[Expose vegetation functions]

+1 For the suggestion.

 

As a (temporary) alternative, you can take the your models and apply the vegetation shader randomly generating terrain coordinates.

[Using a skydome]

Within C# and Leadwerks.Net

 

Framework.Effects.SkyBox.Material = new Material("abstract::FullskiesBlueClear0016_2_L.mat");

 

You can also do this easily using the Sandbox editor:

- Drag an Atmosphere object into the world

- Set your desired material file

[RPG Creation]

Don't forget C# / VB.Net!

 

I would follow Pixel Perfect's advice and make something small, learn the content pipeline, and get a grasp on a programming language that feels the most comfortable.

[lod?]

Suffix your filenames appropriately to represent each model.

 

Straight from the Leadwerks Wiki: "The engine will first look for a mesh of the name or file path provided. It will also load any LOD meshes that are found, indicated by adding the suffix "LOD"n to the file name, where n is the detail level."

An example:

Rocks_Medium_Stone.gmf
Rocks_Medium_StoneLOD1.gmf
Rocks_Medium_StoneLOD2.gmf

[Leadwerks.Net Wrapper]

If you mean within your own application, it is possible.

 

I did a quick Google search found this link with several options regarding resources and embedded DLLs: Embed DLL within EXE

 

One option:

ILMerge

[Leadwerks.Net Wrapper]

Update!

 

Community user Raz found that the AlphaMap class had a legacy index parameter.

(This invalid parameter can still be found on the Leadwerks Wiki)

 

This has been fixed, and now will no longer throw a managed pinvoke exception.

 

 

 

Feel free to offer your critique, suggestions, and feedback!

[Leadwerks Logo Kit]

+1 bump thread for updated logo

 

[Debugging Leadwerks with C#]

Im sorry this didn't solve your issue.

 

So that you may increase the performance and extensibility of Leadwerks.Net, I will consider adding you as a developer account. PM me once you have an assembla username, with the features you wish to improve

[General settings]

Lua scripts initialize objects, and can set keys. Here is a simple example of how you can do this yourself

 

function class:CreateObject(model)
       local object=self.super:CreateObject(model)

-- Sets default keys
object.model:SetKey("SomethingAwesome","1")
end

[PFWGui - Source Code Now Available]

This GUI looks wonderful! I can't get it to work. Could you include / update the appropriate shaders in the RAR file?

[Debugging Leadwerks with C#]

There is another solution!

Within the DLL.cs file you need to change this:

 

internal static class Dll
{
	private const string ReleasePath = "engine.dll";
	private const string DebugPath = "engine.debug.dll";
	private const string Path = DebugPath  //CHANGE TO DEBUG //ReleasePath;

 

Only downside is that you will need to recompile the C# project library yourself.

 

I will update the library to allow for process-bound debugging.

[Free sculpting application!]

You creatures are very creative!

[Need c# Wrapper]

Lazlo's Leadwerks.NET framework that is built on top of LE.NET

 

It is not built on top of LE.Net, but a different OOP structure that follows the common practices of .Net developers. It includes events, inheritance, and other .Net features that Josh's API doesn't support with the vanilla libraries.

 

I appreciate ZioRed for offering the library as an alternative solution.

 

I'm tired of fighting communities and rollbacks without any support.

 

I will support Leadwerks.Net until 2013, or until LE3 adds a C# library. Even then I would still build an OOP library with an entity structure that's not based on the legacy TEntity objects . Hell, even LUA supports inheritance.

 

It's time for me to get back to my project. Is there any updates in headers? SVN is protected now. Anonymous access doesn't work.

Can you give me one Lazlo?

 

As Raz pointed out, look at the pinned thread in the C# forums. How to use it can be found HERE

[Arteria3d launch Elystian Red Knight Character]

texturing is excellent!

[Rendering to a custom Handle]

Lazlo, klepto2, along with a few others were able to successfully pull this off.

 

Unfortunately, since the server crash a lot of the resources were lost. Hopefully they'll see this post and respond. Here are some forum links that might get you started.

