[3DWS Transparency Problem]

You need to put the parts of the model which are transparent in the foreground world.

[Raknet Bitstream Problems]

UDP is faster. TCP is unusable for games.

And this is based on self-verified long distance tests?

[Raknet Bitstream Problems]

I always thought tcp was slower because it has to handshake?

That's what I thought too, because everyone keeps saying that UDP is faster. But when I tested it, TCP was much faster. I think it's because TCP opens a stream and has permanent connection, while UDP must reconnect and find the route over hundreds of servers each time a tiny packet is sent, which takes time.

[Raknet Bitstream Problems]

I tested with winsock that TCP is generally faster than UDP over long distances. I think RakNet supports also TCP, or you can just use winsock, it's cross-platform has all the things built-in for reliable and fast networking. RakNet is essentially just trying to make UDP more reliable, but it's still slower than raw TCP.

[3D world studio]

Don't post the same message more than once. All threads will be read, no need to spam the forums.

[LW3 and Source Code]

You can compile Lua as LuaJIT code.

[Is Leadwerks capable of physics required for space games?]

I've made a few space simulations with LE2, and had no bigger problems. You should use a quite small scale for models, because of the accuracy limitations of 32-bit floats. Hopefully LE3 can be recompiled as 64-bit float version (and also Newton 3.0) to overcome those limitations. A 64-bit float is not only twice as accurate, but 10 million times more accurate than a 32-bit float (7 vs 15 digits), and since in long range simulations we need also distance, the accuracy is converted into range.

[Delete all entities from the frameworks world]

You should move the camera a bit backwards to see the cube.

[Delete all entities from the frameworks world]

ReInitialize() is just a Cubix game specific reinitialization to create default values for enemies and player:

 

 

void Cubix::ReInitialize()

{

pla=game.scene.SetCurrentPlayer("player1");

if(NULL==pla->body)Notify("player1 not found");

pla->SetWeapon("rifle");

CreateEnemies();

cubes.at(0).SetGravityMode(false); // prepare first attacking cube

snd2.Load("Models/Cube1/Cube1.ogg");

src2.Create(snd2,LOOP);

src2.SetRange(100);

src2.SetVolume(0.6);

src2.Play();

//SetEntityKey(snd2,"name","snd2");

//SetEntityName(src2,"src2");

sounds["exp"].Load("models/cube1/cubedeath.ogg");

sources["exp"].Create(sounds["exp"],EAX);

sources["exp"].SetRange(100);

sources["exp"].SetVolume(0.6);

sounds["die"].Load("models/player1/playerdeath.ogg");

sources["die"].Create(sounds["die"],EAX);

sources["die"].SetRange(100);

game.scene.framewerk.listener.SetPosition(game.scene.cam.GetPosition(GLOBAL));

game.scene.framewerk.listener.SetRotation(game.scene.cam.GetRotation(GLOBAL));

game.scene.framewerk.listener.SetParent(game.scene.cam);

//Sound::SetEAXEffect(MOUNTAINS); // engine bug: this disables 3D sounds

game.scene.foregroundworld.Set();

emitter1=GetFirstEntityByKey("name","emitter_1",ENTITY_EMITTER);

//TEmitter emitter2=GetFirstEntityByKey("name","emitter_1",ENTITY_EMITTER);

game.scene.world.Set();

//if(!emitter2)MessageBoxA(0,"NO EMITTER",0,0);

//EntityColor(emitter1,Vec4(1,0,0,1));

//emitter1.SetArea(Vec3(1,1,1));

//SetEmitterArea(emitter2,Vec3(1,1,1));

}

[Delete all entities from the frameworks world]

Actually the code was not in gamelib, but in cubix. There I have this code to switch to the next level, clearing and recreating framework (it still uses gamelib functions though):

 

 

#if devel

Keyboard::I****(KEY_F2) ||

#endif

nextlevel )

{ // TODO: This will go to GameLib

nextlevel=false;

//game.scene.framewerk.Free();

game.scene.skyworld.Set();

game.scene.skyworld.Clear();

game.scene.skyworld.Free();

game.scene.world.Set();

game.scene.world.Clear();

game.scene.world.Free();

game.scene.foregroundworld.Set();

game.scene.foregroundworld.Clear();

game.scene.foregroundworld.Free();

FreeEntity(game.scene.outofworldentity["sound_1"].entity); //TODO: free all entities loop

game.scene.outofworldentity.clear(); // clear the whole map and resize it to 0

//FreeEntity(game.scene.scene);

#if devel

printf("LEVEL2: CLEAR\n");

CountEntities();

#endif

game.scene.ReInitialize();

game.luat.Create(); // create the LuaTools object

game.luat.SetScriptObject("fw",game.scene.framewerk); // set the Lua variable fw

game.scene.LoadMap("maps/level2.sbx");

ReInitialize();

SetStats(0); // TODO: Somehow Application should do this

BeginRender();

EndRender();

Flip(1,-2);

}

[Delete all entities from the frameworks world]

It works fine, you just have to make sure you delete everything and recreate everything in the right order.

[Delete all entities from the frameworks world]

In gamelib I wrote a function which clears the framework worlds. It's a bit tricky because not all entities are part of a world, like sources, so you have to keep pointers for those yourself.

