[Rotating A Model Via Vertexes]

why does it have to be at the vertex level? Just rotating the model rotates the vertices so to the observer its the same thing.

[Shadows Terrain??]

Terrain shadows have not been an option since LE2.5. At some point, I suspect the option will return. Until then, camouflage it with shadows on the vegetation.

[strange shadow]

 

[Get Terrain height]

how are you getting the terrain? It should work if you are properly accessing the terrain. Granted, the GetHeight() does not appear to provide any information anymore, but GetElevation() appears to work just fine.

window = Window:Create("terrain example",0,0,800,600)
context = Context:Create(window)
world = World:Create()
camera = Camera:Create()
camera:SetPosition(0,60,0)
camera:SetRotation(0,45,0)
camera:SetMultisampleMode(8)
pickinfo = PickInfo()
Map:Load("Maps/terrain.map")
for i=0,world:CountEntities()-1 do
	if world:GetEntity(i):GetClass()==Object.TerrainClass then
		terrain=world:GetEntity(i)
		tolua.cast(terrain,"Terrain")
		break
	end
end

camrot = camera:GetRotation()
gx=Math:Round(context:GetWidth()/2)
gy=Math:Round(context:GetHeight()/2)
move = 0
strafe = 0

while window:KeyDown(Key.Escape)==false do
	if window:Closed() then break end
	mouseposition = window:GetMousePosition()
	dx = mouseposition.x - gx
	dy = mouseposition.y - gy
	camrot.x = camrot.x + dy / 10.0
	camrot.y = camrot.y + dx / 10.0
	camera:SetRotation(camrot)
	window:SetMousePosition(gx,gy)
	move = Math:Curve(((window:KeyDown(Key.W)and 1 or 0) - (window:KeyDown(Key.S) and 1 or 0)),move,10)
	strafe = Math:Curve(((window:KeyDown(Key.D)and 1 or 0) - (window:KeyDown(Key.A) and 1 or 0)),strafe,10)
	camera:Move(strafe,0,move)
	
	p = window:GetMousePosition()
	if window:MouseDown(1) then
		pick = camera:Pick(p.x,p.y,pickinfo,9,true)
	end
	
	Time:Update()
	world:Update()
	world:Render()
 
	
	if pick then
		context:SetBlendMode(Blend.Alpha)
		context:DrawText("Height: "..terrain:GetHeight(pickinfo.position.x, pickinfo.position.y), 2, 2)
		context:DrawText("Elevation: "..terrain:GetElevation(pickinfo.position.x, pickinfo.position.z), 2, 22)
		context:SetBlendMode(Blend.Solid)
	end
	context:Sync()
end

 

[strange shadow]

Look at any and all vegetation materials. More than likely you are missing the appropriate shadow shaders.

 

[Message error load engine.]

good question - i had a 9800 gt back when we had LE2.2... 

[Message error load engine.]

14 minutes ago, Josh said:

What did you have before?

 

[Issue rendering text]

Hard to tell exactly if the same issue since no code was provided but it may be an antialiasing issue - if so, not quite sure why Josh has not reverted this back yet. Just set your font's style to Font.Smooth when loading.

https://www.leadwerks.com/learn?page=API-Reference_Object_Asset_Font_Load

[Editor source code window]

Try the same action as shown in the above link. The hidden code area could be on the right, left, or bottom.

[Lua External Modules (MQTT)]

6 hours ago, Rick said:

I think josh removed require() ability which almost all external modules use. 

require() works just fine as long as lua is not sandboxed. Uncheck this option in the editor's Tools>Options...>General tab.

[Someone has been able to have player go underwater?]

2 hours ago, Crazycarpet said:

 I'm not sure what the terms of licensing would be...

1% of the first sale of your game then double it for each sale afterwards, eye of newt, pickled frog legs, 1 bowl of M&M's with all the green ones removed, six geese a laying, your first great grandchild's new puppy after a day of them bonding with it, and the steering wheel to a tata nano,

[Display health as text]

Understand. I always refer to these sites when I want to double check anything lua:

http://pgl.yoyo.org/luai/i/_

http://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html

http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaDirectory

[Display health as text]

3 minutes ago, Angelwolf said:

It's psuedo, sorry, should have mentioned. I re-wrote the entire post and managed to omit that part!

ok - and you also managed to omit what exactly the problem is... in your non-psuedo code, what exactly is it not doing? It would help if we knew that or saw the actual code.

