[Face settings brokes in prefab]

Let's test with this:

test.rar

[Enabling SSR disables posteffects and skybox]

This is from my current build, once the SSR was fixed.

[Enabling SSR disables posteffects and skybox]

It appears the effect is not working in the editor and is causing errors to be printed...

[Enabling SSR disables posteffects and skybox]

In the editor or in a C++ program?

[AlphaMask hides mesh in game & thumbnail]

Okay, it was just a missing shader combo.

[AlphaMask hides mesh in game & thumbnail]

The reason for this has something to do with the camera depth prepass, which indicates a problem with the depth shader...

[Posteffects are multiplied by rearranging them in the editor]

This will be fixed in a build later today.

[Created camera doesn't get icon in the viewport until close/reopen the scene again]

It just needed a matrix update to be forced for some reason, to update the sprite entity showing the icon. This is fixed for the next build.

[Quake loader plugin can't load sprites]

I am going to leave this "unsolved" until we decide what to do with this.

[Non-latin symbols not displayed]

As for the font rendering, I need to modify the way the font texture works...

[Non-latin symbols not displayed]

It's normal that a plugin cannot be loaded from a zip archive, because under the hood this is using the Win32 function LoadLibrary. There may be a win32 function to load a library from memory, but I have not confirmed whether there the equivalent functions for Mac and Linux exist.

[Editor can't see subfolders in zip archive]

Okay, I just had to make a small change to the way the zip file names are evaluated.

[Assimp loading code]

I think the next step is to work this library into a standard Ultra C++ project so we can all test different files and see how well it works.

[Assimp loading code]

55 minutes ago, Andy90 said:

This is interesting. I dont know this. Maybe its possible with this to load files from a server.

Yes, I believe this is what I was asking for.

[Release Notes]

0.9.5

Everything updated, on Steam and standalone, this sorts out the terrain problem. Nothing had to be programmed, I just had to make sure all the executables, libraries, and shaders were really up to date.

[Assimp loading code]

It doesn't appear the library supports loading files from memory, if the model consists of more than one file, like external textures, or in the case of glTF, an external binary file. I asked about it here but have not received a response yet:
https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues/5511

[Release Notes]

0.9.5

Standalone build is updated.

[Assimp loading code]

I am starting to investigate the assimp library. Posting some code to come back to when I am ready to continue:

    Assimp::Importer importer;
    auto d = CurrentDir();
    auto path = d.ToUtf8String() + "/Models/xxxxxxxxx.gltf";

    const aiScene* scene = importer.ReadFile(path, 0);

    if (!scene || scene->mFlags & AI_SCENE_FLAGS_INCOMPLETE || !scene->mRootNode) {
        // Error handling if the file fails to load
        return -1;
    }

    auto node = scene->mRootNode;
    
    auto name = node->mName;

    // Process meshes attached to the current node (if any)
    for (unsigned int i = 0; i < node->mNumMeshes; i++)
    {
        aiMesh* mesh = scene->mMeshes[node->mMeshes[i]];
        // Process the mesh as needed
    }

    // Recursively process child nodes
    for (unsigned int i = 0; i < node->mNumChildren; i++)
    {
        
    }

 

[Release Notes]

0.9.5

• Updated the pro version on Steam to fix zip archive bug.

[Can't load a file from a package]

Ah, I see. Right now you can just add a call to FileType() and it will trigger a rebuild of the archive directory structure. I will have a build up this morning that doesn't require this:

#include "UltraEngine.h"

using namespace UltraEngine;

int main(int argc, const char* argv[])
{
    auto package = LoadPackage("Data.zip");
    if (package == nullptr) { Notify("No Package Found"); }

    package->FileType("");
    auto font = LoadFont("Fonts\\ZippedArial.ttf");
    if (not font) Notify("No Font Found");

    return 0;
}

 

[Shadow Banding]

I do not see this on my AMD 6600, but it does seem sort of familiar...

[Shadow Banding]

That is some very strong banding that does not look like shadow maps.

[Release Notes]

0.9.5

• Update to solve the duplicate components when entities are copied in editor bug.
• If you have any compiling problems, updating VS will solve it. I think I solved it regardless, but will hold off until tomorrow to upload another update.

[Can't build after last update in beta steam branch]

Now we will never know if my fix worked! 

But I think it probably will.

[Steam vs Subscription]

I don't know. I prefer the subscription model and would love to have a recurring revenue stream independent from Steam, but people often have a set way of doing things so I can't be too pushy with incentives.