[Linux, You Changed Man]

Gonna be real. Once Ultra Engine/App Kit goes Linux, I'll probably be using Linux as my main OS. I already converted my software suite to Free/Open Source Software.

I also perfer Mint these days as the cinnamon desktop is very close to Modern Windows and doesn't force everything to download as snap.

[Ultra App Kit Released]

Congrats. I'll be sure to leave a review when I am able to.

[Welcome to ultraengine.com]

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The Marketplace "games" category is for uploading your playable game or demo, or even selling it.

 

Ok, great. This is what I wanted to have to be sure about.

[Welcome to ultraengine.com]

I'm taking the the Games section will be apart of the marketplace then.

[Welcome to ultraengine.com]

I never had success with social media. I always saw it as evil, and here we are. I had a Twitter but stopped using it in early 2018. 

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In addition to uploading free games, you can now sell your games in the Marketplace. I have plans to attract a lot of new traffic to the site in 2021, so maybe your games can get more sales at the same time. The same 70/30 split we use for Marketplace assets applies to games.

 

Fantastic. I think that's great being Leadwerks/Ultra users are always willing to check other's projects out and support them. Maybe you can get @Ghost's Concealment on there as the first paid Game.  I may consider releasing my project on this store first rather than itch.io. 

BTW, I couldn't find an easy way to get to the game's section from the menu.

[Final Thoughts on Ultra App Kit]

When is the public release date so we can party? 

[Last Call for API Modifications]

Wasn't Stream::EOF() replaced with Stream::Ended()? Although EOF is faster to type, it conflicts with macros in some cases. 

[Last Call for API Modifications]

I'll go through it again tonight. One thing I didn't like was that the beta had dependencies relating to VR and such included. I'm not sure if the actual project actually uses them.

Also, you're keeping the "UltraEngine" namespace for the Ultra App Kit?

[Ultra Engine Player Input Features]

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Raw mouse input measures the actual movement of the mouse device, and has nothing to do with a cursor on the screen. Windows provides an interface to capture the raw mouse input so your game can use mouse movement with greater precision than the screen pixels. The code to implement this is rather complicated, but in the end it just boils down to one simple command expose to the end user:

This is a good step into turning the mouse look into an axis which can be set via an action binding system. You can also make a multiplier value for sensitivity. Thanks.

Also, hopefully you got hold of an XInput device since the initial implementation of controller support.

[Creating a Stable Foundation - 5 Years In The Making!]

I'm thinking about reviving my project for Leadwerks. It's probably gonna be another year before the new engine is done, plus I have to relearn a lot of things. Maybe make it as long as Portal: The First Slice and not go back over board with visual effects.

[Leadwerks 5 Beta Update Available with Faster Raytracing]

Very cool. I'll be sure to give this a go. I assume the limitations of the last build still apply but it's just much faster.

[Fast Voxel Raytracing with Vulkan]

Only thing that caught my eye was the shadow acme. Other than that, looks really slick.

[Fast Voxel Raytracing with Vulkan]

So far so good. My only question is how could we make things like the viewmodels show up in reflections?

[Terrain Building API in Leadwerks 5 Beta]

Can we manipulate the terrain in real time? If so, that reminds me of a feature of the Source engine that was removed sometime after HL2: Episode 1.

Not sure how efficient it would be though.

[Organizing the New Engine]

The small footprint is one of the many reasons why I really like Leadwerks. 

Really happy to see you still going forward with this approach, while making it more flexible. 

[Package Plugins and Mods]

I'll look more into that, thanks. I used 7zip for years, but never touched the command line.

[Package Plugins and Mods]

2 minutes ago, gamecreator said:

I know it's not the same thing but since Leadwerks supports multiple custom password-protected zips (which I appreciate maybe even more that Steam and analytics support), you can make each zip only a few hundred megs or however small you want.

I know, I plan on doing this for my project when the time comes. However, I'd need to create a way to do this automatically. Closest I got was I compiled an app that makes zip files, but I couldn't get password encryption to work. If you know of a good command line app for zip files, let me know.

[Package Plugins and Mods]

VPKs allow for splicing packages. Your 8GB game can be cut into chunks. This allows for smaller updates down the road. This can be done using the -M parameter. 

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VPK

This isn't perfect, but much better than the current Leadwerks packaging system.

[Package Plugins and Mods]

Source Engine models have a lot of information in them so I don't know how easy/hard it would be.

But also, this means we can use vpks to store our game data?

[Beginning with Particles]

Yeah. We can always write the particle script once and attach the script to a particle entity. I could do a wrapper function like LoadParticle(<scriptpath>) and have it return an emitter.

Still suggesting a visual editor in the future. Doesn't have to be in the 1.0 release, but it would be a lot more efficient in work flow. ?

[Beginning with Particles]

Would it be possible for emitters to be created via an editor and then have it's values saved to a json/binary file?

The particle editor in Leadwerks was really weak and pretty much had you had to code each effect to get most out of the system.

[Leadwerks and Premake]

It seems that the input code isn't working how I want it right now. I'll fix it later.

[GUI Resolution Independence 2]

Yeah, it seems the only new/harder part is creating a Sprite layer for the window I/O passing a window pointer to a GUI object. Everything so far seems comprehendible. 

[GUI Resolution Independence]

I see your really focused on the GUI now. I'm taking that as you want to get started with the new editor; which I will not stop you. ?

[Custom Shapes for MDLs in Leadwerks 4]

2 minutes ago, gamecreator said:

It seems to do something similar but gives different results than the options in the model editor.  I'm a little confused.  ?

That seems to be a legacy feature before the model viewer could generate shapes. Don't use that.