[Development]

I agree with Guppy. The effect would be nice to be able to apply to our own planes so that we can make multiple water sources instead of just the 1 giant ocean. I mean creating a giant ocean sort of implies you want big outdoor scenes but that's not where LE excels in terms of performance and indie people being able to populate such a scene. So given the focus of LE pushes people towards smaller indoor scenes why wouldn't that be the focus for water?

[Development]

Are we talking water planes that we can place multiple in our map for ponds as well as oceans or just 1 big ocean plane like in LE 2?

[Lua Classes Module]

Well that's certainly a new way to do that .

 

I didn't know lua didn't require ()'s when calling functions and then returning a table and calling a function on that without needing ()'s is a pretty neat trick to make it look like a normal OO language.

 

Would be cool if you didn't have to pass the class name as a string but could as a variable that would be nil (obviously) but could some how get the sending variable name and use that.

 

While the underlying way of doing this is fairly messy and not as neat as the method Josh uses in some of this scripts, the usage is much closer to other OO languages so I love that.

 

Also, when you instantiate the class you shouldn't have to refer to it as a string right? Because you create a table from the string when you define the class so you can have a much more OO way by just using the table directly at that point like:

 

myInstance = new MyClass

 

 

With that I guess an alternative approach to using string class names when defining your class could be something like

 

class Person = {}

 

class NPC = {} : extends Person

[Selective file inclusion (continued)]

I think he meant:

 

A few people suggested a "tagging" system so the user can mark files to be included or not. This is a very bad idea.

 

He's probably expecting more business speak .

 

"I don't think a tagging system is the way to go for Leadwerks"

 

Nobody likes hearing their idea is a very bad one

[EVE LBS Studio]

First rule of video game developer for newbies. Start small and build on that. Good luck in your game development!

[Disappearance]

I wonder if LUA supports static types?

 

If you define a variable local but outside of any functions it'll only be visible to that file. You can then make functions in that file that manipulate that variable.

 

 

So to simulate C++ I generally make "classes" in Lua like Josh does with the AnimationManager.lua file. Then outside of all the function/class stuff I define the local variable and now it'll be accessible by all instances of that class inside that file but not outside just like static variables.

[Merry Christmas, and another beta update]

Merry Christmas

[Convex Decomposition Made Useful]

@nick This was actually a hot topic a few months ago and the workaround at the time was the CSG hints. This library was suggested then but I guess a new version is out now that's better than the last.

[Six Months in Seattle]

Looks like a cool hip place. Gotta love the tree stump stools

[Multi-threading woe's]

Any chance on getting a function call that returns how many entities are in the map without actually loading them? Just the number? This would allow people to make an accurate progress bar while loading if they put draw and update/flip code inside the map callback.

[Multi-threading woe's]

Wouldn't that be after the map is already loaded though? You'd need this count before you load the map to make an effective progress bar.

[Multi-threading woe's]

Would be nice if josh made a function to get entity count for a map.

[Multi-threading woe's]

Yeah, I think if you take the 2D drawing logic that's in App:Loop() and place it in the map loading hook you could get a moving image.

[Multi-threading woe's]

Aggror, if you can show a screen couldn't you show some sort of moving progress bar? I mean it would probably not be fluid but you should be able to get something moving on screen right?

[Multi-threading woe's]

So there should be a callback function to the map load function. I believe this will be called as entities are being loaded. If you put your drawing updating inside this where you draw to the screen (the stuff that's inside App::Loop()) then you should be able to have a loading screen that updates as your map is loading. It might not be the smoothest but it could be something.

 

I believe anything you do with LE entities needs to be on the same thread that LE was initialized on.

[Multi-threading woe's]

What are you trying to do with threading? Load stuff in real-time or do some sort of loading screen while the map loads?

[Initial VR Implementation]

Would it help if you stood up and simulated walking at all?

[Leadwerks 3.3 Beta now available on beta branch]

Nice on the encryption!

[Blog 2 - GUI and Item Placement]

Some csg painted with the invisible mat and made the parent to the brick model would give you better hit detection so it's not model perfect. I noticed you had to struggle a little to pick the brick model perfectly in order to bring up the hand. Same probably everything in your scene (noticed axe had same issue).

[Halloween Game Tournament II Kicks Off]

Woot! I'm excited for this!

[Workshop Remixes]

That's interesting in the example above. So all that's really stored in your workshop item is a link to his workshop item, and then the settings you changed? What if I added a particle effect of sparks as a child to his and make it a prefab. Does that work for me to make that a workshop item then and my workshop item would have all the information needed to reproduce the prefab from his item?

[Workshop Remixes]

I subscribed to the item, and used the model and sound to make my own Workshop item here

 

This isn't use and reuse, it's use and modify and redistribute. So what you just said is a little confusing to people. I assume it means we can modify certain LE settings but not the source files. We can use it in another prefab and distribute that new prefab, but not modify the source files right?

[New beta update available]

So how does this work them. I put the barrel model in the scene, made a csg as it's child, marked it as shape hint. If it gets set as the shape then I think you should copy the mass and collision type and all that stuff too. When I set the mass of the csg the barrel doesn't fall so I assume you aren't copying those values to the shape you make.

 

[Edit]

 

If I give the child csg mass it doesn't get deleted. It shows up at what seems to be the origin and starts falling. Thought it got deleted or is the whole mass or script section of the LE library preventing the deletion?

[New beta update available]

I know that's how you do it right now, but was thinking this would have acted as a way without the shader method, but since the csg gets removed that's fine.

[New beta update available]

This would have been neat if we could use it for volume triggers, but since the csg gets removed any script we attach I assume won't get ran.