DigitalHax

It may be me being very very stupid, but ... Isn't that the way that keyboards work nowdays?

Only certain (more expensive keyboards) are mechanical. Most keyboards function through the key pressing on a membrane dome which flexes and retracts.

Doesn't it depend on the consequences? If Josh didn't have to charge anyone anything any more for updates (or even make Leadwerks free), he could hire a team to speed up production and really finish Leadwerks by the end of the year... to me that would be awesome. Of course I doubt Microsoft would get involved in any way with Linux but if it was another company...?

You doubt?

OFC it depends on consequences but thing is some of us know some companies too well that we can say beforehand what consequences will happen.

Well actually Microsoft is always trying to make things difficult for Linux community in anyway possible.

You can really see here Linux community pissing against the wind.

it's 1 BIG strong hurricane.

The only advantage we do have is numbers.

Like I said many times I still have 300€ -...

All the things Oculus is talking about now...virtual malls, virtual theaters. It was all tried with regular 3D graphics. Non-gamers do not care about that stuff.

Judging by how close together in time they were posted and the account similarity, it may have been a spam bot-net for website links.

And now outlook.com is forever banned.

Good I didn't register with my outlook account then

Yes Congrats Josh nice work. Damn.. I re-written this so many times as I don't want to start any kind flame war here! Have decided to leave it out. Unity really has some sort of hold over people. Reminds me of when Torque was big, like a horse with there blinkers on.

If people still cant decide I'll leave them with this... it's MUCH easier to sneak passed $100 than $1500 passed your wife, yeah just try to tell her its for shadows I dare ya =).

I agree with you Rick. I believe this is the kind of business where you need to be open minded about what's new and experiment with what's out there.

Except for a couple of obvious astroturfers, I think it's been pretty tame. A little debate is to be expected since it's a new approach for many people.

My main game is in CPP

i don´t know what a IRC (Internet Relay Chat) has to do with a forum? I think more of a live-chat.

My assumption is that's what he meant. If LE could have some official IRC or I guess the community could create one too.

Use freenode?

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=Leadwerks

using wifi?

Well yes, but the thing is every other device in the house can connect easily, yet not my laptop.

Sounds like a driver issue with your laptop wifi module. What laptop make and model?

I would suggest making a simple version of the mesh (basic volumes), export as an OBJ and convert to a convex hull using obj2phy (or phygen). Then you need to create a LUA script to give it some mass.

If it is right, you are winner. If not you have to go over it all again. It's a complete arse if you have to do it dozens of times.

Which you probably will do as your model evolves, or you need to adjust the collision mesh.

Works like a charm! Thanks guys!

why so big ? use tiling texture instead.

why so big ? use tiling texture instead.

Na it's an earth texture map

It might be the first video game movie that doesn't suck. Maybe.

I've noticed Left 4 Dead has more character development than most of what's coming from Hollywood.

Indeed

hmmm I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem but the animator is not an animation system. It is a tool to animate a single object and it is usually held within a class like NPC... each instance of animator can only manage animation of one model. Also it should be "idle" not Idle...(no capital) idle is the only animation this rule applies to. I mention it in the comments of the code.

Also I uploaded an example so check it out.

The reason for this is that when the animator has nothing else to do it automatically defaults to the idle animation. It thinks the Idle animation is stored with name "idle"... so when it tries to default and doesn't find idle.. you get a NULL pointer to an Animation Struct... bowm bowm... crash. You could add in a test to see if it's NULL first and then not animate... however, 1 what character doesn't have an idle animation and 2... i cbf doing it myself.

Ok thanks, and yeah I am aware of he fact that it is for just one object. I was just being very boring in naming it

and there was me thinking it was a flamethrower

This is a joke, right?

lol@ken!

Josh should have a vlog =)

Look at this, the old thread on facepunch -

http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1095518

You're welcome.. Here's another one that should be worth trying out http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/files/file/390-animator-class/

I just love experimenting with materials in different ways!

I think my son would enjoy that ... thanks!

Some people can make some crazy advanced things. Like whole CPUs and basic computers that can run equations. Me? I mostly focus on bombs and lasers

Usually you need to convert example shaders to the engine you are using, meaning matrices and uniforms are named explicit for the engine, meaning rendermonkey and FX composer won't really work to create shaders for LE. My best tip to learn is to mod existing shaders. Learn the uniforms at play and go from there.

Shader programming is nothing special in terms of a programming language. It's just C with some additions.

The main thing you have to learn is how to design a shader, before starting to write a shader.

All the other GLSL/HLSL related stuff can be learned quickly using some tutorials/reference cards.

But the best way to learn shader designing, is to look at some example shaders, on the net, or in shaders.pak. Also ShaderX series is awesome for this purpose. It contains some...

...REAL shaders used in REAL games, with explanations from the authors.

BTW, render monkey from ATI is really good for prototyping new shaders. But then you have to change input/outputs of the shader to match your target engine (LE in this case). But without such tool it's much slower to design and prototype a new algorithm.

Ah thanks! I kinda figured that would be the same as setzoom. I will look into that later.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. ~John Peel

maybe those who also purchased the texture pack might just tip it into a cash back situation

yup Pixel, I'd love that

There's still a lot of work before its ready but we did manage to make a simple game with it.

Exciting

Well congrats Josh anyway!

Hah yeah. You know I have an Ipad app that is a million times better than CoD zombes for free

I liked dayZ.... but the bugginess of it being a mod and the dodgy zombies ruined it for me. Hopefully the standalone will fix all that.

I also hated the AI.... or rather the lack thereof

I used to think how simple it would be if I could just send keyboard/mouse input to server and get game data back but I think it's more complex than that. Connection is not reliable so holding down a button on the client won't look like you're holding it down on the server. This is where interpolation comes into play. But I admit to knowing very little about this.

I have actually got almost everything working so far! I have a character controller on both client and server and it is fully working!

@gamecreator Yeh the actual neworking part of connecting and sending information is easy. Its the tricks you need to do like the prediction and interpolation that make it hard. <- these things actually have nothing to do with networking though they are just logic problems

Well, if you win a prize for it...