Carve

November 9, 2012

I have some hosting ideas for distribution;

1) Torrents

2) FTP type connection (similar to how Leadwerks SDK installs, with a key system)

3) Buy a cheap but reliable seeder box - coincides with #1.

4) I have some webhosting through the company I work for, can provide at-least 1 mirror, possibly 2.

November 1, 2012

I only trust sites like CNet, even though download managers are annoying as hell and sometimes are bundled with spyware, usually you can tick the "Advanced Options" and un-check them.

October 2, 2012

Here's my quick attempt;

Edit; Attemp2 w/ original font;

October 2, 2012

well i got it off my home machine

how try to get it working on the latest version of le

nice having spare time when on hoilday lol

if i do get this working i will give back so people can enjoy

-Carl

would you please upload it so that I and everyone else could see?

May 18, 2011

Nice work Josh, I'm anxiously anticipating your bmax to c\c++ translations and the new additions!

May 18, 2011

Just as implied in the topic title, will it be possible to pre-order for a certain percentage off for previous Leadwerks 2 developers?

September 17, 2010

I have quite a few Vegetation models (trees, grass, bushes, rocks, etc) first question is:

How do I add the basic lua script that will allow the basic dialog for snapping to terrain, material, etc?

Second question is:

How do I add things to the Vegetation Painting? Like how there is a Tree and Grass, how would I do so for my models?

September 17, 2010

Yes the tutorial reads the player from the map as far as I remember (don't rely on me for this ) but I found that you should use the info_playerstart model (or better .lua) which is inside the archive attached to the tutorial, before I had some issues with the one downloaded from the download section of this site (don't remember exactly what).

Thanks ZioRed!

I totally overlooked the custom playerstart! That was my problem all along heh

September 17, 2010

It really sounds like you don't have a model for the player in Editor, or it doesn't have a mass.

But since your description is so vague, I think you need to post a minimized demo to show the problem.

What portion of the "Power Tutorial" adds a model for the player? Afaik it's using the info_playerstart?

September 17, 2010

Yes, but what exactly does not work? Is it not moving, is it not compiling, or what? Make sure you have a body mass for your player also.

Why are you creating the player, if it's already in the sbx file?

You should need only one SetCurrentPlayer().

The Power Tutorial should work.

It is not moving, like at all.. I can move the mouse and zoom in/out just fine. When trying to set the "pistol" to the player it crashes, so for now that is disabled.

I've removed the player creation, and removed the secondary SetCurrentPlayer portion. Still behaving the same way, no movement, except for the camera/mouse.

September 17, 2010

It should work, I haven't noticed any problems with it. What exactly does not work?

pre-main loop:

	mPlayer.Create();
mGame.scene.SetCurrentPlayer("info_playerstart");
mGame.scene.SetCurrentPlayer("player1");

main loop:

		mGame.MouseLook(mGame.scene.cam);
	mGame.KeyboardMove("player1");
	mGame.PositionPlayerModel("player1");
	mGame.PositionCamera();

all this works , except the KeyboardMove("player1");

September 17, 2010

I can't seem to get the game.KeyboardMove(); to work with gamelib (latest w/ mods to work with LW2.4).

Anyone else able to get this working?

Thanks

September 15, 2010

Figured it out!

Problem was with the Engine calls, not doing engine.Create prior to the rendering!

and a few other small things like MouseMove etc.

Thanks Lumooja!

September 15, 2010

Somehow you managed to upload all the files which you don't need to upload and forgot the files which you should upload, like the exe, sln, suo, vcproj, cpp. The exe alone would be enough, since then I can see if it works for me.

DOH! Forgot the exe indeed, sorry about that!

Attached now.

FPS-Debug.exe

September 15, 2010

Editor doesn't use engine.dll, although it uses the same engine code. Maybe you should post a demo of your problem.

Here ya go, I didn't use anything but what came with LW SDK (2.4.0).

- Put the FPS.zip contents in your Leadwerks SDK root folder (you have the .dll's i'm sure, so dont write over!)

I attached the testMap as well - it needs to go in /Maps

Thanks again Lumooja

testMap.zip

September 15, 2010

Update your graphics card drivers.

Updating my graphics drivers, only about a month old anyway..

But why would it work in the Editor and not the Application? Do they not both use engine.dll?

September 14, 2010

The Scripts folder needs only to be in the current working dir, the dlls need to be in the exe dir or in the path, shaders.pak and other asset folders needs to be in the abstract path.

