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    Button to launch

    in Programming

    Posted

    ..im convinced after initial 'issues' with Bmax, you will luv it so much :) , especially after blending it with Blide, real pro coding environment..soon its going to be available for Eclipse, and thats a real beauty ;).. at least thats happen to me ;)

    Why OpenGL?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    ..well..i will not comment is it me or not, since i know few more fellas here, who's silently working on their stuff, but as for me, game im working on right now, is going to be on PC with LE for sure, and after that PS3 (usually goes opposite, but this is first title of crew of mine, so its reasonable way to go)..whatever case may be, any game fired out will help a lot to community and Josh (financially/advertising wise), and i do encouraging everyone to do and finish games since it will be actual and real boost for entire LE society here..as for me, Ill do my best in both Game presentation and some things after game is out, but that last part is between me and Josh..

    Why OpenGL?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    A small market share is one valid reason.

     

    well..as i said previously, its about 35 million machines available and able to run LE system..sure, those numbers are not that great if you are EA who has consumption larger than some countries yearly budgets..but none of us here is like EA and for small studios up to 25-30 folks, thats quite nice market with not much competition in area..i do believe its worth to go there..

    Why OpenGL?

    in General Discussion

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    ..in my understanding of topic discussed here, option to use OGL as an API for LE is a very good choice..also, having experience with PS3 development system, I can say with confidence that native way for LE to grow is to spread on to PS3/4 console system..its naturally connected trough same API(OGL) and rendering system LE performing is just fine on PS3...also by learning entire Phyre API, i couldnt miss huge similarity with LE and class structure (both are deferred renderers)..also, financially, LE will spread way more easy on to PS3 than any other console(5 times cheaper than Wii and Xbox360), while at same time, completely same features list LE has on PC, will remain on PS3..Mac, even smaller market than PC(windows), still representing about 35 million units able to run LE just fine(if not better) than PC(win) with same GPU..also, having in mind that Mac users are actually folks who buy things for their machines, I cant see any valid reason why not spread on to Mac..just my 2 cents.. :)

    Button to launch

    in Programming

    Posted

    yes..

     

    System_ ("MyExternalExe.Exe")

     

    or better use this..first type in

     

    Extern "Win32"
Function WinExec (lpCmdLine:Byte Ptr, nCmdShow:Int)
End Extern

     

    and then just do this

    WinExec("MyExternalExe.exe",10)

     

    and thats it..or if you need cross platform compatibility, you can do this

    openurl("MyExternalExe.exe")

    Drivers issue

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    ..issue was on my side. Upon changing many shaders, somehow i have had old shader on place where suppose to be one i have changed/updated..so, my deepest apologize to everyone who use to be guided in wrong direction by this post of mine...i just have so many shaders/stuff floating around on dev machine so i lost track for a second..anyway, its all working now...my apologize again :)

    Oh No, I Broke Josh's Waterplane!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    ..sure..here it is..

    'Create water mesh and prepare
		If Not waterpatch
			SetWorld transparency.world
			'waterpatch = CreatePatch(20, 20)
			waterpatch = LoadMesh("abstract::patch.gmf")
			EntityOcclusionMode(waterpatch, True)
			SetWorld Main.world
		EndIf
		waterpatch.SetColor(watercolor)
		waterpatch.paint(watermaterial[submerged])

		'waterpatch.SetPositionf(Main.camera.mat.tx,waterheight,Main.camera.mat.tz,1)
		waterpatch.SetPositionf(1, waterheight, 1, 1)

     

    and of course, after every changes, I did compile module to make changes work..but so far nothing..here is the patch example i use..so give it a go..im really wondering is it something maybe wrong with my gmf.

     

    waterpatch mesh:--> http://www.mediafire.com/?o1mgzkkrwbc

    Oh No, I Broke Josh's Waterplane!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    ..still white..super weird...i did try this before but i had same result..white..but i had other things to do so i never tested again until now, when i saw that Red changed it and its working..however..in my case still doesnt work..everything is at proper position, it just, water plane is white..hmm..

    Oh No, I Broke Josh's Waterplane!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    what you mean at origin? Mesh covering exact area i need to cover and i did exactly what he did(according to code i saw), but waterpatch surface(custom one) is white and i see it..its just..no reflection and stuff I got with usual one(createpatch)..just wondering what can go wrong or is there any other way to treat mesh waterpatch..

    Drivers issue

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    ..ok..tested just now 196.21 drivers on other machines, and bloom fragment shaders doesnt compile on all machines..

     

    7600GT doesnt work, WinXp Pro

    8600GT doesnt work, WinXP Pro

    8800GT doesnt work, WinXP Pro

    GTS250 doesnt work, WinXP Pro 64 bit

    9600 GT doesnt work, Vista

     

    so, only bloom fragment shader is affected as i can see..everything works fine on older drivers...sigh..

    Drivers issue

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    ..i have just upgraded newest drivers (196.21) on my test rig 7600GT and bloom fragment shader cant compile, while its all working just fine on 8600, 8800gt and higher. However, everything works just fine on 7600GT with older drivers..any of you guys have similar problems? Im wondering because i really want my game run on 7600GT as a low end(so far it was very very good until now), and im not happy with this drivers issue..

    Best performance!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    ..in my game where some quite complex scenery arise at some points(30+ characters doing some stuff simultaneously, dialogues, lipsync, AI, etc)..i figured out that speed difference between Bmax and C++ practically 'doesnt' exist (it does exist but its so so so minor that FPS is absolutely unnoticable)..and it was not worth to sacrifice, clean look and simplicity of code in bmax for exchange with less than 0.2 msec speed difference i have gained with C++ .. so, in my book, I highly recommend Bmax..

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