[Animation problem]

You must use bones (and meshes parented to them as auto weight) to export animation. Export both mesh and its bones. Then applying shader which used for animation on materials of the mesh.

[FPS drop at a rate of time]

Finally I found the solution for this problem.

it is not related to Leadwerks, there was a process named "Rivet Networks Dynamic bandwidth manager" which running on my laptop.

The process made CPU run at unstable rate which caused stutter problem.

[FPS drop at a rate of time]

yesterday my Leadwerks was still normal, but today, I get this problem with FPS, anyone has any idea about which caused this ?

 

[CSCĐ: Vietnam Mobile Police]

Bullet Physic with gravity, now sniping is much more fun

 

[Terrain and world:pick problem]

I am trying to build a Top view shooting game

First I use Camera:Pick to get collided position by Mouse pointer to Terrain, everything ok, System:Print() can make output of collided position

--set shooting point follow mouse cursor
mousepos = window:GetMousePosition()
mousePickInfo = PickInfo()
if camera:Pick(mousepos.x,mousepos.y,mousePickInfo,0,true,Collision.LineOfSight) then
	shootingPoint:SetPosition(mousePickInfo.position)
  	--shootingPoint is a pivot which I created in Script:Start()
	System:Print(mousePickInfo.position)
end

Then I create a ray from player position to mousePickInfo.position then there is problem, the ray can not collide some areas of terrain and return 0,0,0 position, a height map was imported to construct terrain

bulletPickInfo = PickInfo()
world:Pick(
	body:GetPosition(true),
	mousePickInfo.position,
	bulletPickInfo,0.2,true,Collision.LineOfSight
)

I use a context:DrawLine to visualize the ray, and here the video, notice that when I move the mouse, sometime the red line changes its end point

 

[Turn on the forklift lights?]

I mean you can apply a material which uses emission shader only for that part of mesh (where is the light position)

then use entity:GetSurface() to change the light's stages

[Turn on the forklift lights?]

Use material with emission shader, only for that light

[Shine on materials?]

you can add a specular map to your material, that will look better than just reducing specular color.

Use photoshop to make that specular map from diffuse by black and white command, then adjust contrast.

[How to get current frame of an animation]

You can get the length of animation by using entity:GetAnimationLength()

Then how to get the current frame of an animation, I want to play a sound in the middle of animation so that I need that. Please show me  Thanks

[Camera FOV vs Camera Zoom]

I dont feel any diffirence between these functions in final resuilt when applying to a camera. So there is any way to know when to use Zoom or FOV ?

[Everytime I load a project Leadwerks cant load materials of existing models]

Maybe you should right-click on the viewport then check out RenderMode

[Everytime I load a project Leadwerks cant load materials of existing models]

I have this problem on 4.6 sometimes, my suggestion is using stable 4.5 instead

[Concern about camera?]

I use this for my weapon blocking (by wall) system, I think it will work with your camera

• You can calculate the distance between the pickInfo.position and the entity which you put start of Pick (Beam Point 1) 
• then use the maximum range of your camera to player (self.defaultCameraRange) minus that, you get the distance between MaxRange to pickInfo.position (called self.collisionMinusRange)
• Because camera point its Z axis to player, so that you can use entity:Move(0,0,self.collisionMinusRange)
• In the meantime, Use camera:SetPosition(self.beamPoint2:GetPosition(true)) to keep you camera at the maxRange when not collided any obstacle

Hope you can understand what I am trying to explain

[Health bar FOV check]

You can modify the code and make it work I think, because this function was used in my hand-made PlayerScript then I am not sure it will work on default AI / Player scripts of leadwerks.

[Health bar FOV check]

target in my function should be an entity, dont try it with Vec3() value

[Health bar FOV check]

I have a small function which can help you to define if an entity is inside a cone view of another entity.

function CheckConeView(axis,entity,target,angle)
	local z,u
	if axis == "x" then z = Transform:Point(Vec3(1,0,0),entity,nil)
	elseif axis == "y" then z = Transform:Point(Vec3(0,1,0),entity,nil)
	elseif axis == "z" then z = Transform:Point(Vec3(0,0,1),entity,nil)
	end
	u = Transform:Point(target:GetPosition(true),nil,entity)
	z = Transform:Point(z,nil,entity)
	local targetAngle = Math:ACos(u:Dot(z)/(u:Length()*z:Length()))
	if targetAngle < angle/2 then return true else return false end
end

This should be made as global function, then you can use this as below

function Script:PostRender()
	if CheckConeView("z",self.yourPlayerCamera,self.target,90) and self.targetInRange == true then
		--display health bar code
	end
end

hope this make your idea possible

[Diff/Norm/Spec/parallax/roughness shader example]

Anyone has an example of this shader usage ? I mean a collection of All texture maps which can combine together on an object. which texture slot should I put those textures into ?

By the way, Is there any tutorial which shows me how to create parallax / roughness for leadwerks

[How to control ssr shader]

Please @Josh can you make ssr depens on specular map ?

[Sharing Content]

Why dont you use all of the methods :"D I have an unique FPSPlayer Control which was built from scratch, kind of useful then I share it via my blog on this site.

[I did not find entity:SetDamping in documentation]

Thank you @macklebee this is so clear ! I wonder why there are many functions like this not in document, maybe they are unofficial but still being used in default code somewhere, making everybody confused

[How to control ssr shader]

Nouse. they are still shiny like hell : ))

 

 

[Elements / Sreenshots from our past RPG works]

Wow that UI ! what an art !

[I did not find entity:SetDamping in documentation]

I found this in default FPSPlayer.lua while testing Joint:Kinematic but had no idea what was it usage

[How to control ssr shader]

I use a material which has all 3 textures: diffuse, normal, specular then add ssr.shader to my camera

As I expect, the reflection should follow specular map to reflect scene around my object, but it doesn't. When ssr was enabled, everything was reflected on that object's face.

Adjust RGB value of Specular is the only one way to control how much reflection on that object

But when it comes almost black (to reduce reflection) specular map becomes more useless

Is there any way to really control ssr with specular map ?

[setClearColor Camera?]

You can create a simple function which helps you to convert 0-255 to 0-1

function rgba(r,g,b,a) --red green blue alpha, it is like CSS
	local rgba_value = Vec4(r/255,g/255,b/255,a)
	return rgba_value
end

--make this function global then you can use entity:SetColor(rgba(142,36,64,0.8))