[getting the mouse depth?]

Hmm, I actually have no idea, I don't use Lua often. Should ask Mack. I'll point him here.

[getting the mouse depth?]

CameraProject

[Destructible objects?]

I think it would be incredibly performance hogging (slicing multiple CSG at a single time after multiple impacts and applying material to the sides of each chunk), for hardly any benefit or with even reasonable looking results, on CSG only environment assets. All of that together sounds like a waste of time. But, Josh will do what he wants.

[Destructible objects?]

That's also to say that majority of games made with LE3 would be made mostly of CSG. I would imagine only a certain amount of props would be made with CSG (Source engine comes to mind and their games) but majority of the props/environment would be mesh. In that case, my kitchen cabinets would go to pieces on impact, but not my decorative vase, lol.

[End of America!!!!]

We always have an "economic crisis" during/after long-term war. And sadly there is profit from war.

[Leadwerks faster in BlitzMax than C++]

You'll have to understand, that the first argument will be that it's because BMax made the DLL, or that the engine is made with BMax. This topic WILL lead to a dead end.

[End of America!!!!]

Just going to websites like that is asking for spyware, lol.

[Manually adding L3DT Maps with Lua?]

They used C++/LEO to manually do it. You can do this with the editor. Create the terrain and click "Edit." Import the height, normal, etc..

[Conversation with NVidia]

I'm curious how your vegetation differs from other libraries like SpeedTree/SpeedGrass. I haven't played around with the latest vegetation system in LE, so I should probably do that before asking, but this thread looked like you were interested in talking about the techniques involved in your vegetation system.

[Destructible objects?]

You control the slices, what is sliced, how it's sliced, what is ignored, etc..

 

Looks fairly accurate enough to me as broken concrete or tile.

 

Usually meant for static meshes but I've got this working with dynamic meshes as well. I don't think players will care that much that something isn't breaking 100% realistic, it simply adds overall appreciation/game-play value of a more interactive environment.

[Destructible objects?]

APEX Destruction

 

Authoring functionality is provided via PhysXLab, a standalone GUI authoring tool. Using PhysXLab, users can take artist-provided meshes, split them into broken fragments and export generated Destructible assets in standart APEX asset (.apx and .apb) file formats. Exported asset will include hierarchy of fractured meshes, collision information and physical material parameters, and support information for each chunk as well.

[Destructible objects?]

At the moment you'd have to do it all yourself. Replacing an intact mesh with a mesh in fractured pieces upon the intact meshes "death."

[Importing user made script]

I've attached the Regex module, just in case you want to try it out. I also played a bit with your idea:

 

myscript.scr

StartAI()
MovePlayerToPlayer()
MovePlayerToPlayer(Player1, Player2)

Start()
End()
Terminate(1)

 

script.bmx

SuperStrict

Import bah.regex
Import brl.standardio

Local file:TStream = ReadFile(AppDir+"/myscript.scr")
Local regex:tregex = tregex.Create("(.*)\((.*)\)")


While Not Eof(file)
Local match:tregexmatch = regex.find(Trim(ReadLine(file)))
	If match
		Select Lower(match.subexp(1))
			Case "startai"
				StartAI()
			Case "moveplayertoplayer"
				Local vars:String[]
					If match.subexp(2) <> ""
						vars = match.subexp(2).split(", ")
						MovePlayerToPlayer(vars[0], vars[1])
					Else
						MovePlayerToPlayer()
					EndIf
			Default
					If match.subexp(2) = ""
						Print "No Match: "+match.subexp(1)
					Else
						Print "No Match: "+match.subexp(1)+"("+match.subexp(2)+")"
					EndIf
		EndSelect
	EndIf
Wend

CloseStream(file)

Function StartAI()
Print "Do something with AI"
EndFunction

Function MovePlayerToPlayer(p1:String = "", p2:String = "")
	If p1 <> "" Or p2 <> ""
		Print "move "+p1+" to "+p2
	Else
		Print "Do something with player move with no arguments."
	EndIf
EndFunction

 

This will output:

Do something with AI

Do something with player move with no arguments.

move Player1 to Player2

No Match: Start

No Match: End

No Match: Terminate(1)

 

Actually having fun with this on this rainy day. Anyways, figured I'd just throw all of that out there.

bah.regex.rar

[Importing user made script]

An interesting concept, Cole. I've thought about something similar but every time I do I end up trying to create a new language, which gets complex, and never finished, lol. My only input is to keep it simple and that you should do a better search than just "Start," maybe "Start()." There is also a module (Bah.Regex) you can use for regular expressions.

[..some random level shot..]

It's hard to judge the scene with this effect because it could very well match the game-play style. I think it looks great. As a still screen, it's easier to pick out little flaws with the shader here and there, but while actually in the game and playing, you wouldn't notice most of them. I'm thinking NA is using this style to give a certain feel to the player through environment with it's planned game-play, and in that case, this shader may be spot on.

 

I look forward to seeing some videos, NA, if at all planned. Would be great to learn more about this project.

[Own IP]

Thanks Cole, that's exactly what I was looking for! Don't remember what I was trying before but HostIp() kept returning 127.0.0.1 and then I decided to post this thread, lol.

[..some random level shot..]

Impressive work, NA. Looks excellent. Can't wait to see more screens.

[Own IP]

Going to use your method, Mack, since then I can easily check if I'm online or not. This is for a tool so I don't mind the address opening though I'm probably going to change it to connect to my own server address.

 

Thanks, Mack.

[Own IP]

Thanks for the help guys.

[Own IP]

With only using BlitzMax, is there a way to get your own IP address? All that I've tried it just gives me the default localhost address.

 

Thanks.

[Language performance :]

With dead I mean that BRL is focussing fully on Monkey development, and not developing BlitzMax much further, perhaps some bug fixes and small feature additions only. It's being phased out.

Sounds like LE2, lol.

[Low FPS]

That's basically what I said here:

 

You're also calling UpdateAppTime() which I believe Framework already does in it's update function. Careful of draw calls too, the amount of meshes in the map, and keep digging.

 

Hopefully it will resolve most of your FPS issues.

[Low FPS]

Compared it's slower, since the framework creates/manages worlds, cameras, buffers, and manages post-process. Just creating a camera and world is nothing compared. Not sure anymore what post processes are on by default in framework.

[Low FPS]

77 is your real FPS.

[Low FPS]

You're also calling UpdateAppTime() which I believe Framework already does in it's update function. Careful of draw calls too, the amount of meshes in the map, and keep digging.