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What ? ... Iam pretty sure we agreed in some topic that "UpdateFramework()", just like "UpdateFramewerk()", does call an update on world and AppTime already - and that a second use of update calls does nothing but to make the ups displayed wrong. void Framewerk::Update() { UpdateAppTime(); SetWorld( background.GetWorld() ); UpdateWorld( AppSpeed() ); SetWorld( transparency.GetWorld() ); UpdateWorld( AppSpeed() ); SetWorld( main.GetWorld() ); UpdateWorld( AppSpeed() ); } Dont get me wrong - i talk about framework here but i had the intention it should look quit similar ... the version differences are getting on my nerves. ... "UpdateWorld()" is in charge for updating the physics as well afaik - calling it two times should/would/could fobaring quit a lot. Can this be clarified for real this time ?!

iirc i couldnt stream the video and had to use a "media" folder for the .ogg but the "Data" bit is actually the data.pak while the "Shaders.pak" is where the exe is. I have that sample "boxed" and not all media in the folder e.g. cant simply rebuild and test it atm.

I had no issues with using it in 2.31 - i dont remember if i had to set the default path to where the pak file actually is ... i have it setup like this : Initialize(); // RegisterAbstractPath("C:/Leadwerks Engine SDK/"); // Standalone : // copy archive of shaders/data into main and set values as needed. RegisterAbstractPath("./Data"); RegisterAbstractPath("./Media"); SetZipStreamPassword("Shaders.pak", "schlumperdingeryohoho"); TFramework fw = CreateFramework(); if( fw == NULL ) return FALSE; // Set Lua framework object SetGlobalObject( "fw", fw ); // Set Lua framework variable BP lua = GetLuaState(); // ....

- door flickers in open state if coming down the stairs - some invisible objects i can step on (might be snd emitters or such) - staying between the two controllers, looking at the boobs, dropped the fps to 3-6 fps (controller update) - i was able to strafe into the small wooden cart, got pushed through the terrain and the app crashed with no info - the game time does not advance for me here ... iam around 30 FPS because of my setup - might be the reason for most of the issues. Looking good - i like the take/examine feature for the inventory ... even dropped the key (of course). The sounds are nice but i guess the birds shadow does add the most real-life like feeling to the scene.

It actually looks like it`s leaking before fully loaded e.g. memory goes up&down before crash.

Hmmmm, chrome tried and asked but kept the exe locked . I allowed it, then winXP restricted the execution. After a good minute, win gave up and crashed with the windows "i dont know" app error - Fehlgeschlagene Anwendung kingdom of soul.exe, Version 0.0.0.0, fehlgeschlagenes Modul , Version 0.0.0.0, Fehleradresse 0x00000000. Some debugger and even glIntercept cant output any error.log so far.

I doubt that the editor is able to show the scenes in such a condition - he most likely doesnt had the filter settings in his sample + some pretty low screenresolution. At some point josh provided the less compressed, highres terrain textures for licensed leadwerks users for a limited time ... at first i thought that not having them could have been the issue - it usually looks much, much better - even if dds textures can be borked to a point at which no filter will save the day. I actually cant understand why artists work 14 days on highres models and distribute the extracted normalmaps in .jpg or compressed dds files ... "ok - iam done ... that was hard ... now lets destroy it". So, if you bring in your own art this might not be the norm ... a little "comparison". Left the default road_node texture - right the high-res terrain textures. >>link because screenres<<

I already see the east-egg with chickens and rocketlaunchers in the mediaeval times ... [your name here] made me write it.

Are you still pushing normalmap compression with autogen or can we have presets for uncompressed whatever ?!

PS : you cant copy "thesecretworld" ... its a crossover of left4dead and Nocturne, just like 80% of all the new horror/action games. [edit] : just kidding about review with "theSecretWorld" in your "LE Community Project, Inspiration" video.