That's how it is setup, and I still get none of the Terrain loading, this is quite strange..

I'm using 2.4, would that matter?

September 14, 2010

Does any folder besides the Scripts folder (and the dll's / paks (shaders) obviously) need to be in the application.exe's ROOT folder as well?

Like Models / Materials, should they be copied over as well, or shouldn't the abstract path to c:/leadwerks take care of that?

September 14, 2010

well at least try changing the positon ...
PositionEntity(mCamera, Vec3(-3, Y, -18));
make Y larger than 2, say 50 ... you can pan the camera I take it?

Yes, I can pan the camera.

Tried that, here's a pic:

http://d3-studios.com/carve/testMap_inApplication2.png

*spoiler* SAME problem */spoiler*

September 14, 2010

You don't need mScene, as it's already part of mGame. And you don't need mBuffer either.

I dropped those already, and cleaned the code up more. I removed mBuffer and mScene.

also I removed the DrawText for FPS, and it removes the overlay for FPS (You referred to it as another render) - So now it shows the FPS and Tris correctly.

Still the same issue though.. the terrain and everything is black, this is never ending!

September 14, 2010

Your picture of the "in editor" view shows your player start ... the blue icon? if thats it then why is your in app picture showing what it does? are you sure your controller is being placed at the player start position? it does not look like it and given the view of the in app shot are you sure your controlloer is not below the terrain? are you still using the same code as posted or have you changed it?

I have the code for the PlayerStart portion, but I am using hardcoded variables for the time being

The FPS display in the screenshot says that you are using Framework also. So you are rendering the scene twice, and your own rendering fails because Framework has already rendered it.

Could you explain further?

New Code (now using Gamelib)

#include <Main.h>

int main()
{
   if (!Initialize())
       return 1;

   mGame.Initialize(1024, 768, 0, 0, 0);
   mScene.Initialize();

   SetAppTitle("FPS v0.0.1 - using gamelib v" gamelibver);
   RegisterAbstractPath("C:/Leadwerks");

   mBuffer = CreateBuffer(GraphicsWidth(),GraphicsHeight(),BUFFER_COLOR|BUFFER_DEPTH|BUFFER_NORMAL);

   // Setup Cameras
   if (mCamera != NULL)
   {
       mCamera = mGame.scene.cam;
   }
   else
   {
       mCamera = CreateCamera();
   }

   PositionEntity(mCamera, Vec3(-3, 2, -18));

//    mMiniMapCam = CreateCamera();

   // Load Sandbox Scene
   mScene.LoadMap("abstract::testMap.sbx");
   AppLog("Loaded scene..");

   // Setup the mouse
   HideMouse();
   MoveMouse(GraphicsWidth()/2, GraphicsHeight()/2);

   //mMiniMap.CreateMinimap(128); // Create the Minimap

   // ** Game loop ***********************************************
   while( !KeyHit() && !AppTerminate() )
   {
       if( !AppSuspended() ) // We are not in focus!
       {
           mGame.scene.Update(); // Update

           mGame.scene.Render(); // Render

           // Rendering of the 2D stuff
           mGame.DrawCrosshair(GraphicsWidth() / 2, GraphicsHeight() / 2);
           DrawText(0, 0, "FPS : %.3f", UPS());
           DrawText(0,15, "Tris: %d", TrisRendered());

           // Render Minimap
           //mMiniMap.Update(mMiniMapCam); // Update the Minimap

           // Send to screen
           Flip(0);
       }
   }

   // Done
   return Terminate();
}

September 14, 2010

Do you have all the terrain textures in your project?

Yes in the Abstract Path they are located, same paths as the Editor uses are used by the Application.

Do I need to copy more then the Scripts folder to the Application.exe Root?

September 14, 2010

Would Screen shots be more helpful for you guys?

Here's in the Editor:

http://d3-studios.com/carve/testMap_inEditor.png

Here's in the Application itself:

http://d3-studios.com/carve/testMap_inApplication.png

September 13, 2010

Instead of hardcoding the player position in your code, you should find a player entity from the map and position your player there.

Basically FindChild(scene,"playerstart"); is enough.

I've tried what you suggested, added a playerstart to the scene, and then use the position of it.

The test scene I made now loads, but I can only see the Firepit, no textures for the ground and if i attempt to move I fall.

