Kazar

I'm rather new to C-programming and I have mostly some php background. I'm struggling with variables inside functions. I have a function that, among other things, controls the banking of an airplane that is turning. Here's the short version of it: void HowToFly (TMesh airplane) { double blend; double frame,frameend,framebegin; TVec3 altitude = EntityPosition(airplane, 0); TVec3 meshrotation, meshrotation_old; // Turning animation meshrotation = EntityRotation (airplane,1); if ((meshrotation.Y > (meshrotation_old.Y+AppSpeed()*1.0)) && altitude.Y > 0.5) { // no banking when near the ground framebegin=80.0; // turning to left keyframes frameend=81.0; blend=blend+(AppSpeed()*0.05); } else if (((meshrotation.Y+AppSpeed()*1.0) < meshrotation_old.Y) && altitude.Y > 0.5) { // no banking when near the ground framebegin=60.0; // turning to right keyframes frameend=61.0; blend=blend+(AppSpeed()*0.05); } else { blend=blend-(AppSpeed()*0.025); } // level flight frame=AppTime()/10.0; frame=fmodf(frame,1.0-0.0)+0.0; Animate(airplane,frame,1.0,0,true); // blended animation frame=AppTime()/10.0; frame=fmodf(frame,frameend-framebegin)+framebegin; Animate(airplane,frame,blend,0,true); blend=max(blend,0.0); blend=min(blend,1.0); meshrotation_old = meshrotation; } Of course this worked as part of the main program with blend,frame,frameend,framebegin, etc. - variables initialized before the mainloop. I had to make a function out of it to control multiple plane's animation and this breaks it because all my variables are reset at the start of each loop. I have ran out of all ideas to make it work (except global variables but that really isn't good solution for tens of planes, I think) and I could really use a nudge in to the right direction. Oh, and sorry for the blatant crudeness of my code

Wait, what?

Oh ****, I replaced a broken graphics card for a client's computer at work and installed the newest (overheating) drivers.

My project is only week old right now so I've already remade all my normal maps

Might be slightly off-topic here but I tested today my pre-pre-pre-alpha of a game on a friend's computer and his Norton anti-virus said my exe "was suspicious" and decided to quarantine it. I uploaded the file on a website that checks files with around 40 different scanners and not one of them (inluding norton) found anything.

While it may be so I think this should be mentioned somewhere in the wiki.

Does this mean I need to invert the Y every time I make normal maps for LE? (in photoshop with Nvidia plugin in my case) Edit: I did some tests and yeah.. seems like I've got to redo all my normal maps I didn't spot this fact anywhere in the wiki.

Does LE 2.28 include Framework? I'm getting 2.3 as soon as Josh processes my order.

I saw the thread about the improved SSAO filter and decided to test out the old filter with the code (and assets) from the Post Processing tutorial. Alas, I ran into some errors so I edited the source a bit, like replacing exitapp with the method from 2.28 ProjectWizard and added RegisterAbstractPath to my SDK folder. What it all comes down to is this error: Unhandled exception at 0x00ccc9e8 in PostProcessing_test-Debug.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000068. The app hangs at BindTexture -> CXX0030: Error: expression cannot be evaluated. Here is the source: #include "engine.h" int main(int argc, char** argv) { Initialize(); RegisterAbstractPath("D:/Leadwerks"); //Create a graphics context Graphics(800,600); //Create a world TWorld world=CreateWorld(); if (!world) { MessageBoxA(0,"Error","Failed to create world.",0); return Terminate(); } //Create a camera TCamera cam=CreateCamera(); MoveEntity(cam,Vec3(0,5,-5)); CameraClearMode(cam,BUFFER_DEPTH); //Create a render buffer for lighting TBuffer gbuffer=CreateBuffer(800,600,BUFFER_COLOR|BUFFER_DEPTH|BUFFER_NORMAL); //Create a render buffer for post-processing effects TBuffer postbuffer=CreateBuffer(800,600,BUFFER_COLOR); //Create a directional light TLight light=CreateDirectionalLight(); RotateEntity(light,Vec3(45,45,0)); LoadScene("Scenes/scene.sbx"); //Create a skybox TWorld background=CreateWorld(); TMesh skybox=CreateCube(); TCamera skycam=CreateCamera(); FlipMesh(skybox); PaintEntity(skybox,LoadMaterial("abstract::skybox.mat")); SetWorld(world); TShader postfilter=LoadShader("abstract::postfilter.vert","abstract::postfilter_ssao.frag"); SetShaderVec2(postfilter,"camerarange",Vec2(0.1,1000)); TTexture noisetexture=LoadTexture("abstract::noise.bmp"); AmbientLight(Vec3(0.5)); EntityColor(light,Vec4(0.15)); TVec3 camrotation=Vec3(0); float mx=0; float my=0; HideMouse(); MoveMouse(GraphicsWidth()/2,GraphicsHeight()/2); //Main loop while(!KeyHit(KEY_ESCAPE)) { //Camera look 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(cam,camrotation); UpdateAppTime(); UpdateWorld(); SetBuffer(gbuffer); //Render the background RotateEntity(skycam,EntityRotation(cam)); SetWorld(background); RenderWorld(); //Render the world SetWorld(world); RenderWorld(); //Render lighting SetBuffer(postbuffer); RenderLights(gbuffer); //Draw image onscreen with postfilter applied SetBuffer(BackBuffer()); SetShader(postfilter); BindTexture(GetDepthBuffer(gbuffer),1); BindTexture(noisetexture,10); DrawImage(GetColorBuffer(postbuffer),0,GraphicsHeight(),GraphicsWidth(),-GraphicsHeight()); Flip(); } return Terminate(); }

Heh. Icons from World of Warcraft. Looks great though better than anything I could do right now.