Edit - ok see that the else/if/else if statements were the problem

[Display health as text]

is this psuedo-code? or are you asking why it is not working?

if health>=1 and health <25 then 
	hudText = "Critical" 
elseif health>=25 and health<50 then 
	hudtext = "Caution" 
elseif health>=50 and health<75 then 
	hudText = "Injured" 
elseif health>=75 then 
	hudText = "Fine"
end

 

[Having performance problems with 4.4]

The only crash i get is when I melee the boxes. But I can see if i let this run for awhile there will be issues as the script memory is just constantly rising even when not doing anything. My guess that the issues are somewhere inside the 3 separate player entities with their own scripts you have sitting ontop of  each other?

[.fbx animations not showing up]

Quote

For animation in Leadwerks to work you require bones. Keyframe animation won't work.

are the trigger and magazine bones or just other sub meshes in the model?

 

hmmm - if you post the model, i think uu3d can convert it properly to something LE can use. But other than that you would need to place bones in the model and set the keyframes based on their PRS.

[On-screen text messages]

You have to manage your fonts just like any asset.

window = Window:Create("font example",0,0,400,300)
context = Context:Create(window)
world = World:Create()
camera = Camera:Create()
light = DirectionalLight:Create()
light:SetRotation(45,45,0)
box = Model:Box()
box:SetPosition(0,0,3)
box:SetColor(1,0,0,1)
	
lilfont = context:GetFont()
medfont = Font:Load("Fonts/arial.ttf", 24, Font.Smooth)
bigfont = Font:Load("Fonts/arial.ttf", 48, Font.Smooth)

while window:KeyDown(Key.Escape)==false do
	if window:Closed() then break end

	box:Turn(Time:GetSpeed()*0.5,Time:GetSpeed()*0.5,0)
	
	Time:Update()
	world:Update()
	world:Render()
	context:SetBlendMode(Blend.Alpha)
	context:DrawText(string.format("FPS: %.2f",Time:UPS()),0,10)
	context:SetFont(bigfont)
	context:DrawText("BIG FONT",0,30)
	context:SetFont(medfont)
	context:DrawText("MEDIUM FONT",0,80)
	context:SetFont(lilfont)
	context:SetBlendMode(Blend.Solid)
	context:Sync(true)
end

 

[4.4 - Aliased text context:DrawText]

Agree that the default style should be turned back to Font.Smooth. In the meantime while waiting for this to be changed back, just set the style to smooth when you load your font.

https://www.leadwerks.com/docs?page=API-Reference_Object_Asset_Font_Load

[Newton vs Bullet demo]

Canardian/megatron/mika/cant-remember-previous-name was well known for making "strong statements" about everything that typically resembled what people nowadays call "alternative facts". So don't take anything posted by him to heart.

[Character Controller not working]

You don't need to create a camera at all when you are using the player with the fpsplayer.lua script. That script creates a camera. Just delete the default camera.

[Entity::GoToPoint returns False]

2 hours ago, martyj said:

The Entity has a Physics Mode of Rigid Body,

Why would this return false?

 

The entity must have character physics mode to use the navigation commands.

[Character Controller not working]

Have you followed the steps described in the tutorial? 

https://www.leadwerks.com/docs?page=Tutorials_Games_First-Person-Shooter_Character-Controllers

Does the character have mass, does it have the fps script attached, etc?

[Terrain vegetation option to align to terrain surface...]

Set the groundrocks shader as the vegetation shader in your model's material file.

[Renaming A Model Renames Everything]

That only happens when you have the base model and all of its children selected. Just click the parent / base model in the Scene tab. A quick way to tell if you have more than just the object / asset selected will be if the Name property value is '<different>' instead of the object / asset's name.

[Terrain vegetation option to align to terrain surface...]

Its already been implemented via shader.