[Green guy missing from project]

I thaught a guy missing on your team

[LE enforces smooth shading on models imported from Blender]

LE3 import is not able to read smooth shading groups.

[Water plane flickering]

I'll try the camera and i'll post some example map also.

[Samsung acquires AMD]

This is just the word used in their title that themagazine used.

But this is a real and good thing that happends to AMD, as this will just help them with their buziness and their development.

[Samsung acquires AMD]

http://wccftech.com/amd-allegedly-merge-samsung/

Monopole manufacturer or software is never a good thing, this is a good news to see AMD empowered.

[LED Material]

1) Increase the light radius ?

2) Not available in LE3 : Use PBR or reflective materials on your walls

The Light solution as you did is the best to keep performance good.

[Water plane flickering]

It even disappear depending just on the angle of camera in some places.

[Free model axe.]

Iron texture is really bad , looks more like some sort of stone.

[Water plane flickering]

The water is flickering when the camera is behind some terrain height.

 

 

[get the Yaw of Pick result direction ?]

Well thats something completely different. You are asking to rotate the player to not face the picked position but to also move the player. You can use the picked position and the normal to determine location.

No i don't want the player to move. You gave me the good solution

 

We can calculate a virtual position then calculate the Yaw to apply to the player without having to move the player

 

 	 local virtualPos = piInfo.position + ( Vec3(1,1,1) * piInfo.normal )
rotY = PerfectAngle( piInfo.position , virtualPos)

 

Applying that rotation to the player and it always faces the normal of the surfaces whenever it is it's position.

 

 

Keep in mind you will probably have to perform some checks to make sure that 'normal.y' doesn't put the player in a weird location in case the pick can ever be ontop or below a "box".

Perhaps giving a bigger value to the pick cylinder argument ?

Is pick performing on visual mesh only ?

[Droid planet]

LE3 water looks good, it will be used for some other levels stages.

[get the Yaw of Pick result direction ?]

Well the perfect angle is used to rotate some entity towards some other entity.

But that can't work for a cover system, if i use it the player rotates but based on it's position and pick position.

And for a cover system you need the player to face the wall surface normal vector, whatever is the player direction.

 

Can't we use Pick.normal ? It is not the normal vector of the wall surface whatever is the surface angle ?

I think we need the normal of the surface (triangle) where the Pick hits something.

[get the Yaw of Pick result direction ?]

I see, but if i use to calculate the vector :

- Player position

- Pick raycast hit position

This will represent the orientation between the player and the wall not the normal vector of the face of the wall hit by the raycast.

The goal was to make the character face the wall, whatever is the Yaw angle of the face of the wall.

 

Perhaps i just don't understood the function so i'll give a try at your solution using the pick position.

[get the Yaw of Pick result direction ?]

Hi,

 

I use Pick result and it's normal to rotate some object to that normal vector , but something is wrong.

Is normal of Pick normal to the surface that was hit ?

 

This code always returns the same Yaw instead of a Yaw based on the surface hit by the racast ?

 

local invNormal =  pickInfo.normal:Inverse() 
local angle = Math:ATan2(  pickInfo.normal .y,   pickInfo.normal .x)
 self.yawPlayer =  angle + 180
end

 

Any clues ? The idea is just the character and camera rotated to face the wall or object hit by the raycast.

[Inverted direction of a normal vector ?]

Thanks.

[Inverted direction of a normal vector ?]

Hi,

 

I got a pick result that gives me the normal vector , but i would also need the inverse direction of that normal vector.

Does anyone already coded that ?

[Angle on X ?]

I found htis usefull examples :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1251828/calculate-rotations-to-look-at-a-3d-point

[Created objects applied to a filter]

Hi,

 

 

When i create a new filter named "Zone1" , i would like that any new created object would be applied in that filter.

I don't know if it would be possible and easy to have that ?

 

For now we just create and dragd and drop objects to the filter we need.

[Prefab file crashes project]

Yes it crashes the editor.

It can be physics as prefabs really don't like child objects having physic collisions.

Perhaps a bug related to that problem ?

[Solved Model and animation problem]

In blender select in object mode both armature and character and choose in the context menu :

Apply Rotation

Apply scale

Apply position

This should fix your character orientation problem, otherwise you've done something wrong elsewhere.

 

Also if anyone could help how can i add multiple animations for the character in leadwerks, for example, and sprint animation a attack and standing still animation...etc...

In the model editor choose "extract animation sequence", enter the start and end frames of the animation length you need to extract.

 

It is some tutorial somewhere or some details on some blog also.

 

Post your Blender model if you want some kind people here to be able help you.

[How to : Raycast collision filter]

I needed the asset cover to be type 30 , a particular type that is a cover.

And i need

- any physic object to collide with this asset cover

- mob raycast should not detect the cover physics

- only player raycast detect the cover as a prop asset

So what is the Lua Collision:SetResponse() for both mobs and player ?

 

The goal is to have the mobs firing at the player even if he is hidden behind the cover asset.

So the player is covered but mobs are still firing at it's position, if the player moves a little outside of the cover it will receive fire damage already.

It's some Gears Of War touch

[How to : Raycast collision filter]

You mean :

 

Mob.lua :

 

Start()
Collision:SetResponse(30, Collision.Prop, Collision.none)
...
end

 

player.lua

 

 

 

Start()
Collision:SetResponse(30, Collision.Prop, Collision.Trigger)
...
end 

 

coverAsset.lua

Start()
entity:SetCollisionType(30)
-- collision between cover and characters
Collision:SetResponse(30, Collision.character, Collision.Trigger)
-- collision between cover and physic moving objects
Collision:SetResponse(30, Collision.Prop, Collision.Trigger)

...
end 

[How to : Raycast collision filter]

I have some question as this is still not clear for me :

- mobs raycast shound not detect a cover object

- player raycast should detect cover barrier

 

How does this works in Lua ?

Cover.lua

 

function Script:Start()
entity:SetCollisionType(30)
Collision:SetResponse(30, Collision.Prop, Collision.Trigger)
end

 

What must be the mob code and player code to have in one case the raycast not detect that barrier and in the other case the raycast detecting that barrier ?

 

 

Agree that Collision:SetResponse() needs to be added to the documentation... but you have asked and been given this answer before...

When i come back to LE3 i forgot many things, having some solid tutorials and docs is what really matters with 3D engines

[Avoid Seams]

The solution is to uncheck "Generate mip maps" in the normal map texture settings.

[Avoid Seams]

Would be hard to say without the model and textures. I would try looking at the diffuse and normal maps first

The model is just fine.

 

I'll bet on your texture all unused parts of the texture are white and the diffuse coloring stops right on the edge of a UV island?

3D coat propose some texture padding, so it avoids seams problems.

I re exported the normal map , and the seams is not visible , but make some strange look artifacts on long distance.