[Applying Tri-Planar Texturing to a Mesh]

Hey,I think there isn't a shader for that stuff here,but I can tell you how to assign a shader to a mesh:

 

First load a mesh (without materials)

TEntity mesh = LoadMesh("");

 

Then you load a material with your shader and assign it:

MAT File:
texture0="abstract::blah.dds"
shader="abstract::your_shader.vert","abstract::your_shader.frag"
LOAD:
TMaterial mat = LoadMaterial("abstract::mymaterial.mat");
PaintEntity(mesh,mat);

 

And get the Shader from the material for adjusting:

 

TShader shader = GetMaterialShader(mat);
SetShaderFloat(shader,"myuniformvariable",0.0f);
//or
void SetShaderFloat(TShader shader, str uniform, float x )
void SetShaderFloatArray(TShader shader, str name, flt* ar, int count=1)
void SetShaderVec2(TShader shader, str uniform, TVec2 v )
void SetShaderVec3(TShader shader, str uniform, TVec3 v )
void SetShaderVec4(TShader shader, str uniform, TVec4 v )
void SetShaderInt(TShader shader, str uniform, int i )
void SetShaderIntArray(TShader shader, str name, int* ar, int count=1)
void SetShaderMat3(TShader shader, str uniform, mat3 mat )
void SetShaderMat4(TShader shader, str uniform, mat4 mat )

 

I hope it helps a little bit

[Speed based variables]

Okey thanks

[Speed based variables]

So there isn't a way to make a macro or something like that and add it allways to the values to have a speed based effect ?

The 2 lines above makes that the weapon going to be draged when the player going to be draged,but divided with 2000 and 800 for a little moving effect.

[Speed based variables]

Thanks ,but things like :

_slotManager->_weaponSlot[_slotManager->i_currentSlot]->_currentWeapon->VC3_rotationsmooth.X += VC3_drag.X/3000.0f / AppSpeed();
_slotManager->_weaponSlot[_slotManager->i_currentSlot]->_currentWeapon->VC3_rotationsmooth.Y += -VC3_drag.Y/800.0f / AppSpeed();

 

???? is that right?

[Speed based variables]

Hey ya,

I have a question about the functions AppSpeed() and AppTime().So I use right now the AppSpeed() command to make some effects time or speed based ,so it runs with 190 FPS and with 60 equal,but it doesn't.

For example I have this line of code:

weapon->VC3_rotationsmooth.Z = Curve(-0.05 * AppSpeed(),weapon->VC3_rotationsmooth.Z,5.0);

 

It is a simple Effect function for recoil of the weapon.So I had with 190 FPS the value Curve(-0.06....) and everything worked fine,but then I set the Vsync mode and it was only sh**.

The version with * AppSpeed() don't work well ,because it's not equal with 190 FPS , 60 FPS or 40 FPS,so what to do?

 

Is there a way to adjust all values with 60 FPS,so that AppSpeed is 1.0 ,and have the same result at 190 FPs or 40 FPs etc.??

 

Thank you

[SetCameraClipPlane()]

Look at CameraRange() -> http://www.leadwerks.com/wiki/index.php?title=CameraRange

[exception access violation problem]

Can you show us the code?Have you installed OpenAL?

[LE Community Project]

Wow very nice blog ,saw a few plans for the future and I think this going to be the best Communityproject ever

Thank you guys

[Explosions for my little Game]

When you want to make the explosion bigger or smaller in the diameter you have to change the SetEmitterVelocity(Vec3(0,0,0),Vec3(1,1,1)) and (optional) the waver value

 

For Example:

Big Explosion:
SetEmitterWaver(emitter,50.0);
SetEmitterVelocity(Vec3(0,1,0),Vec3(5,0,5)) //When the particles moves very fast you need more particles otherwise the distance between the particles are too big and it looks bad
Small Explosion:
SetEmitterWaver(emitter,5.0);
SetEmitterVelocity(emitter,Vec3(0,1,0),Vec3(1,0,1));

[Multithreaded OpenGL context?]

