[Request models here]

Vehicle physics are not supported in LE3, so it would be useless.

We have a lot more control in Leadwerks 3 with motorized joints than we did in Leadwerks 2, which had problems with vehicles rolling away unintentionally; we can just use a motorized joint now to control the behavior precisely. All that's needed is a linear spring joint for suspension and vehicles will work.

[Seeking character artists]

Definitely some good ones to choose from there, thanks.

[Steam Client Bootstrapper Crash]

Valve has been emailed about this. I apologize for the inconvenience.

[is this a shadow normal behavior?]

This is going to be an odd explanation, but this is actually the correct behavior:

 

Brushes that have a script attached to them remain as brushes and don't get collapsed into model geometry. Brushes are not just simple polygons, they have volumetric properties that we intend to use in the future. However, simply rotating a brush does not update its geometric information, so the plane equations that define the faces don't get updated, and the shadow render pass misses some faces. This is actually the reason that tutorial uses a model instead. The brush class itself is not part of the official API because of complexities like this. A case can be made for documenting and exposing some of the brush API, but this technically is not a bug.

[For those who work in a team!]

Dropbox is also an easy to use alternative, and now has simple version control.

[skybox]

It should just work, unless your camera is created in code. Otherwise, use the Camera::SetSkybox command.

[CPP - LUA interactions]

This is kind of an advanced topic, but this is the tool Leadwerks uses to expose its API to Lua:

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/files/file/216-tolua/

 

People have retrieved specific objects in the map by naming them a certain name and using a hook in the Map::Load function.

[black screen]

I'm in the middle of updating it. Sorry, didn't think anyone would run the updater before I said anything...

[Script Error using Random scripts]

Press the "More Reply Options" button below to enter the full message composer. You can attach images to your post there.

[Steam LE3 screen category]

Screenshots and videos have to have a certain rating to go out on social media.

 

The screenshots strip and gallery are meant to show the most recent shots, not necessarily the best. It's not really up to us to decide what should be shown, as there are many people with various levels of expertise. I'm not terribly concerned with the quality of each screenshot; I just want to see a constant flow of activity.

 

And while we are at it please do a real scale of the images instead of having us load 5 full resolution images to then view as thumbnails - the site is bad enough on a cell phone with out that.

That I actually can do.

[Linux version on Steam ?]

We are having trouble initializing the Steam library on Linux. Valve is looking at it.

[Saving objects outside the editor]

It's not supported. Although VMF files now can be exported. A general-purpose export plugin system will be implemented later on, for exporting maps from the editor.

["Wobbly" FBX Imports]

Brad, you might want to update that to export "Leadwerks Model File (*.mdl)" since GMF is not used anymore.

[Exception_Access_Violation]

If you can reliably produce this error please provide the files I need to make it occur on my machine.

[No collision parent-Child on jointBall]

Jointed entities do not collide with the other entity in the joint, for performance. Normally this is done by setting the joint constraints, when it is needed. The ball and socket joint has a maximum cone radius which can be set.

[Preparing for the Workshop]

We've got a lot of new assets for the Workshop, and need help getting them ready for Leadwerks. They need to be imported, checked, and we need collision meshes added to them. In order to make the process go faster, I am splitting the work into teams headed by Aggror and Shadmar. Each of them will have their own team of helpers they will manage.

 

If you'd like to volunteer to help either of them, please post a reply in this thread, or send them a message. The slowest step will be adding collision meshes to complex models, but this really should be done for optimum performance.

 

Thanks for your help!

[Lua AddHook for an Object]

In your object script there should be a PostRender function

 

 

function Script:PostRender(context)

App.context:SetBlendMode(Blend.Alpha)
App.context:SetColor(0,1,0,1.0)
App.context:DrawText("Value: "..self.val, 100, 100)
App.context:SetBlendMode(Blend.Solid)

end

Keep in mind that App.context might not exist, if the script is running in a C++ program. So it's best to just use the function argument context.

[Lightmaps back ,Global illumination,Image based shaders ?]

BRDFs is the non-marketing term, and they are a very old technique.

[Why is SteamAPI always initialized?]

You do not need to initialize Steam, but there might be something else going on there the DLL does automatically. The reason for this is we don't want to double the number of build we have to provide for Steam and non-Steam versions, as it would slow down every release.

[LeadwerksDemo seems not working]

The header files and libraries are not included with the demo, but you can try the command set out with Lua. The C++ projects are just shown there so you can see how they work. I'll add a note on the download page.

[Error in store]

The server is experience problems. This is being investigated.

[Directional Light shining through terrain]

Well it's working as intended. Since triangles are one-sided there's nothing below the terrain to block light. I'm guessing this is to make a day/night cycle, in which case the best thing to do is gradually dim the light as it approaches the horizon.

[Upgrading from 12.04 LTS to 14.04]

The Leadwerks installer/updater has been updated with a new install script for Ubuntu 14.04. Thank you for pointing that out.

[Soften Mipmaps]

The soften filter can be used to decrease repetitiveness of a texture at a distance. It blends the texture into the average color of all the pixels, as it gets further away. It's probably not that useful anymore.

[Problem with displacement layer for alphamask.shader]

JPEG files and textures with DXT1 compression do not store alpha channels. A TGA image using DXT5 compression should work.