[Resolution Question]

If you are using Autoscale, the THUI will scale whatever resolution you are set to. Anchor and Absolute will not (at this time anyway).

[flashing light]

Have you tried SetIntensity()? That's what the flicker script uses, worked for me.

 

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/api-reference/_/entity/entitysetintensity-r163

[The Hankinator's UI library]

Sorry, posted the backup script by accident.This is the real one that I have been using (The Example one).

Is that whole thing in your Main.lua? If so, you've got the pause screen script combined with the Main.lua script. The second portion (starting with the second "import" line to the end) should go in it's own script and be assigned to a pivot in your level.

[The Hankinator's UI library]

Here it is

This Main.lua does not have the changes required for the UI system to work. The Main.lua in Addons/THUI/Examples should have all the changes you need, Copy it your Scripts directory.

[Calculation of text scaled down to fit inside a rectangle (postrender)]

I've been thinking about this for my UI library. It's an awkward problem that I've not found a perfect solution for but this might work for your use case.The following function will determine a font height so that it will fit in a box defined by w and h. It will start with the font at max size, if the text goes beyond the defined width, it will reduce the font size to fit.

 

It loads a font every time you call it so I would call it only when text changes.

 

function FontFit(fontpath, text, w, h)
local font = Font:Load(fontpath, h)

textwidth = font:GetTextWidth(text)
font:Release()
if textwidth > w then
 return h * (w / textwidth)
else
 return h
end
end

 

An example of loading a font that will fit some_text that will fit in an area of 100x30

local FontHeight = FontFit("Fonts/arial.ttf", some_text, 100, 30)
local font = Font:Load("Fonts/arial.ttf", FontHeight)

[assert in Lua doesn't handle colon character?]

The below code:

assert(false, "Why:Does this happen?")

Gives the following result:

"C:/Users/User/Documents/Leadwerks/Projects/MyGame/Addons/THUI/Core.lua" : 80 : Why

If I simply don't use a colon it prints the whole string. What's the deal with the colon character? I don't see anything in PIL for this behavior https://www.lua.org/pil/8.3.html

[The Hankinator's UI library]

I'm just not sure where I am going wrong, I have tried to replace the normal main.lua with the example one. I also have tried following the instructions on this page in an attempt to try and make a simple GUI Menu. When I press the esc key, nothing happens. Any help?

 

Would you post the code for your menu? I'll take a look.

[" self a nil value " in pushbutton script ?]

self is nil? Is it possible that the code calling this function uses a a dot instead of a colon?

 

Blah.GetPosPiv() vs Blah:GetPosPiv()

[How can I make this look better]

Your textures have details that clash with your geometry. You should use either neutral textures on those beams or have some interplay between your level geometry and textures. See Dexsoft's texture packs for examples of this:

 

Or my own design, using a combination of CSG and some detail props. Notice that my design still flows from the textures:

This might be a dumb question but how do you determine if a texture clashes with the geometry?

[AMD MSAA 1x bug]

Can anyone who experienced this bug previously please download the latest Win10 driver and tell me if this demo still displays an error:

http://community.amd.com/amd.zip

 

If so, please tell me your exact graphics card.

Link to amd.zip is dead, I still have it from before, got it from http://leadwerks.com/amd.zip. Anyway, still broken. Details below:

 

[Exception access violation when trying to update workshop item]

Tried to push an update to my UI library tonight, editor crashes every time. I'm on beta.

 

[SetInput doesn't make entity face requested angle]

this seems to work ok - at least better than what the code above is showing for the player angle which for some reason is never close to the set angle:

angle = 0 --defined before main loop

...

...

p_rot = player:GetRotation(true)

if window:KeyHit(Key.Right) then angle = 270 end

if window:KeyHit(Key.Left) then angle = 90 end

finalangle = Math:CurveAngle(angle, p_rot.y, 1.05)--setting division parameter to 1 or lower results in weird angles

player:SetInput(finalangle, 0, 0, 0, false, 1, 0.5, false, 0.0)

 

Other than that, I could only suggest you stick with a rigid body physics player and move/rotate using SetPosition/SetRotation.

 

I noticed my example used -90 and yours used 270 so I tried mine with 90/270 but still no luck.

