[No Materials management tools in the Terrain Panel]

I open the terrain panel and I have no Material tools.

[What if I was a first time user?]

The release of the new engine is near.

So what if I was a first time user of UltraEngine?

I install vulkan, VS studio, VS code and the engine as per the instructions., login and head to the documentation.

I create a new project and run the sln file in VS as instructed.

The example never runs as the Map folder and the "Start" map doesn't exist.

Ok so I move on.

I run the first example in the documentation, copying and pasting as instructed.

This is a program to load a model.

It fails to run as it cannot open source file :"Component /CameraControls.hpp".

The path needs to be "Components/Player/CameraControls.hpp".

OK so I'm smart enough to spot this and fix it.

The program then fails with a "Post effect is Null" error.

I know this seems like nitpicking but if a new user starts their UltraEngine journey with problem after problem then this forum is going to be inundated with angry users. 

Nobody will care if UltraEngine is 10X faster than Unity if they cant get the first examples to run.

I really want UltraEngine to be a success and you only get one chance for a first impression so lets make it a good one   

 

 

 

[Ultra does not work with AMD RX6800M, AMD RX6900 XT]

Interested to see how this works out.

I'm looking at building  new PC in the near future and AMD cards seem  to provide the best bang for buck but I'm happy to pay a little extra for a GPU that plays nicely with Ultra Engine.

[Upgrading Project]

I had similar problems with Norton Antivirus.

I just excluded Editor.exe and UltraEngine and everything works.

[Shader Tutorial]

Philips tutorials are very good.

Another good source is nice.aces video series.

 

[Workflow for high quality Doom-like scifi textures and models]

It might be worth sounding out TWahl.

He did some very nice textures a while back. He used 3ds Max and Substance painter.

 

[Mouse Angle & Mouse Cross Hair]

I haven't made a game like this but this is how I would go about it.

Split your main character into 2 parts.

Part 1 is the legs which will be controlled by the WASD keys. the animation for them determined by which way the player wants to go.

Keep the "legs" in the center of the screen and move the map in the opposite direction to which the player wants to move.

Part 2 will be the torso, weapon and head of the character. Parent this part to the legs. Animation of this part is determined by the position of the mouse pointer.

With the mouse pointer you will need to hide the default pointer and replace it with a suitable crosshair. 

In this post Macklebee describes the process.

  You will need to constrain the "mouse" so that it does not leave the screen.

Hope this helps and good luck.

[Choosing sound volumes]

Tough one this. There is no "standard" volume settings for sounds.

You can minimize volume differences by using sounds from the same source ( producer) but ultimately you will have to adjust the sound volumes individually.

Dialogue, music and sound effects will need their own levels, this may vary even in the same game. eg in game versus intro menu.

[Questions about Leadwerks and Ultra Engine]

You can load Leadwerk maps in the new Editor.

Not sure about whole projects thou.

[The Seventh World - WIP]

You can carry a lot of things on your shoulders 

[Shadows Problem.]

You could try this.

https://www.leadwerks.com/learn?page=API-Reference_Object_World_SetLightQuality

 

[Modular Building Pack]

This is  very old thread.

If you re looking for some free models have  look at the leadwerks Workshop on Steam.

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=251810&searchtext=&childpublishedfileid=0&browsesort=trend&section=readytouseitems&created_date_range_filter_start=0&created_date_range_filter_end=0&updated_date_range_filter_start=0&updated_date_range_filter_end=0

There are also scripts that maybe of use.

If you are looking for mapping standards there is this thread by Josh.

It includes basic models for windows, stairs and doors.

 

[DevLog Leadwerks Engine.]

Here is Josh's list of bottlenecks in Ledwerks. You my find it useful.

 

[New Editor Feedback]

The rotation gizmo is much better now.

Can we add scaling in the viewports. Transform and rotation work but not scale.

[New Editor Feedback]

Had a quick play with the new editor.

- The rotation gizmo obscures the object you are rotating. Can we make it smaller or transparent?

- I get a black viewport if I use  the resizing tools. and occasionally when I move the camera.

-The color value is not updated when a new object is selected. e.g if I start on a red box then select a blue box the color in the appearance tab is red.

- A brightness level less than 100 results in a black object. This might be caused by the lack of a light in the scene.

- Can we get keyboard shortcuts for scaling ("S") , transform ("T") and rotation ("R"). This saves moving the mouse from object to  button and back to object.

[Current 3rd Person tutorial (for Leadwerks 5)?]

You might like to check out Darkness awaits. Its a third person dungeon games with scripts and assets included.

 

[FPSWeapon fires to the bottom right of the crosshair]

This has been discussed before.

 

[Here is a little open courtains of my [Bleep]...)]

Me too. I thought it was spam.

[Code snippets catagory]

There is an option to edit in the documentation. 

Or where you after  more generalised code examples.

[Quake Tactics - WIP]

Now I understand what the outline  posts have been about.

Nice work.

[44+Gigs of free sfx!]

They have previous years sound effects collections here.

https://sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc

[Look what I found in a book bundle]

I purchased some ebooks  from Humble Bundle.

I was browsing thru the contents of each book.

Then I came across this gem.

 

 

The bundle can be found here.

 

 

[How to use Rck's saveload.lua?]

Rick explains his script in this post.

Aiaf also explains how to set up a Load/Save script in this post. It also has other links inside to other discussions about loading and saving.

 

[Camera Settings In Model Viewer]

And while we are at it could we have someway of setting the game camera to the editor cameras position.

[Ideas of Elite]

Try this.

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wtVSDh