Newbie C# question

[Calimaw]

I created a class file called SceneBuilder.cs which is where I want to place some functions for auto-building my scene based on entities it discovers and their Key values.

 

using Leadwerks;
using System;

namespace LWTest01
{
   public class SceneBuilder
   {
       public Entity child;
       public String colorString;
       public Color color;

       public void Atmosphere(Scene inScene)
       {
           child = inScene.GetChild("atmosphere_1");
           colorString = child.GetKey("fogcolor");
           color = new Color(new float[] { float.Parse(colorString.Split(',')[0]) / 255, float.Parse(colorString.Split(',')[1]) / 255, float.Parse(colorString.Split(',')[2]) / 255, float.Parse(colorString.Split(',')[3]) / 255 });
           Framework.Effects.DistanceFog.Color = color;
       }
   }
}

 

The above is the entire class file, but when I try to call it in my main with SceneBuilder.Atmosphere(); it will only allow me to put in SceneBuilder, as if it's a type.

 

I'm almost certain I did something wrong with defining the class, and it thinks its a type or something, can some one explain to me how I can consolidate a series of functions in another file to keep my main clean?

[Rick]

SceneBuilder is a type. The only way you can do SceneBuilder.Atmosphere() is if Atmosphere() is defined as static. Otherwise you have to make an object and call it via that way.

 

SceneBuilder scene;

 

scene.Atmosphere();

[Calimaw]

Alright, got it. thanks

 

Edit: I thought I might as this now, is every one else doing something similar for auto-building their scenes?

[Calimaw]

Any one please feel free to respond, I'm a big newb to C# and game programming, so any thoughts are helpful for me. I don't know the best way to do things so another perspective helps me make decisions

[TylerH]

Well, if by auto-building you mean setting up, I think anyone making large scale levels for games is using the Leadwerks Editor. There is no reason you can't setup a game entirely in code or the world as well, but there are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches.

 

[ZioRed]

I'm planning a kind of scene builder which parses a SBX file and loads it "manually" in multi-threading mode so that it let me to define a callback (for each entity load) which I can use to show a more or less accurate progress bar.

 

For the atmoshpere example: why you need to set it manually from the scene? Initializing the framework with lua enabled did not work?

 

Graphics.Initialize(800, 600);
Framework.Initialize(true);
Scene.Load("abstract::terrain_artic.sbx");

[Fester]

SceneBuilder myScene = new SceneBuilder();
myScene.Atmosphere();