[Asset Browser not working after saving of a prefab.]

I don't understand?

[ReadAll]

HTTP streams are not supported in 3.x. It's actually a feature that was built into BlitzMax.

[Asset Browser not working after saving of a prefab.]

Yeah, it was a simple fix. Basically, when prefabs are loaded, they are an entity that isn't associated with any world. The engine was trying to set the entity's world ambient light from the prefab file (prefabs are actually just map files with a single top-level entity.)

[NVIDIA Is "Taking Linux Gaming Serious"]

While both NVidia and ATI drivers run perfectly on Linux, in my experience, I have had difficulties uninstalling ATI drivers. I believe my system has been more stable with an NVidia card, but I can't say for certain.

[Asset Browser not working after saving of a prefab.]

You are correct. Working on it now...

[LE 2.51 - Updating Vegetation billboards realtime]

If you're doing this in BlitzMax, you can use reflection to view the entire structure of the classes.

TQuadTree:

Type TQuadTree

Field layer:TVegetationLayer[MAXVEGETATIONLAYERS]
Field root:TQuadTreeNode
Field world:TWorld
Field levels:Int
Field terrain:TTerrain

 

TVegetationLayer:

Type TVegetationLayer

Global shadowmode:Int

Field body:TBody
Field shape:TShape
Field collisiontype:Int
Field aabb:TAABB
Field batch:TBatch[8]
Field lodDistance:Float=50.0
Field vegetationobject:TVegetationObject[]
Field lodcount:Int
Field radius:Float
Field billboardtexture:TTexture[2]
Field billboarddrawqueue:TSurface[]
Field billboarddrawqueuecount:Int
Field castshadows:Int=1
Field density:Float=8
Field viewrange:Float=100
Field randomscale:Float=0
Field randomtilt:Float=0
Field aligntoterrain:Int=0
Field index:Int
Field randomrotation:Int=1
Field minslope:Float=0.0
Field maxslope:Float=90.0
Field minheight:Float=0
Field maxheight:Float=1000
Field usebillboards:Int=0
Field scene:TShape
Field path:String

[Lua Libraries]

I am curious how this works as well.

[KS Update #39 - Questions]

The exact numbers will depend on your hardware, but it's very efficient at rendering instanced geometry like that. 10,000 on camera might be too many, but with distance and frustum culling that could definitely be done.

[ReadAll]

If it's undocumented by definition it's unofficial. I think he is asking for it to be official.

[building a filepath]

"\" is the official/correct one for Windows. "/" is for every other OS. But they both work everywhere ni Leadwerks.

[ReadAll]

It loads a file and returns the entire contents in a string.

[ReadAll]

Try FileSystem::LoadString().

[ReadAll]

What would it do?

[Plugins for editor]

Here's some info on LuaJIT importing and compiling C code. It's rather amazing stuff:

http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html

[stntax error?]

You can call Sound::Play for simple stuff like that, FYI.

[good solution for a trigger?]

You can set a script with a collision function or use a collision callback. There presently is not a "leave" callback or function though. If the trigger collision type is used, the callback will continually be called each frame as long as the objects are intersecting.

[SSAO in 3.1 ?]

It's fairly easy to bring the Leadwerks 2 post-processing shaders forward in Leadwerks 3.1.

 

We also have a normals-based ambient term built into the lighting that gives a soft enhancement to shaded surfaces based on their normal map.

[Anti-Aliasing FXAA in Leadwerks 3.1 ?]

Leadwerks 2 uses FXAA...it's basically a post-processing effect that tries to detect edges and make them blurrier. Consequently, it's not good at rendering fine details, because it's always trying to make more information than what it really has.

 

MSAA is a superior technique that performs random supersampling to render a higher quality image. Until recently, it wasn't possible to do this with a deferred renderer, and this was one of the main drawbacks to deferred rendering. OpenGL 4.0 now makes it possible to combine full hardware MSAA with deferred rendering.

 

Leadwerks 3.1 supports up to 32x hardware MSAA.

[simple Collision physics not working on model ?]

Thanks.

[Plugins for editor]

The original 3D World Studio had this functionality, and this is a likely feature in the future, using LuaJIT. This has a lot of advantageous:

• Plugins are easy to write and cross-platform compatible. (No compiling required.)
  
• Plugins can be precompiled as LuaJIT machine code and distributed to protect the source code.
  
• LuaJIT can compile C code into the Lua binary object! So it basically makes a cross-platform version of a DLL.
  

 

I'm a big fan of 3ds max's MaxScript plugins system, and would model the design after that.

[3d world studio]

The latest version of 3D World Studio exports to GMF.

[fbx drag and drop not working]

Does it print anything in the console when you do this?

[character problem]

You could apply the invisible material to the unwanted limbs. At this time the model editor does not support deleting limbs, but it's a good idea for the future.

[Lua breakpoints]

I don't know how, but something as innocuous as a flipped "/" "\" sign made this stop working. Sorry about that.

[New script 3.0 bug]

wrong thread...