[Shadow Banding]

I complained about this many times in our Workshops but yeah this looks disgusting. 

What's your lighting setting with this by the way?

[Advanced Project Manager]

One thing I was trying to do was zip up files by extension and use raw asset timestamps to check if any of the files are newer than the previously made packages. My application didn't work 100% but I think this was before ZipLib was introduced as part of the engine (?) I'm not sure, it's been a while since I tried to make my own tools.

[Advanced Project Manager]

I think this is really useful despite the UI being a bit overwhelming at first. Some bugs here and there but I see it's potential. 

Here are my suggestions/ideas:

1. I would remove Steamworks altogether. People probably aren't going to feel good about putting their Steam information into a 3rd party app. 
2. Your packager doesn't do what I expected. I expected it to at least act like the Leadwerks publisher by zipping the game content and pasting the package into a new folder along with the executable and the dlls. Also, using separate folders doesn't seem to work. 
3. If possible, I recommend you rebuild the application using the engine library. It has ZipLib included, and your application can be multiplatform. I'm taking you wrote this in C# or some other .NET framework. 

[Model Dark in Model Editor]

17 hours ago, Josh said:

However, I did also notice that the light in the asset editor world was being hidden all the time, so I am fixing that.

I've wondered why my models would magically go dark all of a sudden. Thanks.

[EVENT_STARTRENDERER no longer gets emitted.]

@Josh

This is broken again with the last update, please remove the solution tag.

[Window recreating causes Asset failed error]

I can confirm that my window resizing/rebuilding code works as expected. 

[Window recreating causes Asset failed error]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Is the reported issue solved now?

I'll get back to you.

[Window recreating causes Asset failed error]

Yeah, from my application, it seems that the active window isn't being reassigned. The text should be in the bottom corner of this window but it's in the position of the bottom right of my splash window.  

[Window recreating causes Asset failed error]

I'm also running into an issue with my window resizing code.

[3D interface issues]

I've encountered in my project issues regarding the interface class when used in 3D. 

1. This example looks broken.

2. My console is broken and I can no longer show/hide the camera projecting the UI.


Please refer to the codebase I sent you on February 17th to better debug this problem and more.
 

[EVENT_STARTRENDERER no longer gets emitted.]

This event no longer gets emitted when the renderer has started. I use this event to hide my splash window and then show the game window. 

Put a break on the Print call and you'll notice it'll not get triggered.

#include "UltraEngine.h"
using namespace UltraEngine;

int main(int argc, const char* argv[])
{
    //Get the displays
    auto displays = GetDisplays();

    //Create a window
    auto window = CreateWindow("Ultra Engine", 0, 0, 1280, 720, displays[0], WINDOW_CENTER | WINDOW_TITLEBAR);

    //Create a world
    auto world = CreateWorld();

    //Create a framebuffer
    auto framebuffer = CreateFramebuffer(window);

    //Create a camera
    auto camera = CreateCamera(world);
    camera->SetClearColor(0.125);

    //Main loop
    while (window->Closed() == false and window->KeyDown(KEY_ESCAPE) == false)
    {
        while (PeekEvent())
        {
            const auto e = WaitEvent();
            if (e.id == EVENT_STARTRENDERER)
            {
                Print("Renderer has started with code: " + String(e.data));
            }
        }

        world->Update();
        world->Render(framebuffer);
    }
    return 0;
}

 

[Loading non existent shader family]

Shaders families are now .fam files.

[Face Selection tool not working?]

Yeah, this keeps breaking. This is like the 3rd time now.

I'll test this on my end when I get the chance.

[Initiating a new Asset class]

Hello,

I am making some files that I wish to be treated as an asset, but I don't know how to properly initiate it as such. There is commented code in the Asset.h header but when I tried to intergrate that code into my CreateMyAsset() function, I couldn't cache the asset. 

I'd like an example of how I would Initiate a new asset. 

[Possible to ceate 2D game in Ultra ?]

