[vcruntime140.dll missing]

Thanks for the follow-up! This information should be pinned.

[3D Isometric Game]

Other than locking the camera on certain angles (I cannot test right now, but I think it's -45degrees on 0x and 0y), it's just like any other game. You should start with the tutorials: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/tutorials/

[Tank models rotation issues]

Could you upload the model so we can test and see?

[A cave of models or dirt?]

As far as I know, caves are not possible with the terrain. As a solution, I create the terrain in blender and use particles modifier to place trees and rocks.

[Just bought leadwerks, am I missing any assets?]

Read the tutorials from the start to finish. You download those objects from the tutorial.

 

for the "models and animation" tutorial, search for this paragraph

"To get started with this tutorial, download the zip file below and extract its contents to your desktop:"

below this line you can find a link ( http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=8177 ), from which you download the files

[.map to blender]

Oh, we can do that from the editor! Now I feel a bit embarrassed & thanks a lot for the help!

[.map to blender]

That would be great, but I can't find a way to do that. Can you tell me which method did you use (I can't find Terrain::Export or anything similar), or give an example? (c++ preferably)

Thanks for the reply!

[.map to blender]

Any idea if it's possible to export the terrain (or the whole map) to Blender? Basically, I want to create rivers and lakes, which is faster than using LWeditor when you have different elevation levels. Any idea is welcome.

[copy an image/texture rectangle command?]

I don't think there is a way to do this with Leadwerks api, but perhaps you can try http://www.imagemagick.org/api/Image++.php .

[swordfight prob [c++]]

For such a game, to have smooth melee you clearly need the torso, arms and head to move separately from legs, just like in Mount & Blade. Having played M&B however, I fail to understand why do you mind that the attack animation carries on when you turn - it happens in their game as well. Maybe a video would help us understand the issue better... ?

[Caracter Animation 3 questions]

You should do the tutorials: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/tutorials/

 

I don't use lua or the editor much, so I can't help you with that, but for animations you have an example here (and I am pretty sure that sample games have educational scripts on that as well):

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/api-reference/_/entity/entityloadanimation-r15

[Akeytsu]

It looks interesting indeed - thanks for sharing!

I see that you can also buy a non-commercial license with all the features pretty cheap (15euro), which makes me wonder if it's possible to use that and upgrade to indie license when you decide to sell your software.

[Model->Release Crashes]

Well, the Release() method works just fine for me, so I guess the problem is elsewhere.

Before you call the destructor, do you see the item in game? If you're not sure it does, the problem might be the attempt to Hide() an empty model. The error happens when you try to call the destructor or when you exit the map? If it happens when you exit the map, maybe you call delete world before the destructor of ItemEntity.

 

PS: I have no idea what Asset::Unmanaged is.

[Code completion / intellisense-like behavior]

Somehow code completion doesn't work for Leadwerks in Code::Blocks. Any idea how to solve this?

 

PS: I have symbol browser enabled.

 

PPS: Solved

Adding $(LeadwerksPath)/Include on additional parser search paths did not work for me, but oddly enough it worked when I copied the entire include folder into my project and added it.

If anyone else has this problem, this is what I did:

go to the Leadwerks folder, copy the Include folder and paste it in your project's folder

right click on your project -> properties -> c / c++ parser options -> add -> ../Include/

(or whatever name / path you chose)

 

PS: If you don't know where the Leadwerks folder is located: open Steam -> right click on Leadwerks -> Properties -> Local files -> Browse local files

[Targeting hardware]

I would say that people usually buy new videocards every 3-5 years and not every generation.

 

take a look here: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

I would say that gtx 560 + phenom ii x4 as minimum sys req is reasonable.

[Some noob questions..]

setposition

setrotation

move

turn

addtorque

addforce

 

Those and other functions here: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/api-reference/_/entity/

[Where is the skybox setting in terrain example?]

in editor: click on scene -> root -> skybox

 

in c++: Leadwerks::World::SetSkybox(string path); or something like that, I am not at PC.

[Regarding item attachments to models]

Let say that you want to equip your characters with weapons: load the model, set hand bone as it's parent and voila!

But what about clothing and armours? They are not stiff and I cannot find a solution to deal with them when loading an animation. I've tried quite a few things, with different degrees of success. The best looking one so far is breaking them into multiple parts and attaching each part to it's corresponding bone, but the result is not what I expected. Any ideas on this one?

[3rd Party FPS Model Backwards]

what about physics -> character angle ?

 

http://i.imgur.com/b1JY8yv.png

[newbie question : water ... how to ?]

scene -> root -> water mode -> true

http://i.imgur.com/Jt2l14h.png

 

for c++

World::SetWaterMode(bool);

World::SetWaterHeight(float);

World::SetWaterColor(float r, float g, float v, float alpha);

[Structure Building]

read here: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/tutorials/_/textures-r6#section3.4

 

I believe that you actually want to texture a "complex" 3d object, which is pretty hard with Leadwerks. You need to do that in blender (or some other 3rd party software)

[How to check if any key is down in Lua]

If you use cpp: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646299(v=vs.85).aspx

 

Otherwise, I don't really have a solution for your question, but this is an idea: you can have a global var that gets incremented (by +1, or relative to time) on each frame, but you reset it to 0 whenever a key assigned to an action is pressed. When this global var is bigger than a set value, the "free looking camera" function is triggered.

 

I haven't used much LUA, so I will write in pseudo-code:

 

//let's suppose that you want to trigger the auto camera if the player didn't touch any key in 5000 frames

freeCameraTrigger = 0

 

//in your gameMain function:

if (freeCameraTrigger < 5000)

freeCameraTrigger = freeCameraTrigger + 1

else

MoveCameraFreely()

end

 

if (KeyDown(Key::Alt))

<actions>

freeCameraTrigger = 0

end

 

if (KeyDown(Key::W))

<actions>

freeCameraTrigger = 0

end

 

<rest of the code>

[Camera look around object]

It's been a while since I studied this, but that's how I remember it is:

x += R * sin(T) * cos(F)

y += R * sin(T) * sin(F)

z += R * cos(T)

T is on 0y rotation, F is on 0z rotation.

 

PS: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Sphere.html

[Is there a Scan Code function?]

It seems that I totally misunderstood what you wanted in the first place (a generic scan, not only to add your specific special keys). Glad to see that you solved it.

[Is there a Scan Code function?]

As far as I know, no, but you can fix this if you know the code of the key you want to use. Let's suppose that you are looking for key 1 (/exclamation mark, above Q), which would have the key code 49. Well, you can either use this value when you call the function

for example: window->KeyHit(49);

or open the external dependencies filter, go to Key.h and add it in the class

static const int KeyOne = 49;

...

window->KeyHit(Key::KeyOne);

 

//it would actually be advised to write your own Key class in case you want to share the code

 

I think that the issues with Alt key in windowed mode are related to the fact that it triggers the cascade menu.