We had that in the forum some time ago but with self-contained lua objects ... the dummy object would just load its sub-parts like you do too : --Load all the parts for the models -- object.mezzHouse_parts01_groof =LoadModel("abstract::gTown_smallBlock_mezzHouse_parts01_groof.gmf") object.mezzHouse_parts01_gfloor=LoadModel("abstract::gTown_smallBlock_mezzHouse_parts01_gfloor.gmf") object.mezzHouse_parts01_gwalls_1=LoadModel("abstract::gTown_smallBlock_mezzHouse_parts01_gwalls_1.gmf") object.mezzHouse_parts01_gwalls_2=LoadModel("abstract::gTown_smallBlock_mezzHouse_parts01_gwalls_2.gmf") but since all loaded models can have its own lua script we made a simple camera-distance check to repaint the part in question with a transparent material like : if fw~=nil then object.model:Hide() -- pick1 = LinePick(campos, camera.position, 1, nil) pick2 = CameraPick(camera,Vec3(GraphicsWidth()/2,GraphicsHeight()/2, 20.0),0,0) object.model:Show() -- if pick1~=nil then SetWorld(fw.main.world) end if pick2~=nil then SetWorld(fw.transparency.world) object.model:Paint(LoadMaterial("abstract::dirtyglass2.mat"), 1) SetWorld(fw.main.world) else -- [fixme] rePaint original material ... -- and scale materials alpha value by distance (glFragData.w) object.model:Paint(LoadMaterial("abstract::gTown_1_1024.mat"), 1) end end ... the issue which came up was that lights and skinned models are occlussion culled by default and "cant" deal with this way of half-transparency. A real shader for this might work however if you push the object in question into the transparent world.

One usually just needs a good texture editor and a mass viewer like irfanView ... gimp with the dds & normalmap plugin .. dont miss the CeGui layout plugin, if you work with that. PSP was the all time awesome program for alpha channel and texture mixing tasks ... thx to you photo editing, red-eye removers - it was left-behind and we all now have to life with the mediocre - since psp 7 seams to keep crashing with winXP sp3 and up. http://portableapps.com/apps

I do not exactly "destroy/delete" structures but reInit them with scene values ... e.g. the camera gets places at an "info_player" which is fetched on scene load. // -- // Prepare App for new sceneLoad if( KeyHit(KEY_F5) ) { ResetFramework(); playerIndex01.~cController(); playerIndex01.SetCamera( GetLayerCamera( _layer_main ) ); playerIndex01.CreatePlayer(); scene.~cScene(); scene.Load( "abstract::SceneParaTropique_GTownCamp.sbx" ); // add camera from scene PositionEntity( playerIndex01.GetCamera(), scene.GetCameraPos() ); RotateEntity( playerIndex01.GetCamera(), scene.GetCameraRot() ); // add controller from scene camera PositionEntity( playerIndex01.GetPlayer(), scene.GetCameraPos() ); } else if( KeyHit(KEY_F6) ) { ResetFramework(); playerIndex01.~cController(); playerIndex01.SetCamera( GetLayerCamera( _layer_main ) ); playerIndex01.CreatePlayer(); scene.~cScene(); scene.Load( "abstract::SceneParaTropique_GTownBlank.sbx" ); // add camera from scene PositionEntity( playerIndex01.GetCamera(), scene.GetCameraPos() ); RotateEntity( playerIndex01.GetCamera(), scene.GetCameraRot() ); // add controller from scene camera PositionEntity( playerIndex01.GetPlayer(), scene.GetCameraPos() ); } Which means on start of the game and only the menu comes up (going back to menu in your case) i have a default.sbx scene loaded with a controller in the background. I do this to keep some "game assets" around which keeps load times somewhat shorter and for the menu background world. If a "CreatePlayer" has to add a controllable player or just the camera could be fetched with Set/GetKey for init_spawnpoint Vs. player_spawnpoint ... Load/Save belongs to "CreatePlayer" then imo. a little dodgy to explane but hth ...

I am not too sure about when stuff gets called ... e.g. onReset() Vs. doReset() would have been more clear. I`ll test that out again then ... the issue iam having is to build positionable game entity`s w/o disturbing the update loop. A combination of Reset() and UnlockKeys() does work currently but going for random tests is not a preferable task ... but you know that.

