[The Hankinator's extended MonsterAI script]

This is great stuff, works like a charm.

[Can't load my level in the editor anymore!]

I have this problem again, as soon as I click the "New" button, I get that message, and if I try to load a level I get that message as well, if I load backup number 46 or before of that map it works, but anything from that point on(47 to 62) crashes the engine.

 

I could rebuild everything I did again, but it's like 5 hours of work, I don't really want to go back and do it all over again.

[Can't load my level in the editor anymore!]

I had the exact same problem , I dont fixed it but just making a new map. For me it was after i changed something with a pivot and flowgraphs.

Please fix things like that soon

 

+1

[Text showing up when interacting with entity.]

You say it uses self.GetText()... Shouldn't it be self:GetText() with a : not a .

 

I was right, it was obvious...that fixed the error popping up, but the text doesn't show up.

[Text showing up when interacting with entity.]

A day later, and I still haven't figured this one out, must be super obvious and I'm not seeing it.

[Text showing up when interacting with entity.]

A long time ago I had this problem with text overlapping itself when you used some entities in the game, then Rick (thanks by the way) came along and fixed this issue. This is the code right now:

 

Inside FPSPlayer.lua right below the default variables:

 

Script.DisplayTimeMax = 4000
local font1 = Font:Load("Fonts/MODERN SERIF ERODED.ttf", 20)

 

In the Start():

 

self.text = ""

 

Inside the UpdateWorld()

 

if pickInfo.entity ~= nil then
  if pickInfo.entity.script ~= nil then
  if pickInfo.entity.script.GetText ~= nil then
   self.text = pickInfo.entity.script:GetText()
   self.DisplayTime = Time:GetCurrent() + self.DisplayTimeMax
  end
 end
   end

 

Under PostRender(context)

 

if self.text ~= "" then
   context:SetBlendMode(Blend.Alpha)
   context:SetFont(font1)

   if self.DisplayTime > Time:GetCurrent() then
 context:SetColor(255,255,255)
 context:DrawText(self.text, 100, 600)
   else
 -- reset
 self.text = ""
   end
  end

 

This is all that was required (back in 2015) to set up the player script, then we had this simple code for the entities:

 

Script.ObjectDescription = "" --string "Object Description"
function Script:GetText()
return self.ObjectDescription
end
function Script:Disable()--in
self.enabled=false
end

 

Now the only problem here is that the hand icon doesn't actually show up, so the player can't interact with it, I tried doing a Use(context) function that called the self.GetText() but that just caused the game to exit out with an error saying:

Script Error
attempt to index local 'self' (a nil value)
Line 8

 

 

So any thoughts as to how I would resolve this issue?

[Can't load my level in the editor anymore!]

Have you tried the Steam option to verify the integrity of Leadwerks?

Wont fix the "New" button problem but have you tried opening any of the backups in the Backup directory? On windows it's in C:/Users/Username/Documents/Leadwerks/Backup directory.

 

Found the issue, and it's a pretty dumb one.

I had an "event" in that level where a monster went to a waypoint after a specific x amount of time, the thing is, I must have deleted that pivot by accident and that's what was causing the editor to crash.

I thought it was something a lot more serious and now I feel dumb.

GG.

[Can't load my level in the editor anymore!]

This is also happening when I click the "New" button to start creating a map.

Although nothing shows in the console.

[Can't load my level in the editor anymore!]

Alright, I was working on a level today, I made all my changes to it and was happy with the results, so I saved, and started working on another one. Then when I tried to load the level I was working on before I get this:

 

 

This is really bad because I've been working on that level for months now, I really can't allow it to just give up on me.

 

The red text on the console says:

Error: script connection target entity not found.

Error: script connection target entity not found.

 

Here's what I've done so far that hasn't fixed the issue:

-Re-launched Leadwerks.

-Made another project, copied over the files and tried to load the level there.

-Published a stand alone and tried it, whenever it starts to load that level it crashes.

-Opted in to the latest beta, tried to load it again, no dice.

 

In my understanding, this should give an error when you try to play the level, not load it in the editor.

 

Any thoughts on this?

[Ode to Alphadog]

Glad you liked it, thanks for the screen shots!

 

Anytime

[Ode to Alphadog]

Here are a few pictures of the game!

 

 

 

 

 

I enjoyed the game, it was simple and hilarious, love how they just send the dog out of a plane.

[Amnesia Notes]

it should work with any file as long as the .tex extension is included in the publishing dialogue.

