Josh

It's amazing how ignorant everyone was before the internet. If I wonder about some government document from the 1800s or how much weight a swallow can carry, I can find out in less than ten seconds.

Blending is a fixed-function operation, and cannot be written with a shader. The blend modes are listed in the material editor. I don't know what a color blend would be, or if it is supported on the hardware.

I would just use a single decal entity you write a script for. It can be much simpler than the road script.

I don't know, there may be some more fundamental ways this changes the medium. It's kind of like a YouTube for games.

A cube map is what you want. There are some demos posted on http://forum.leadwerks.com with this.

Probably because their presentation of their product at the time was better. By the way, TGC sells Leadwerks Engine, so it's not TGC vs. Leadwerks, it's DarkGDK vs. Leadwerks Engine.

There are two cameras. Unlike the Highlander, there can be more than one.

Yes.

I've got a 3870 with drivers 10.1 and everything seems fine on Windows 7 64-bit. Download the new drivers and see if that helps. You might also turn off HDR and tell me if that makes any difference.

$14.99 to download a movie?

The OS/interface looks nicer and it's touch-screen. The book page-turning looks really fun. You'd have to pay for every single song and movie, though, wouldn't you? Or would you be able to copy your DVDs and CDs to Apple's file formats?

I think the appeal is you can sit in a coffee shop and watch a movie, write email, or listen to music, and it's much less bulky than a laptop.

It's all in the presentation.

When OnLive was first announced, I thought it couldn't ever work, because of latency issues. After my recent networking work, I think it might actually be feasible. We had fast enough response times that we could play lagless games with server-controlled physics, which is similar to the way OnLive works. A lot of our tests were performed with intercontinental connections, and of course those will have significant latency. We found that when playing within 1000 miles of the server latency was much less of an issue. I'm sort of interested from a consumer standpoint. If I can just pay a flat subscription fee and have access to a lot of games, that would be pretty appealing. There's a lot of games I would be interested in playing that I don't want to fork out $50 for. If I was paying to use them as part of a package of games, it would provide a lot more variety for your money. What do you think? Will OnLive change the face of gaming, or will it be a flop? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6B4kAqkCZY&NR=1

Vegetation meshes should have no hierarchy, i.e. all surfaces should belong to one top-level mesh. This is important for speed, so the billboard generation routine doesn't even bother with any subhierarchy in the mesh. I suspect this is the problem.

The program that started it all, Cartography Shop is now free. When you are ready to take the next step in level design, check out 3D World Studio for terrain, meshes, advanced lighting, faster performance, and more. The price of 3D World Studio has been lowered to $49.95.

Whoops, that is true.

I think right now he is just trying to get the basics done.

This would make a great new resource: http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/page/index.html?do=add&category=1

I added a license section in the file info for all media files. To search for multiple terms, add + before each word, I think. We'll get it fixed so that is the default behavior.

I added a couple of tutorials to the resources. I like this system. I deleted the non-serious articles. Please add your own articles now. http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/page/index.html

The iphone can't run Lua?

I am actually sort of interested in this. Not sure why, but it seems like a fun gadget. Don't you have to vote Democrat to buy an Apple product, though? In the future, the only place for us to expand to will be low-performance devices like this. We're getting to where the engine's strength is becoming the art pipeline and scripting, not just graphics. So in the future I could see a low-res renderer being added to work with things like the Apple Tablet.

I just tried the vc project included in the lesson with no problems. You can view the tutorial here now: http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/page/index.html?record=10

I added support to embed vimeo movies. Just use the regular media BB code. The resources section seems pretty good for tutorials, and I am testing it out by migrating a few lessons there: http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/page/index.html?record=9