... while we are on it, the template.lua got a Reset function. --[[ function object:Reset() end ]]-- When and how will it be called e.g. automatically like UnlockKeys ?!

from switch.lua - does this actually mean something or is it outdated... function object:Reset() self.model:SetKey("active","0") self.model:SetKey("valuetouse","1") self.model:SetKey("keytoset0","active") self.model:SetKey("arguments","self.active") self.model:SetKey("message0","Run Code") self.model:SetKey("message1","Activate") self.model:SetKey("reloadafterscript","1") self.disable = 0 end thx

Hmm, ok - version 1.01 actually is r16 ... thought i got a outdated version ... all good.

Well - which copy of what is that then ... is that the very basic stuff e.g. how to start the editor.exe or what.

I wrote a 3x3 grid of planes treadmill. Currently the whole grid is repositioned if the camera would exiting the range of 1 tile size (from center to center). Obviously that just works if the camera if following n/s/w/e exactly (the tilable texture dictates) - if going diagonal the camera is located between the tiles and repositioning does "snap" the view/grid to the center of the treedmill again (very noticable because of the tilable texture). question : How do i rewrite the grid repositioning to find the exact opposite point ? currently : require("scripts/class") require("scripts/constants/collision_const") local class=CreateClass(...) function class:CreateObject(model) local object=self.super:CreateObject(model) -- Load all the parts for the 3x3 grid -- & setup --[[ \ | / patch 1, 2, 3 - o - patch 4, 5, 6 / | \ patch 7, 8, 9 -- --]] local oldViewPos local newViewPos local patchPos local viewLevel = -1.0 function object:Init() patchPos = Vec3(0,0,0) patchPos.y = patchPos.y + viewLevel self.model:SetPosition(patchPos) oldViewPos = self.model.position newViewPos = fw.main.camera.position -- preSetup w/o update -- self.treadmill_patch1:SetPosition( Vec3(patchPos.x-340, patchPos.y, patchPos.z+340), 1) self.treadmill_patch2:SetPosition( Vec3(patchPos.x, patchPos.y, patchPos.z+340), 1) self.treadmill_patch3:SetPosition( Vec3(patchPos.x+340, patchPos.y, patchPos.z+340), 1) self.treadmill_patch4:SetPosition( Vec3(patchPos.x-340, patchPos.y, patchPos.z), 1) self.treadmill_patch5:SetPosition( Vec3(patchPos.x, patchPos.y, patchPos.z), 1) self.treadmill_patch6:SetPosition( Vec3(patchPos.x+340, patchPos.y, patchPos.z), 1) self.treadmill_patch7:SetPosition( Vec3(patchPos.x-340, patchPos.y, patchPos.z-340), 1) self.treadmill_patch8:SetPosition( Vec3(patchPos.x, patchPos.y, patchPos.z-340), 1) self.treadmill_patch9:SetPosition( Vec3(patchPos.x+340, patchPos.y, patchPos.z-340), 1) end object.treadmill_patch1=LoadModel("abstract::treadmill_patch1.gmf") object.treadmill_patch2=LoadModel("abstract::treadmill_patch2.gmf") object.treadmill_patch3=LoadModel("abstract::treadmill_patch3.gmf") object.treadmill_patch4=LoadModel("abstract::treadmill_patch4.gmf") object.treadmill_patch5=LoadModel("abstract::treadmill_patch5.gmf") object.treadmill_patch6=LoadModel("abstract::treadmill_patch6.gmf") object.treadmill_patch7=LoadModel("abstract::treadmill_patch7.gmf") object.treadmill_patch8=LoadModel("abstract::treadmill_patch8.gmf") object.treadmill_patch9=LoadModel("abstract::treadmill_patch9.gmf") object.treadmill_patch1:SetCollisionType( COLLISION_SCENE, 0 ) object.treadmill_patch2:SetCollisionType( COLLISION_SCENE, 0 ) object.treadmill_patch3:SetCollisionType( COLLISION_SCENE, 0 ) object.treadmill_patch4:SetCollisionType( COLLISION_SCENE, 0 ) object.treadmill_patch5:SetCollisionType( COLLISION_SCENE, 0 ) object.treadmill_patch6:SetCollisionType( COLLISION_SCENE, 0 ) object.treadmill_patch7:SetCollisionType( COLLISION_SCENE, 0 ) object.treadmill_patch8:SetCollisionType( COLLISION_SCENE, 0 ) object.treadmill_patch9:SetCollisionType( COLLISION_SCENE, 0 ) --parent all parts to form the model -- object.treadmill_patch1:SetParent(object.model) object.treadmill_patch2:SetParent(object.model) object.treadmill_patch3:SetParent(object.model) object.treadmill_patch4:SetParent(object.model) object.treadmill_patch5:SetParent(object.model) object.treadmill_patch6:SetParent(object.model) object.treadmill_patch7:SetParent(object.model) object.treadmill_patch8:SetParent(object.model) object.treadmill_patch9:SetParent(object.model) --object handling will now be performed relative to its parent -- object.treadmill_patch1:SetPosition(object.model.position, 1) object.treadmill_patch1:SetRotation(object.model.rotation, 1) object.treadmill_patch2:SetPosition(object.model.position, 1) object.treadmill_patch2:SetRotation(object.model.rotation, 1) object.treadmill_patch3:SetPosition(object.model.position, 1) object.treadmill_patch3:SetRotation(object.model.rotation, 