You can, But why would you? 

Honestly, I think 2D games are best targeting the cheapest hardware you can find and making something cool with SDL2 or something. Ultra Engine is ment for high performance games and applications.

[Releasing Alpha on Steam?]

Pay the fee, get the appid. Having a repo on Steam allows for easy private testing and you can get started on integrating some Steamworks features. Some features like Leaderboards, Stats, and (surprisingly) Steam Input will not work until your Store page is live. I was in your position when it came to Cyclone but people encouraged me to put it on Steam because they want all their games on one place.  

Stay away from EGS, they are criminals, lol. 

[Convert Image To DDS]

This extension will convert a material to DDS. Right-click on an image file in the asset browser, select the "Convert Textures to DDS" menu item, and the file will be created with the correct compression based on the type.

 

ConvertImageToDDS.lua

[App is not responding sometimes after world:Update()]

2 minutes ago, Josh said:

It's not crashing. The main thread appears to be stuck in a loop maybe. Do you have a C++ program that produces this error?

I've noticed this issue too. Compiling the application not as a console application usually solves the issue.

[Adding a Material to a sprite doesn't do anything.]

I was actually using the drop down menu for material under appearance like you would in Leadwerks. I didn't know you could drag and drop the material to a sprite.

If you do use the dropdown, the material will not apply nor save it's selection. I think the solution would be to remove it and have only one way of assigning materials to objects by drag and drop.

[Adding a Material to a sprite doesn't do anything.]

The selected image also doesn't save after deselecting the entity.

[Animator Component]

Here's a lua version of this. Some minor differences and I removed the use of camelSense since the stock components don't use it. 

This was on my list so thanks for writing it! 

Animation.zip

[Getting Editor Material Suffixes]

I'm trying to create an extension that'll allow quick material generation by right clicking on the image and selecting "Convert Image to DDS". The documentation with String:Right for lua isn't right and I think it's better that the extention should get the suffixes from the editor's config. 

Because of limited documentation on the addon system, how would I do this?

The bad code is commented out for now.

    if event.id == EVENT_WIDGETACTION then
        if event.source == extension.menu[1] then
            if program.assetbrowser.selectedfile then
                if program.assetbrowser.selectedfile.package == nil then                    
                    local imageext = string.lower(ExtractExt(program.assetbrowser.selectedfile.path))                  
                    if imageext == "png" then
                        local file = StripAll(program.assetbrowser.selectedfile.path)
                        --[[
                        -- TODO: Get the conversion suffix from the editor.
                        if string.right(10, file) == "_normalmap" or string.right(7, file) == "_normal" or string.right(4, file) == "_dot3" or string.right(2, file) == "_n" then
                            extension.ToTexture(program.assetbrowser.selectedfile.path, ".dds", TEXTURE_BC5, true)
                        elseif string.right(13, file) == "_displacement" or string.right(7, file) == "_height" or string.right(5, file) == "_disp" or string.right(2, file) == "_h" then
                            extension.ToTexture(program.assetbrowser.selectedfile.path, ".dds", TEXTURE_RED, true)
                        else
                            extension.ToTexture(program.assetbrowser.selectedfile.path, ".dds", TEXTURE_BC7, true)
                        end
                        ]]
                    end
                end
            end
        end

 

[Rough materials still reflecting]

The fix came up during the hangout. Might get fixed in the future but for now:

Line 171 in PBR/Lighting.glsl.

u_MipCount = 6; //textureQueryLevels(textureCubeSampler[shadowMapID]);

 

[Pick Mode doesn't save upon saving/closing a model]

When changing a model's material pickmode value to false, the changes don't stick when reopening the model in the asset browser. 

[Brushes fail to create sometimes.]

I wish I knew.

I was just creating brushes and then it it stopped. I probably had a good amount of brushes in that session before it gave out on me. It was like when I lined up the brush exactly where I wanted it to build, it wouldn't make it. But if I quickly built the brush in a different spot, it worked as expected.