Hey ya,

I would ask you if there is a way to do some OpenGL drawing multithreaded ,for example for loading screens ,when the models and textures are loaded ,I can't play a smoothly loading animation,so it would be a good idea to do that in an onther thread.

So can I do multithreading with the openGL context?

Would be nice to hear something

[Switch and enum]

First one question is ,why you write "aLabel::TextPosition" and not only "TextPosition..." .Is the enum inside a class?

All is right only the line "case aLabel::TextPosition.Center:" is wrong.You have to write in both cases the following:

#include "aLabel.h"
aLabel::aLabel(void)
{
textPosition = aLabel::TextPosition::Center;
}

and

case aLabel::TextPosition::Center:

 

Only a little mistake

[Particle rotation]

I can't see why you can't use usual LE2-emitter for creating sparks effect.

Because when I use a spark texture ,which have the size of 64x256 pixels it turns allways in an other direction.I don't know how to fix that..

[Particle rotation]

Ok thanks I think I going to make my own emitter system for something like sparks of explosions

[Particle rotation]

Hey I would ask you if I can set the rotation of the sprites or particles emitted by a emitter?

I see that the rotation of the sprites are random and you can't create something like sparks flying away from the position of the emitter like a firework.

 

Is there a way to set the rotation ?

 

Thanks

[SetParent across worlds]

Like josh explain in the wiki each world have a List of all entitys,Lights etc. for managing (rendering for example).So I don't think it is possible

[Animations character model upper body flickering]

I had the same problem ,some animations of FPScreator works fine in a modeling program ,but when you convert it into gmf. you have some lags.

I heard that you can solve this problem with Ultimate Unwrap 3D ,because it exports directly in gmf

[2D Animated spritesheets...anyone interested?]

One option is to cut the whole texture to frames and put it into a pak(optional but make sense for smaller file) and make a class with the ,I don't know lets say 24 textures, as an array and make it like for a animation with a frame value ( caus you need a integer for the frame when you write texture[frame] ,use the AppTime function like this:

if(AppTime() > timer)
{
frame++;
timer = AppTime() + /* now the delay in millisecs*/ 100;
}

 

The second option is to make a kind of grid and a second buffer.The you render the actuall textureframe to the buffer with the given gridpoint for the x,y like DrawImage(t_explosion,X,Y,256,-256); .So you make a kind of cameraspot for the individual frames.

[best way to transfer big files?]

For better performance you could use the zlib library to compress the textures and decompress them later.(The server has a kind of cache folder with the compressed new textures and the client only download them and decompress (decompressing with zlib is very fast.I had around 30MB/s)

[Animations character model upper body flickering]

Did you exported it in FBX and convert it later ?

I had the same problem with the fbx file format and animations ---> Ultimate Unwrap 3D

[FindChild in a Objectscript]

Thanks

[FindChild in a Objectscript]

Hey I want to learn lua for scripting objects in the Editor.Now I want to turn a child of a model in the script ,but I become an error when I save it.

 

Here my try

require("scripts/class")
local class=CreateClass(...)
function class:CreateObject(model)
local object=self.super:CreateObject(model)

object.outer = self.model:FindChild("Outer") -- here I become an error


end

[Leadwerks Phong]

Ok I'am going to buy it

[Leadwerks Phong]

I tried UU3D and it works very well.Are there any other modellingprogramms available to make that kind of normal smooth ? (Blender,Milkshape...)

[Leadwerks Phong]

Yes but only for display ,so the model itself not going to be changed.

I only want to add phong with 32° ,nothing else

[Leadwerks Phong]

I use the shader ,but it is a SSAO shader,which makes corners a little bit darker like in the real world.It think the problem is that the cinema4D phong tag is a kind of deformer and will not be saved in the FBX or the other formats.

 

@saboteur:

can I send you a model with the phong problem and you convert it in UU3D like you made with you models ,because I haven't UU3D and when it works well I will buy it.Would be nice

test.zip