 

Alright noted!

[Amnesia Notes]

mhh. thats odd. I am 99% sure i fixed that once. Seems that an old version is up on the steam workshop again. :/

 

sorry for the late response. Was and still am ill laying in the bed. :/

 

 

For the time being here is the current script. (the text.lua files need to look a bit different in this so the fix works. But there is an example text.lua file included)

 

https://cloud.software-sl.de/index.php/s/sHbt6kKfMT926zi

 

Will see to upload that version again to the steam workshop.

 

//Edit: doesnt let me upload to steam workshop again. :/ i start to hate steam...

One hack is to add a commented-out line in any script that has the file name in it:

--"myfile.mat"

 

Does this work with tex files? Like:

--"mytex.tex"

[Amnesia Notes]

So what is the best solution to this?

[Amnesia Notes]

I'm currently having the same problem, I can run the game fine in the editor.

But if I publish it stand alone or game launcher it won't launch, the only fix I found (for me at least) was to copy over the "Materials" folder to the published game directory.

[SnowWerks]

Consider yourself lucky, I have never seen snow in my life.

[Regarding entity movement]

The first one is tricky, but the second can be done fairly easily. I don't have access to Leadwerks right now, so I can't code anything that works, but I can try to explain it.

1. Get your local forward movement direction, including the y axis

2. Set y to 0

3. Normalizeyour movement vector

4. Multiply the vector by your movement speed

5. Apply the movement

 

If you don't understand what I'm trying to explain, just let me know and I'll whip up the code in about 8 or so hours.

 

Just tried to do this myself but I keep messing up somewhere, could you show us an example of something simple?

[Creating a set of rules that remain persistent for all maps/levels.]

Are you trying to save some settings so it will be the same the next time they start the game, or just do you just want it to save just for that 1 game?

I'm trying to save the settings even if the player exits the game.

[Creating a set of rules that remain persistent for all maps/levels.]

You would setup your GUI to allow the user to change the values, whether it is using simple textboxes or fancy sliders.

You would then save a config file using File System.

 

The first part is basically taken care of, but my problem is, I've never messed around with anything to do with files, so I don't even know where to start.

[Working with decals]

Oh I see, well I would like to know how to fix this as well.

[Working with decals]

How did you manage to get the decal on a single "face"? Whenever I create a decal I have it on all the cube's faces which is annoying and not really what I want.

 

[Creating a set of rules that remain persistent for all maps/levels.]

Alright so let me explain myself a bit here, you know how in games you have those options that define how much gamma there is and whatnot? I was wondering how to do that and how to keep it persistent through all the levels the user has created.

 

An example of this would be to manipulate say the Bloom shader, by having an option to toggle it on or off an keep it saved.

I'm not asking anyone to code anything for me, but instead to guide me in the right direction.

[Leadwerks Extended Executable Template]

Here are a few things I noticed while trying to publish a demo using Lex.

 

1) The standalone version has a problem with the "Materials" folder inside the data.zip, trying to launch the game without having the "Materials" folder from leadwerks in the game's directory makes it crash on start up.

 

2) Something is off with the loading of the maps, in the editor I could load a map just fine but if the game is published as soon as the "Changemap" script is called the game crashed without any warnings.

 

3) A published game doesn't run without the "ClientScheme" file, this is to be expect but the problem is, Leadwerks doesn't export that file when you publish a game.

 

4) In a published game, the loading screen doesn't change from the default, even if you changed it in the "Main.lua" script.

 

Hopefully I've been of some help

[Failed to read map file.]

Looks like the filepath might be missing the Maps/ bit.

 

Yea, that was exactly the problem, thanks.

[Failed to read map file.]

I was working on an update for the demo of "A Demon's Game", I got reepblue's LEX integrated and started using his ChangeLevel script that came with the template to change the level in the game's demo.

However, everytime I tried to change the map, it just gives me an error on the console.

Failed to read file "C:/Users/Ruben/Documents/Leadwerks/Projects/ADemonsGame/Sewers_2.map".

 

If I try to use the script that comes with leadwerks, this error pops up.

 

"C:/Users/Ruben/Documents/Leadwerks/Projects/ADemonsGame/scripts/objects/triggers/triggerchangemap.lua" : 10 : attempt to call method 'changeMap' (a nil value)

 

This only started happening recently, so I really don't know what could be causing it.

 

I have attached all 3 scripts that were used.

 

Main.lua

 

ChangeMap.lua

 

CollisionTrigger.lua