 

Leadwerks rendering to custom controll

TKControl Beta

[Debugging Leadwerks with C#]

Currently I have not bee able to ascertain the reason behind this. I believe it relates to the console commands (possible Win32) that are intercepted by Visual Studio; commands are executed from an 'unsafe' non-CLR library.

 

(I could be totally incorrect, just a guess)

 

You have the option to traverse the file generated by the Leadwerks code, as it is appended and write that to the console manually. Although, I wouldn't recommend that.

[Drawing circles]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I will have to experiment to see what gives the best results

 

Anyone know how Josh accomplishes this within the editor?

[Drawing circles]

Are there examples within the community that draw a circle using the cameras perspective? Like the sandbox paintbrush, I need to display a radius around an object using DrawLine() or something similar.

 

I've looked at how this wiki link does it, possibly transpose the vectors.

 

 

How would you draw a circle aligned to the terrain?

[MMOFPS?]

If you are to do research on how large scale shooter MMOs have succeeded, I would look at All Points Bulletin. Their open world provides several degrees of multiplayer freedom and chaos, while also allowing users to opt-in to quests at any time.

[Identifying self within Flip() [resolved]]

Looks like the issue is resolved. Instead of trying to access the within each object, I create a 'marshaller' that does the drawing for the necessary objects.

 

function UpdateCablesCycleThru()
--model,object
for k1,v1 in pairs(objecttable) do
	if v1.type ~= nil then
		if v1.type == NavTypeName then
			local Pos2 = CameraUnproject(fw.main.camera, k1.position)
			DrawPath(Pos2)
		end
	end
end
end

function DrawPath(Pos2) --Used for each object

for k,v in pairs(objecttable) do
	if v.type ~= nil then
		if v.type == NavTypeName then --inherited from 'PhoenixPath'
                               -- Draw elements using both positions
                               local Pos = CameraUnproject(fw.main.camera, k.position)
			DrawLine(Pos2.x, Pos2.y, Pos.x, Pos.y)
		end
	end
end
end

[Identifying self within Flip() [resolved]]

My goal is to cycle all of the entities, and exclude the object that is invoking the event. The problem is that the function attached to AddHook() doesn't have a reference to the object that attached the hook. Seems the AddHook() function can only be passed a delegate (.Net reference) without parameters.

 

(Since the objects I will be adding are not sorted in order, indexes aren't an option)

 

function class:CreateObject(model)
       local object=self.super:CreateObject(model)

AddHook("Flip", UpdateCycleThru(object)) --fails 

function object:Free(model)
	RemoveHook("Flip", UpdateCycleThru(object)) --fails
	self.super:Free()
       end
end

function UpdateCycleThru(object)
       -- Cycle through nodes applying a draw method, except for self
end

 

So my question is, how does an object identify itself from the rest of the objects within the scene, when the function is called outside of the Class overrides?

 

Looking further into this issue, I may have to cycle through these objects using an external script marshaller...

[Converter needet.]

If you use Blender (which can export to almost any format besides GMF), you have the ability to convert your models through any of the included converters.

 

Blender -> FBX -> GMF

Blender -> OBJ -> GMF

etc....

[EKI One]

Looks like good software! I would be pleased to see this integrated with LE3.

 

If the community can wait a couple weeks, I will be releasing an (alpha) version of my AI Pathing algorithms with several different navigation options to choose from. Maybe something temporary until Josh gets third-party software. (The first release will be available as a Leadwerks.Net Plugin / standalone Lua scripts.)

[Real-time snow accumulation]

That video with the bunny model seems to be the way Crysis does their snow / water effects, almost like a projection light that applies onto vertices with a certain angle.

[characters disapear]

With each new object script, is the key for 'collision' being set to 'COLLISION_PROP' ? New instances run the constructor script.

 

Not at home to test, but this might help you

function class:CreateObject(model)
       local object=self.super:CreateObject(model)
       object.model:SetKey("collision","COLLISION_PROP")
end