Steamworks disabled when sandbox is disabled?

[Kraxie]

Hey

 

I'm quite new to the Leadwerks engine and I've been playing around with external libraries and what not.

To make this possible, I had to disable Lua Sandboxing. It then worked fine to load my library and all that works fine.

 

Only problem, this seems to have disabled Steam or Steamworks. The overlay no longer shows up and when starting the game, it no longer says that the user is in-game on Steam.

 

A steam_appid.txt and all that exists...

Anyone knows what the problem can be?

 

Thanks!

Regards, KraXarN

 

EDIT: Included app.lua if that helps

[Josh]

If you run your game from the editor, it will now show the Steam overlay because the parent application has it's overlay disabled. When you run the game on its own it will appear. Does that solve it?

[Kraxie]

It doesn't matter if I run it from the editor or run the exe file directly, I still don't get the overlay or anything :/

[Josh]

When you open steam_appid.txt, what number does it contain? This should be 480, for "Spacewar", Valve's example project.

[Kraxie]

steam_appid.txt only contains the numbers 480

[Josh]

You have to be signed into Steam (obviously).

It can take a few seconds before the overlay becomes available.

Check to make sure Steamworks:Initialize() is returning true.

[Kraxie]

I am running it through Steam, so that's running and all...

 

I tried using this code:

if not Steamworks:Initialize() then Debug:Error("Failed to load Steam") end

And it ran just fine, so it seems it returns true

[Josh]

Stupid question, but you know you have to press shift+tab to make that appear, right?

[Kraxie]

Yes

As I said before, it doesn't even say I'm in-game either on Steam, but with sandboxing enabled, it says I am.

And no "Press shift-tab in-game blah blah" either comes up...

 

It's really weird :/

[Josh]

Well by default sandboxing is disabled. It only gets enabled when -sandbox is passed in the command line arguments. So any time you run it by clicking on the EXE, sandboxing will be disabled.

 

Maybe post a small complete demo here so other people can try it?

[Kraxie]

I can, but upon actually publishing the game, Steamworks seems to always return false, both with Sandboxing enabled and disabled...