[LE3 Physics]

Those kind of games are also quite boring and you finish them in 8 hours and rarely play again, maybe once a year. A physics rich game would bring much more variety to the game, and let the game be played over and over again with different styles.

[My Reasons, Story & Explanation [READ ALL BEFORE REPLYING]]

I work with multiple engines all the time, and don't have a primary engine, because none of them can do everything I need.

LE3 will take over some roles as primary engine, but it can't also fully replace all other engines I need.

[CSS3 radial gradient "fullscreen"]

Tried that also, doesn't work. Also quirks mode doesn't work in IE9. But without doctype it works in all browsers.

[CSS3 radial gradient "fullscreen"]

The problem is your DOCTYPE tag. I leave it always out, because the server/browser knows better what doctype it should be. And giving any kind of DOCTYPE only breaks things.

[CSS3 radial gradient "fullscreen"]

Can you post your html source? You're probably doing something wrong.

[CSS3 radial gradient "fullscreen"]

That's because you have some other stuff on your page besides the body field.

It works with a plain page which has only body tag and nothing else.

If you use a form tag, then you probably need to apply the radial gradient to the html tag, or to the form tag, but then you also need to put the margins to 0 since the form tag has some default margin of 5 or something.

I would probably use a div tag which has 100% width and height.

[CSS3 radial gradient "fullscreen"]

Seems to work for me by default correctly (using Chrome):

 

 

body

{

background: #1e5799; /* Old browsers */

background: -moz-radial-gradient(center, ellipse cover, #1e5799 0%, #2989d8 50%, #207cca 51%, #7db9e8 100%); /* FF3.6+ */

background: -webkit-gradient(radial, center center, 0px, center center, 100%, color-stop(0%,#1e5799), color-stop(50%,#2989d8), color-stop(51%,#207cca), color-stop(100%,#7db9e8)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */

background: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, ellipse cover, #1e5799 0%,#2989d8 50%,#207cca 51%,#7db9e8 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */

background: -o-radial-gradient(center, ellipse cover, #1e5799 0%,#2989d8 50%,#207cca 51%,#7db9e8 100%); /* Opera 12+ */

background: -ms-radial-gradient(center, ellipse cover, #1e5799 0%,#2989d8 50%,#207cca 51%,#7db9e8 100%); /* IE10+ */

background: radial-gradient(ellipse at center, #1e5799 0%,#2989d8 50%,#207cca 51%,#7db9e8 100%); /* W3C */

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#1e5799', endColorstr='#7db9e8',GradientType=1 ); /* IE6-9 fallback on horizontal gradient */

}

 

Generated with this gradient tool, I use it always for all kind of gradients:

http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/

[Some questions to be clarified before purchase.]

1) Since you are still in 2-3 year development, you don't need a DLL, since LE3 comes as a static lib.

2) Shadow distance is a general problem of shadow mapping engines. But nobody seems to use stencil shadows anymore, although I prefer them. Yeah they are too sharp, but rather too sharp than too low distance. If I knew how to solve the shadow problem, I would write my own engine.

3) Just buy LE2 now to get LE3 cheaper.

4) I'd say just do single exe apps, without the need for any runtime DLLs. You need mingw64 for that.

[Poly Count]

Crysis polycounts:

Weapons (1st person and 3rd person bind models)

1st person: about 6000 triangles (same as cryengine1; not more really needed ? above, normal maps are not needed)

3rd person: about 1500 triangles

 

Characters

As we are using attachments we have to split the triangle numbers in the separate parts:

* Heads 3k triangles

* Body 5k triangles

* Attachments 1 k triangles

 

Vehicles

Max. 20000 polygons is our internal limit

 

Buildings

Hard to answer ? put detail were detail is needed. No real need to go crazy. If you only have a few buildings in your level you can spend more triangles, but you should be careful in City maps.

 

Vegetation

Between 500 and 2500 triangles for trees ?whereas the ones with 2500 should not be used in a dense forest because of the filtrate ? It heavily depends on the scenery you want to create.

[Where can we d/l the latest version of the island demo?]

The mind only need to thinkith there is an ocean. The imagination is a far more powerful ally. The trough of disillusionment is a hard enemy to overcome. Check out Jonathon Blow's vids on the human condition.

Last year scientists actually wanted to test if we live in a matrix, and every test result indicated yes:

http://www.ign.com/a...g-in-the-matrix

[To lightmap or to not lightmap - that's my question]

less than that I would say...

 

http://www.leadwerks...ain-shadow-bug/

That's a bug, so it doesn't count

[To lightmap or to not lightmap - that's my question]

Let's hope LE3 will have both forward and deferred rendering, because I really miss the long shadows of forward rendering (shadow volumes). Deferred rendering is only good for small rooms, but for big areas you need forward rendering with long shadows, else your shadows just disappear after 500 units like in LE2.

[Where can we d/l the latest version of the island demo?]

I hope LE3 does not get 2.5D terrain. Other engines have voxel terrain, which is then tesselated on the GPU as polygons, and can do real 3D terrains with overhangs, loops, tunnels, etc... Just like a normal mesh can do.

I think modern GPUs support also 3D textures, instead of only 2D textures, which could be used then as 3D spacemap for terrains.