[Ubuntu 14.04 Linux Bugs]

Ubuntu is a very popular linux distro.

Would be good to see these fixed.

[Ogg and other file format support?]

Keep in mind that Josh does often say "x wont happen" only to implement "x" a short time later.

 

He would be better off saying something along the lines of "x is not planned, however thank you for making the effort in providing this feedback, I will place x in the ideas bucket for consideration"

 

Bluntly rejecting community feedback will only lead to getting his financial supporters off-side and scare away potential buyers.

 

Embracing feedback and maintaining control of a project are not mutually exclusive, just requires some finesse.

 

Anyway, for better or worse, it is up to him how he runs things. I hope this feedback is received in the spirit it was intended.

[Ogg and other file format support?]

Adding support for playing oog sound files would be a valuable improvement to the Leadwerks engine.

[How to decrease deployment "data ZIP" folder?]

The only thing that was asked was that one could also get a chance to force the editor manually to include those files, which was implemented now by the option to not use the new selective inclusion

 

Glad to see Josh made the right decision despite earlier reservations. Good job and keep up the good work.

[Published game wont run]

I updated the player script now so it actually lists the files it is loading in the script. Should work now if you update the project.

 

Is the asset inclusion object and corrosponding methods exposed via the API?

[Published game wont run]

IM trying to make it easier for those users that arent expert coders

 

Even for those of us that are coders, having the GUI streamline workflows is important for productivity.

[Published game wont run]

We definitely will not implement a "tagging" system as described above. That process should be completely automated to be as simple as possible for the end user.

 

Automated behind the scenes tagging works, however automated stuff can often go rogue due to conflicts and/or bugs.

Would be nice to have the flag exposed via the API so it can be called on by advanced users if or when its needed.

 

Having the flag accessible is inline with the Leadwerks marketing material.

 

"At its heart, Leadwerks is a set of commands you can call in any order, at any time. We believe in giving the programmer direct control over the flow and execution of their application" - http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/programming?showbanner=0

[Published game wont run]

I would like to see the Engines GUI have a feature for flagging assets as either "include" or "ignore" so they're excluded when the game is built/exported as a binary.

 

Not sure if an opt-in or opt-out system would work best, but its wroth exploring.

 

This would make the flow of updating and further developing the game easier instead of having to delete and then re-import assets very time a build is performed.

[Examples don't work under Linux]

Edit:

 

Nevermind, OP got a refund for his purchase and no longer has a copy of Leadwerks

[Examples don't work under Linux]

Josh is the creator of the engine. I guess he put some absolute path there. Strange...

 

The absolute path is pretty embarrassing.

[How do we make a main menu?]

Built a basic HUD today by incorporating and expanding on the above code.

 

Example: https://github.com/abyssusj/Leadwerks/blob/master/Scripts/Objects/Player/example-player-hud.png

[[Linux] Drag & Drop works almost nowhere.]

Alternative workflows have been created to deal with this limitation.

 

This thread is ranking highly for this issue. So for myself and others who are likely to come here, can you please point us to what the Alternative workflows are?

 

Thanks!

 

Edit, found the alternative via trial/error.

 

The alternative workflow is as follows;

• Tools > Flowgraph Editor
  
• Focus Scene Tab
  
• Right click any object from the object tree
  
• Add to flowgraph
  
• Done!
  

Leadwerks feels a bit clunky in Linux, so hope Josh continues his collaboration with Canonical to improve on this because it would make the engines GUI a real pleasure to use.