 

If I understand the update to SetInput correctly, I shouldn't need to play games with interpolating the angle to get the rotation to work. According to the updated reference for SetInput, setting maxrotationspeed to 0 should result in an instantaneous change to the requested angle. I might be misunderstanding the documentation but I think that my script should work.

 

I'd love to use rigid body physics with SetRotation but then I'd have to implement my own pathing algorithm which seems like a lot of added work and complication when all that functionality already exists in LE it's just this one part that doesn't work and I think should.

[SetInput doesn't make entity face requested angle]

Any ideas?

[The Hankinator's UI library]

I probably should make the documentation more clear. The example Main should not be on a pivot, it would replace Main.lua in your scripts directory.

[Map::Load Hook doesn't get called]

@hank that would be for Lua not C++ like he's using.

That's what I get for not reading the post, my mistake.

[Map::Load Hook doesn't get called]

I think it is the name of the function as a string.

[Trouble importing FBX2MDL]

Have you verified that the animated shaders are being used on the materials?

[Check if player in enemy field of view]

A little way down here I talked about field of view: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/12805-basic-sneaking-tutorial/

[SetInput doesn't make entity face requested angle]

I am having trouble getting the instantaneous change working. I've updated my original script (below) to set the new flags. Unfortunately I am not getting the instantaneous change I was expecting. I used default for everything except maxrotationspeed, I set it to 0. I also tried setting maxrotationspeed to 360 as well as detailed to true but that didn't help either. Did I misunderstand how to use this change? I am opt into beta.

 

--Create a window
window = Window:Create()
context = Context:Create(window)

world = World:Create()
local camera = Camera:Create()
camera:SetRotation(35,0,0)
camera:Move(0,0,-8)

local light = DirectionalLight:Create()
light:SetRotation(35,35,0)

--Enable navmesh debugging
camera:SetDebugNavigationMode(true)

--Create the ground
local ground = Model:Box(10,1,10)
ground:SetPosition(0,-0.5,0)
ground:SetColor(0.0,0.25,0.0)

--Create a shape
local shape = Shape:Box(0,0,0, 0,0,0, 10,1,10)
ground:SetShape(shape)
shape:Release()

--Enable navigation obstacles
ground:SetNavigationMode(true)

--Create a character
player = Pivot:Create()
local visiblecapsule = Model:Cone(16, player)
visiblecapsule:SetScale(1,2,1)
visiblecapsule:SetPosition(0,1,0)
visiblecapsule:SetRotation(90, 0 ,0)
player:SetPosition(0,0,0)
player:SetMass(1)
player:SetPhysicsMode(Entity.CharacterPhysics)

while not window:KeyHit(Key.Escape) do
   if window:Closed() then return false end

   Time:Update()

   if window:KeyHit(Key.Right) then
       player:SetInput(-90, 0, 0, 0, false, 1, 0.5, false, 0)
   end

   if window:KeyHit(Key.Left) then
       player:SetInput(90, 0, 0, 0, false, 1, 0.5, false, 0)
   end

   if window:KeyHit(Key.P) then
       System:Print(player:GetRotation(true).y)
   end

   world:Update()
   world:Render()
   context:Sync()
end

[Problems with Cos/Sin/Tan]

Also there is the same thing in Lua itself:

math.cos(angle)

Be careful, the LE function takes degrees where as the built in lua function takes radians(since 4.0).

[SetInput doesn't make entity face requested angle]

See docs update. Engine update will come tomorrow:

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/api-reference/_/entity/entitysetinput-r706

Looks awesome, I think the other options you added will also be useful also. Thanks!

[SetInput doesn't make entity face requested angle]

Okay, I am adding an extra parameter so you can specify the max rotation speed.

Josh for president!

[Leadwerks Coverting FBX File?]

Only reason I downloaded it was to see what the big deal was lol

[SetInput doesn't make entity face requested angle]

Why would you want to? Presently, it is hard-coded into the engine so that it will move at most 5 degrees per update.

I'm working on an action RPG something similar to Diablo style. When I click on the screen I want my character to immediately turn to the direction of the click and fire.

[SetInput doesn't make entity face requested angle]

You know it's going to gradually turn in the right direction, right? It won't instantly face that direction.

How could I make a character controller instantly face a direction?