Why would the ground be black?

September 13, 2010

I can load the demo scene "tunnels" just fine, but when trying to load any of the other scenes it seems to just stay black?

I have tried using different camera + player positions, and everything, the only one that I can get working is the tunnels.sbx

I renamed this to testScene.sbx and it still works fine, creating a new scene, then adding a 128x128 or w/e size terrain, painting the terrain, adding a camera, and light.. then saving the scene as testSceneTwo.sbx ..

There is nothing in the logs to suggest anything went wrong, and it acts as if it's loaded everything correctly.

Code below:

#include <Main.h>

int WINAPI WinMain( HINSTANCE hInstance,
			   HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
			   LPSTR lpCmdLine,
			   int nShowCmd ) 
{
Initialize() ;
RegisterAbstractPath("C:/Leadwerks");
SetAppTitle( "Test FPS" );
Graphics( 1024, 768 );
AFilter();
TFilter();

mWorld = CreateWorld();
if (!mWorld) {
	MessageBoxA(0,"Error","Failed to create mWorld.",0);
	return Terminate();
}

mBuffer = CreateBuffer(GraphicsWidth(),GraphicsHeight(),BUFFER_COLOR|BUFFER_DEPTH|BUFFER_NORMAL);

// Setup Cameras
mCamera = CreateCamera();
PositionEntity(mCamera, Vec3(-3, 2, -18));

Collisions(1,2,true);

//	mMiniMapCam = CreateCamera();

// Load Sandbox Scene
mScene = LoadScene("abstract::testScene.sbx");
MessageBoxA(0,"Loaded scene..","",0);
ProcessScene(mScene);

// Setup the spectator (player)
mPlayer = CreateController(1.8,0.4,0.5,45.01);
EntityType(mPlayer, 1);
SetBodyMass(mPlayer, 1);
PositionEntity(mPlayer, Vec3(-3, 2, -18));

float move=0.0;
float strafe=0.0;
TVec3 camrotation=Vec3(0);
float mx=0;
float my=0;

// Setup the mouse
HideMouse();
MoveMouse(GraphicsWidth()/2, GraphicsHeight()/2);

//	mMiniMap.CreateMinimap(128); // Create the Minimap

// ** Game loop ***********************************************
while( !KeyHit() && !AppTerminate() )
{
	if( !AppSuspended() ) // We are not in focus!
	{
		// camera looking
		mx = Curve(MouseX()-GraphicsWidth()/2, mx,6);
		my = Curve(MouseY()-GraphicsHeight()/2, my,6);
		MoveMouse(GraphicsWidth()/2, GraphicsHeight()/2);		
		camrotation.X = camrotation.X+my/10.0;
		camrotation.Y = camrotation.Y-mx/10.0;
		RotateEntity(mCamera, camrotation);

		// player movement
		move=(KeyDown(KEY_W)-KeyDown(KEY_S))*2.0;
		strafe=(KeyDown(KEY_D)-KeyDown(KEY_A))*2.0;

		// player jump
		float jump=0.0;
		if (KeyHit(KEY_SPACE)) {
			if (!ControllerAirborne(mPlayer)) {
				jump=4.0;
			}
		}

		// player run
		if (KeyDown(KEY_LSHIFT)||KeyDown(KEY_RSHIFT)) {
			if (!ControllerAirborne(mPlayer)) {
				move*=2.0;
				strafe*=2.0;
			}
		}

		// Set controller input
		UpdateController(mPlayer, camrotation.Y, move, strafe, jump);

		// Update timing and mWorld
		UpdateAppTime();
		UpdateWorld(AppSpeed()) ;

		// Position the camera
		TVec3 playerpos = EntityPosition(mPlayer);
		TVec3 camerapos = EntityPosition(mCamera);
		camerapos.Y = Curve(playerpos.Y+1.75*0.5, camerapos.Y,2.0);
		camerapos = Vec3(playerpos.X, camerapos.Y, playerpos.Z);
		PositionEntity(mCamera, camerapos);

		// Render Main
		SetBuffer(mBuffer);
		RenderWorld();

		// Render lightning
		SetBuffer(BackBuffer());
		RenderLights(mBuffer);

		// Render Minimap
		//mMiniMap.Update(mMiniMapCam); // Update the Minimap

		// Send to screen
		Flip(0) ;
	}
}

// Done
return Terminate() ;
}

Thanks ahead of time!

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