[Advanced Project Manager]

Yeah the UI needs attention.  I just threw it together so that I could use it.  There are many bugs, I'm actually working on this right now.

1. I did think people wouldn't like entering their steam info.  It doesn't have to be used, but I do use it.  At the very least I could still manage the steam sdk and just have the user input their steam details into the command prompt that show up, as they'll have to do that anyway to upload.
2. I forgot to remove a couple of options;
   • Everything - should package the entire game folder into one zip file and move it to the export path.
   • All folders - should package all the folders within the game folder into one zip named "data.zip".  E.g. The publish folder should contain Data.zip and MyGame.exe as well as any DLL that is needed.
   • All Files - doesn't work atm
   • Separate Folders - Keeps all the folder hierarchy within the game folder but will package all files within that folder. (If this isn't working it's a bug, it works for me)
     • Steam may have changed now... but when I made this it was needed for making small downloads for any updates.  I found that if I had one large package (1GB or so)  even if I changed one file, steam saw that the whole package had changed so it uploaded the whole thing again and said there was a 1GB update for users.  Compressing each folders contents separately helped reduce that update size.
   • Separate Files - doesn't work atm.  I was thinking here it could compress / encrypt each file separately.
3. It's using C#.  I probably will remake it with Ultra engine for those reasons.

 

Thanks for your input! 

[Disable shadows per light, per fragment?]

Is this the correct way to get the lights index?

auto light = CreateDirectionalLight(world);
light->GetIndex();

And would I compare that value to lightIndex here in PBR/Lighting.glsl?

lightIndex = ReadLightGridValue(uint(lightlistpos));

 

[Disable shadows per light, per fragment?]

It was thought for real-time recasting of terrain shadows.  Currently I disable all lighting for where there are shadows from the directional light.  But I'd like to disable the light only for the specific light source so I can get multiple shadows from multiple lights.  This way a point light could light up an area that is in shadow for a directional light.

[Mesh Shaders]

I know what I would do 😁  Make some grass that covers the terrain.  That'd be a good start.

[0.9.5 seems slower than 0.9.4]

This appears to be identified and solved with this bug here.  At lest in debug mode.  Will test release mode soon.

 

[OpenGL 4.6 backend - is maybe planned in future ?]

Ultra 0.9.5 currently uses OpenGL 4.6.

[Mesh Shaders]

Looking forward to this being integrated into Ultra.

Do you think there is much involved in added it in?

[Advanced Project Manager]

Discord for AdvancedProjectManager

ProjectManager.zip

I made this for Leadwerks years ago and have begun getting it ready for Ultra.  Currently it's designed for exporting your projects so that they're ready to share.  It can zip files and / or folders, it can encrypt and password protect them.  It can also manager the upload process to Steam.  It just needs your username, password, APP ID and DEPOT ID and it will upload it for you.

Things to do;

• Bug Fixes
• Advanced management of project updating

First thing to do is set the path to Ultra Engine and the path to your projects.

Screenshot

[Disable shadows per light, per fragment?]

Would it be possible disable shadows for a single light in the fragment shader, with some shader manipulation?

[0.9.5 seems slower than 0.9.4]

While putting together an example I have found something;

When the trees trunks are white, the FPS is stable.  When they are black, the FPS is a sine wave going from 90FPS to 280FPS and back and forth.

It's hit and miss which one I get, obviously there are missing shaders and I think something it's not being set correctly by default upon engine load.  It's interesting how the terrain is black also, I have not assigned any material to this terrain.

[Shadows Popping]

I don't think this is the same issue as I've already posted about.  In this video the shadows seem to pop in sometimes as well as having sharp transition depending on what angle the camera approaches / backs away from the model.  In this project I've only copied the entire "Shaders" folder from the latest update.

PineTree.zip

 

[PickMode for editor selecting]

My pine tree can be selected in the editor now. 

I was wondering though, I can only select the model if pickmode is true in the material settings.  Is it possible to ignore this setting within the editor?  I mean, some models I don't want as pickable within my game but within the editor I'd expect everything to be selectable regardless of that setting.  I understand if it can't, just thought I'd ask.

[LOD's casting shadow when they shouldn't]

I'll test this with the latest update as what I'm seeing / describing might be related to the other shadow bug. 

[LOD's casting shadow when they shouldn't]

What about models with two meshes.  Do they both need shadows enabled or just one?

[LOD's casting shadow when they shouldn't]

The first image in this thread shows LOD3 with no shadows on the right because I disabled them for that model.

What I'm trying to say is, should the shadow option in the material properties be removed if its a "per model feature" and not a "per material feature"?

[LOD's casting shadow when they shouldn't]

That's what I thought, but the shadow casting is a material property isn't it?  Shouldn't shadows be per mesh then? 🤔

[0.9.5 seems slower than 0.9.4]

I'm slowly narrowing this down.  I have conducted tests with the individual models and I am seeing 2x the performance I was in 0.9.4.  Maybe 0.9.5 is showing up a bug in my code that wasn't noticeable before.  

[0.9.5 seems slower than 0.9.4]

3 hours ago, Josh said:

Can't profile a video!

I'm working on an example for you.

[Can't select model in editor]

Hmm, I made sure the "position" button is selected and it doesn't work still.

[Shadows show wrong LODs]

In this video the shadows show the wrong LOD's.  You can see at the start of the video that the shadow belongs to a higher LOD of the model then it pops to the billboard shadow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b486UD5LaJA

[Multiple instances still running after crash to desktop.]

Oh okay.  Yeah, I get the exact same problem.  No errors or anything it's just ignored.

[Multiple instances still running after crash to desktop.]

I was going to see if this happens for me too but I tried your map file and it didn't load for me.  I mean it didn't do anything, it's like the editor ignores it.  Is it missing assets or are they included in the file?  I don't know how the map system works, I don't use them much.

[LOD's casting shadow when they shouldn't]

The attached model has LOD's.  If you disable shadows for LOD3, it won't cast shadows if you drag that LOD into the editor by itself, but it will still cast shadows as part of it's parent.  In the shot below you can see that LOD3 (a billboard) on the right casts no shadow but half the shadow of the tree on the left has the billboards shadow still.

 

 

[Editing an Asset will not update in editor]

If you have a model in the editor and then edit it in the model editor - like toggling it's shadow casting ability - upon saving and closing the model editor it will not update in the editor viewports until you move the viewport with the mouse.  Should it update when the editor is closed?

[Can't select model in editor]

Drag this model into the editor and click away from it to deselect it.  Then try and select it again and it can't be done.

PineLeaves_DIFF.zip