myself. Failing this, check the 'nobj' variable in the TMD
header (try using Rob Swan's dynaimc TMD creation lib) and see what
value this is set to as it's (supposed to) hold how many objects are in
the TMD file.

I hope this helps as this is all from memory, the structure and function
names might be different, but the priciple should be sound ;-)

Cheers,

	Tom