[A Simple Scene Loader in Blitzmax]

which is?

[A Simple Scene Loader in Blitzmax]

MG, you can also keep your abstract path relative to your app's folder, in case you're working outside LE's, with:

RegisterAbstractPath AppDir

[Marine Soldier]

Cool model. I'm also looking forward to all of your packs becoming gmf-ized

[Cartography Shop is now free]

wow! so many memories cross my mind!

Guys over at Irrlicht will be glad with the news. Irrlicht supports .csm files natively

[Tutorial- from Blender to Leadwerk's Scene Editor]

done!

Thanks for the link, I had no idea there was a place to put resources in.

 

regards,

Alvaro

[Tutorial - basic transparent material]

cool!

Should the tuts get updated, I'll be reuploading them

 

I'll also check what other tutorials I may capture, mostly on the artist tools side.

 

thanks for commenting.

Alvaro

[LEADWERKS STOPED WORKING!!!!!!!!]

worst of the cases, back up your custom models, textures and materials, delete the SDK folder and do a new checkout.

[Tutorial - basic transparent material]

Hi guys,

After finishing the blender to leadwerks basic tutorial, I decided to capture a second VT on how to create a simple transparent material that can be used as glass.

hope it helps somehow.

 

regards,

Alvaro

[Tutorial- from Blender to Leadwerk's Scene Editor]

Indeed, but I'd rather do the fbx workflow; adding an edge split modifier may solve the obj smoothing issue, but duplicates a lot of vertices and adds unnecessary polycount to the mesh. It seems like fbx is a great format to work with LE, since as you say, it supports both static and animated meshes properly

Or, if your mesh is non-curve, setting its rendering mode to "solid" will do the trick with no extra vertex count.

[Tutorial- from Blender to Leadwerk's Scene Editor]

Nice tip! I just exported my mesh to autodesk's fbx using the following settings:

and using fbx2gmf, the file shows up just fine!

 

So another alternative and efficient workflow would be:

1. Model/texture in blender

2. Export to fbx

3. convert using fbx2gmf.

 

thanks again for the suggestion

Setting up the scene in the editor should be the same.

 

regards,

Alvaro

[Tutorial- from Blender to Leadwerk's Scene Editor]

Thanks for commenting guys. I'm glad you find the tut useful. I also think blender is a very powerful 3d application and little by little it's gaining a place among the different 3d fields, game dev included .

 

As a side note; I just tried the obj2gmf converter and it works fine, you just double click on it and then it asks for the .obj file to convert. The only thing, comparing the 2 objs created (the one from unwrap 3d and the one converted with obj2gmf) is that the shading looks different in the one converted with LE's tool, as if it had a weird shadow, similar to when you haven't smoothed your surfaces, whereas the file saved from unwrap3d displays just fine.

Obj2gmf version:

 

unwrap3d version:

 

I wonder what causes it.

 

regards,

Alvaro

[Tutorial- from Blender to Leadwerk's Scene Editor]

Big version on Vimeo

 

[Tutorial- from Blender to Leadwerk's Scene Editor]

Hi guys, long time no see.

I had some spare time today, and I saw several threads asking about how to create scenes for LE, so I thought this quick intro could be useful:

part 1:

part 2:

 

For those using other 3d applications, it's still useful as long as you can export to obj.

 

cheers,

Alvaro

[A Simple Scene Loader in Blitzmax]

whoa MG!

There's some serious bmax stuff going on there dude! Pretty cool! thx for posting it.

[Framwerk compile warnings]

I'm getting those warnings, I'll try your fixes. Thanks for pointing them out Roland.

[Anyone knows a free/cheap animation+rigging software?]

pacemaker became free and has been a great skeletal animation tool for b3d:

http://www.goddysey.com/pacemaker.htm

Dunno how bones will behave when saving them to gmf though, but it sure is a nice tool to have.

@PixelPerfect: have you tried exporting animated characters from Fragmotion to LE? If so, how did you achieve it? Is there a GMF exporter for fragmotion?

@Niosop: have you got any info on how to get your rigged characters from blender to gmf?

[Scene Loading Example]

hahahaha, you guys rule! best thing is that you both are the ones that save my back both in C++ and bmax! I wonder what will happen now that MG has joined the dark forces of bmax coding, mmmm....mmmmm hahahah!

 

Marleys, the latest code you posted is working perfectly alright. Thanks a lot. Please keep on drinking some more beers and give the bmx code a look too. Cheers!

have some beers on us. Prost!

[Scene Loading Example]

MG, any updates to the code after the latest 2010 sync?

[Soldier model with .gmf, .x, .3ds, .fbx, .dae versions]

Yup, thanks a lot, many of us were waiting for it. It's great to insert it in scenes for checking scale and proportion up

[Editor stretching weirdly on fullscreen]

uh oh! d'oh!

[Editor stretching weirdly on fullscreen]

Thanks for all the info guys.

I apologize since I had no idea of what could be posted where. It's a bit weird having to think if what you're posting should be available to the whole public or just to SDK owners. I thought the forum itself filtered that stuff; however, since it's an EDITOR question now I know it should be placed there. I hadn't seen the editor forums before.

 

Thanks.

 

ps. I just tried going fullscreen with a single directional light and it displayed fine. This is a [sOLVED] thread now.

all I am doing is pointing out that all SDK owners need to start being more observant when they are putting info/questions or answering questions in posts.

Then there should be a way of knowing which forums are public and which are private (like an icon, a radiation sign, a pirate flag or something). Once you're logged in you can't tell the difference. Only when you're not logged can you tell a difference between the 2 forums.

[Editor stretching weirdly on fullscreen]

Hi guys,

When I set the editor to full screen the scene and meshes in it get stretched in a weird way:

This didn't happen prior to latest major 2.3 sync. It goes back to normal when I restore the window down to its previous state. Are you guys getting it too? Can it be a display error if you got a 16:9 resolution?

 

cheers,

Alvaro

[Is Leadwerks Engine 2.28 still an active project?]

Well it's time to ask for that xmas present guys! How bout a nice LE upgrade?

[Have you guys played the "Darkest of Days" demo?]

Indeed many are using marmoset's toolbag just to display their models in realtime with the engine's capabilities:

http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=61346

Toolbag runs even in standalone mode, no need for the game. This is where the soldier model was displayed

ppl commenting about it and its possible uses:

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/general-discussion/9005-marmoset-toolbag.html

some more info(and some tuts):

http://gameartist.nl/tag/marmoset-toolbag/

toolbag youtube tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kfkKPH3gSY&feature=related

 

It's kinda like having Leadwerks'mesh+material editor into a single app

[Have you guys played the "Darkest of Days" demo?]

ahhhh got it! So it is the character you had modeled, but the renders were done in their tools by the modeler who created it. Want me to update my 1st post? This is how rumors begin, lol

I also thought you kinda had some empathy with their engine and hence you were in contact with them or something. It's funny how it all took me to this "journey". Now I'm loosing some precious time I could spend learning LE playing a demo

cheers!