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  1. Not sure why one would fault GTK for being asynchronous - aren't all modern GUI API's multithreaded/event driven these days?

     

    Also setting a input and then immediately reading it is not a use case that would ever happen, and goes against the intended use because you'd spend a lot of time in idle wait polling a input box instead of simply subscribing to the event ( changed signal in gtk speak ).

     

    The simple truth is that any unfamiliar API is going to seem idiotic until you become familiar enough with it to use if comfortable - for instance I still curse every time I come across the Leadwerks input API. My solution here has been to do a hacky api wrapper to make it behave event style - this predictably is horribly unstable because I'm using it in an unintended way.

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  2. So I followed a link to captain shotgun, to kickstarter, never been there before, so had a quick look around, and found this.

     

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elanlee/exploding-kittens?ref=category_popular

     

    they only wanted $10,000, I cant tell you how much they have now, but its over $8million. There's only 4 hours left but backers seem to be going nuts for it. Watched the counter for 1 minute and it went up by $4000.

     

    Thought I would bring it to the forums attention, as it might help someone design their Kickstarter campaign.

     

    I do believe the reason that this one went nuts is Matthew Inman, they guy is a modern King Midas

  3. I do not know if this helps, but it looks like AMD is having problems with flickering all over the place:

    https://www.google.se/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=radeon+hd+6850+linux+catalyst+driver+flickering+site:forums.amd.com

     

    I found some Linux Catalyst 13 dirvers in the mix and various cards including 6850 so do you see this problem in other OpenGL apps?

     

    No - which is not much of a supprise as it seems to be a windows issue with 13.12 ( the "linux" google picks up on is from the page tree in the side bar )

  4. oh I so prefer krita over Gimp any day not only the photoshop stylish interface but it has a seamless texture option which is awesome, and more biggrin.png

     

    Both are fine editors but I find the reason you chose one over the other a bit whimsical - your prerogative of course ;)

     

    But in gimp Window -> single window mode

    And depending on what you mean with the seamless texture gimp has auto seamless ( only really work with textures with no real pattern to them ) and offset x,y for manually making your textures seamless

  5. Blender went this route, but they have a paid team and (contrary to the kickstarter page's promise of " our team has a lot of experience with multi-platform development" ) Leadwerks does not.

     

    I've before suggested that He hire an experienced consultant to code the UI in GTK+ (or Qt, wx, etc ) a complete recode is not necessary - between glade and gtkbuilder a reworked UI should be done in no time flat and the consultant could focus on helping josh tie in the code bits that responds to the evens ( showing images/opengl contexts/altering states, etc ).

     

    ofcourse this rests on the silly notion that the editor components is written in C, C++, python or one of the myriad languages that actually have gtkbuilder bindings.

  6. I am a happy Linux user too. I have had few problems with Leadwerks.

     

    Could you clarify please what that means? are these bugs not happening to you or are you just ignoring them?

     

    Edit; I see you've listed Windows 7 as among'st your OS'es - I assume your using the editor from there?

  7. I can understand wanting paint to make it look better.. But would a robotic civilisation really care about estetics? And if so would they so closely resemble our own? Just some thing to ponder

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    That attitude doesn't make me feel good about an operating system that already has ten times more little niggles and gotchas than Windows or Mac. I don't think you guys realize the disproportionate amount of problems I experience with Linux.

     

    *My* attitude?

    I've been very calm and accepting of the myriad of bugs - even when the product is barely usable to me. I then point out (in response to your "that's news to me" remark ) that in the bug thread you merged that I no less than 3 times point out that I use AMD so it's properly not exclusive to nvidia.

    Hell the link you posted to nvidia jumps directly to a post by me stating that the issue is happing on AMD.

     

    I really don't believe it's out of line for me to suggest you've not read the bug report when you are surprised by it's contents.

     

    But so be it I'll go back to silently wishing that one day my 200$ Kickstarter investment will pay off.

     

    PS. Yougrove you publicly questioned why Linux users have not made a ruckus about the issues.. Are you still wondering?

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  9. This is the first I have heard of this.

     

     

    The very link in that nVidia post you made is of me reiterating that it's affecting AMD users, after you merged my bug report of the issue into the nvidia thread claiming it to be a nvidia issue... Maybe if you read the damn bug reports :(

  10. That is very odd, but uh the problem might be caused by it by intersecting into the walls or what ever as in general you don't want most things intersecting into something. make sure it's not intersecting.

     

    I've also heard that the Linux App version is pretty buggy as well right now

     

    and uh I don't think Linux Mint 17 is considered supported, only Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit was it?(correct me if I am wrong haven't used Linux in a long time) has been tested.

     

    Mint is Ubuntu with a different desktop environment - everything else is the same (quite literaly they start with ubuntu 14.04, remove unity and add in a non retarded desktop ). However if you report a bug and it's no ubuntu 14.04 it gets rejected

  11. I'll edit this post tomorrow with more details when I get around to playing with the Editor some more... But so far my experience with it on my Arch system seems to be pretty smooth. The mousewheel works everywhere. The scene tab works.

     

    Repeat these steps

     

    And tell me if it works as intended ( ie the the scene tab does not get drawn ontop of the really selected tab ) please tell us your system specifics ( GFX brand, driver & kernel version ). It would be valuable data for fixing it for the rest of us :)

  12. Model viewer/editor not working is a problem - not really critical once you have your pipeline sorted, but a bit a pain when you haven't, and a very obviously broken piece of the editor suite.

     

    I'm curious how do you break up animations?

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    Now it's not all bad;the localized numeric input for instance has been fixed.

     

    There may well be more issues than above, but I've completely stopped using the editor except for testing bugs.

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  14. Making the editor open-source would definitely be a self destructive path. Especially for a small company like Leadwerks. This will lead to multiple incarnations of the same source base with many forks, patches and what not. Josh will loose control over it instantly.

     

    Not really no - you have an official upstream, if you fix something you must make a pull request that patches cleanly against upstream.

     

    Almost all opensource development works like this - if the your patch doesn't work it wont get mergede, heck if the upstream maintainer doesn't like the feature he is free to reject it as well.

     

    I'm not saying that opensource is the way to go (in fact I'm almost certain that that will fail - primarily due to it apparently being in "blitz basic" and not c/c++ ), I just like to point out a common misconception. :)

     

    Then you will end up in worse situation because people will use non-official editions and complain that all the bugs are related to the engine.

     

    While this happens from time to time in the opensource environment, it's very easy to simply say "your using an un-official branch, please direct your inquiry to the maintainer of said branch - alternatively use the official stable release you can find here"

     

    I think the only time I've seen it get ugly is gnome3 vs mate - but then that whole thing is part religion anyway ;)

  15. What Linux system distros are supported on other 3D engines ?

     

    I suppose you mean "major" ones and not Ogre3d, Irrilicth, etc..

     

    At the time of the kickstarter - none, hence why I backed it - I am being told ( but I haven't tested it, since I find their licensing terms unacceptable ) that UE 4 works on Ubuntu LTS ( and derivatives, like kbuntu, mint, .. ), Fedora (Redhat's consumer version), Arch and gentoo.

     

    For non Linux users, the important point here is to note gentoo as it's a compile everything your self kind of os where you get machine instructions on how to make it work ( .ebuild's ) so if it works here you pretty much be guaranteed it will work everywhere.

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