1) object.treadmill_patch4:SetPosition(object.model.position, 1) object.treadmill_patch4:SetRotation(object.model.rotation, 1) object.treadmill_patch5:SetPosition(object.model.position, 1) object.treadmill_patch5:SetRotation(object.model.rotation, 1) object.treadmill_patch6:SetPosition(object.model.position, 1) object.treadmill_patch6:SetRotation(object.model.rotation, 1) object.treadmill_patch7:SetPosition(object.model.position, 1) object.treadmill_patch7:SetRotation(object.model.rotation, 1) object.treadmill_patch8:SetPosition(object.model.position, 1) object.treadmill_patch8:SetRotation(object.model.rotation, 1) object.treadmill_patch9:SetPosition(object.model.position, 1) object.treadmill_patch9:SetRotation(object.model.rotation, 1) function object:Update() local distance local range = 340 patchPos = fw.main.camera:GetPosition() patchPos.y = viewLevel distance = PointDistance(oldViewPos, newViewPos) print(" distance : ", tonumber(distance) ) if ( distance > range) then print("exiting range : ", tonumber(distance) ) -- ?! -- ?!self.model:SetRotation(Vec3(0,self.model.rotation.y+fw.main.camera.rotation.y,0), 1) -- ?! patchPos.x = newViewPos.x-range patchPos.z = newViewPos.z+range self.treadmill_patch1:SetPosition( patchPos, 1) -- ?!self.treadmill_patch1:SetRotation(Vec3(0,fw.main.camera.rotation.y,0), 1) patchPos.x = newViewPos.x patchPos.z = newViewPos.z+range self.treadmill_patch2:SetPosition( patchPos, 1) -- ?!self.treadmill_patch2:SetRotation(Vec3(0,fw.main.camera.rotation.y,0), 1) patchPos.x = newViewPos.x+range patchPos.z = newViewPos.z+range self.treadmill_patch3:SetPosition( patchPos, 1) -- ?!self.treadmill_patch3:SetRotation(Vec3(0,fw.main.camera.rotation.y,0), 1) patchPos.x = newViewPos.x-range patchPos.z = newViewPos.z self.treadmill_patch4:SetPosition( patchPos, 1) -- ?!self.treadmill_patch4:SetRotation(Vec3(0,fw.main.camera.rotation.y,0), 1) patchPos.x = newViewPos.x patchPos.z = newViewPos.z self.treadmill_patch5:SetPosition( patchPos, 1) -- ?!self.treadmill_patch5:SetRotation(Vec3(0,fw.main.camera.rotation.y,0), 1) patchPos.x = newViewPos.x+range patchPos.z = newViewPos.z self.treadmill_patch6:SetPosition( patchPos, 1) -- ?!self.treadmill_patch6:SetRotation(Vec3(0,fw.main.camera.rotation.y,0), 1) patchPos.x = newViewPos.x-range patchPos.z = newViewPos.z-range self.treadmill_patch7:SetPosition( patchPos, 1) -- ?!self.treadmill_patch7:SetRotation(Vec3(0,fw.main.camera.rotation.y,0), 1) patchPos.x = newViewPos.x patchPos.z = newViewPos.z-range self.treadmill_patch8:SetPosition( patchPos, 1) -- ?!self.treadmill_patch8:SetRotation(Vec3(0,fw.main.camera.rotation.y,0), 1) patchPos.x = newViewPos.x+range patchPos.z = newViewPos.z-range self.treadmill_patch9:SetPosition( patchPos, 1) -- ?!self.treadmill_patch9:SetRotation(Vec3(0,fw.main.camera.rotation.y,0), 1) oldViewPos = fw.main.camera:GetPosition() oldViewPos.y = viewLevel end end --[[ function object:Collision(entity,position,normal,force,speed) end ]]-- --[[ function object:UpdateMatrix() self.treadmill_patch1:SetPosition(self.model:GetPosition(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch1:SetRotation(self.model:GetRotation(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch2:SetPosition(self.model:GetPosition(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch2:SetRotation(self.model:GetRotation(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch3:SetPosition(self.model:GetPosition(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch3:SetRotation(self.model:GetRotation(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch4:SetPosition(self.model:GetPosition(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch4:SetRotation(self.model:GetRotation(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch5:SetPosition(self.model:GetPosition(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch5:SetRotation(self.model:GetRotation(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch6:SetPosition(self.model:GetPosition(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch6:SetRotation(self.model:GetRotation(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch7:SetPosition(self.model:GetPosition(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch7:SetRotation(self.model:GetRotation(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch8:SetPosition(self.model:GetPosition(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch8:SetRotation(self.model:GetRotation(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch9:SetPosition(self.model:GetPosition(0), 1) self.treadmill_patch9:SetRotation(self.model:GetRotation(0), 1) end ]]-- object:Init() function object:Free(model) self.super:Free() end end PS : you might ignore "object:init()" and "object:UpdateMatrix()" plus you might replace ":update()" with ":draw()". tia

... posted in wrong forum ... this topic can be deleted - i moved it to scripts.

had been outsmarted by fuzzy logic because fuzzy defines what a agent/bot wants to goal in relationship of what is resonable in a certain situation - last thing i road however is that neural nets are considered practical in city-raceGames. quake2 is still the best solution to learn/test/debug AI ... link : http://botepidemic.no-origin.net/neuralbot/index.htm give`em pain & hf

Leadwerks light`s do allow us to use a projected textures as lightfilter ... these are just 2d textures though. If someone is able to compute the vec3 texcoord for cubemap projections in the pointlight.frag shader, please contribute your solution ! What it does ...cubemap projected lights are an old trick to display "fake" volumetric lighting used for water caustics, gas lanterns, disco lights and other light related fx ...

Of course and i surely would like to contribute ... looking forward to what you can come up with ...

Well, basically you guys team up to build a techdemo which is kind of the game i spend somewhat a year in manhours to plan, prepare and code ... awesome.

Hey, i like to showcase something slightly different this time ... e.g. everything. Well, not really "everything" but a good bunch of my world and character model art-assets. Look at my .sig. or go straight to devmex.com - hope you like. More to come ... PS : you can find more about 'this' & 'my' projects AT by blog. [edit] Oh, i dont offer gmf just yet because than i would need to fulfill requests of other gamemodel formats too - i tested the 2.31 and 2.5 tools to process fbx files (i have all my models in gmf) without failure however. thanks for reading :--)