[Help please!! EXE of STANDLONE PUBLISH doesn't work...SOLVED (Size of DATA.ZIP bigger than expected)]

Never mind.  I think I misunderstood you then.

[Help please!! EXE of STANDLONE PUBLISH doesn't work...SOLVED (Size of DATA.ZIP bigger than expected)]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

If you upload the project for me I can run it in the VS debugger.

Josh, he attached a blank, published standalone project in an earlier post in this thread that he says also doesn't work for him.

[Help please!! EXE of STANDLONE PUBLISH doesn't work...SOLVED (Size of DATA.ZIP bigger than expected)]

Do you want to attach an exported new project for me to test?

[Help please!! EXE of STANDLONE PUBLISH doesn't work...SOLVED (Size of DATA.ZIP bigger than expected)]

You can try two other things:

1.  Reinstalling OpenAL
2.  Do you have a copy of a published standalone project from before that worked (a backup)?  If so, can you still run that?  If you can, compare the files in that project with the one in a project you try publishing now (in the base directory) to see if any files are missing.  If you want, I can upload a blank published project for you to compare with.

[Achievements POPUP and RESET Achievements on Steam]

Yes, I did it through code.  I don't know anything about the console.

[Achievements POPUP and RESET Achievements on Steam]

I played with this late last year and I use C/C++ so I don't know how much this will help; it may have broken since then.  Getting the achievements to show worked but it wasn't instant.  Sometimes it took a few seconds.  It was acting weird but it's supposed to be better when you actually release the game.  Resetting achievements worked fine.  I just called SteamUserStats()->ResetAllStats(true) for that.

[C++ Tutorial error?]

Yes, you're right.  It should get rid of the need to use Leadwerks:: for every function.  I believe it would give you an error if you didn't have the using there though.

[C++ Tutorial error?]

2 hours ago, reepblue said:

Yeah. There is a Leadwerks::Print(), but there is no such thing as Print() unless you make your own function.

Ah, I didn't know that.  Thanks.

1 hour ago, Thirsty Panther said:

I'm going OK just started arrays, vectors and containers. Its a bit of a step up from Lua but I'm feeling a little more comfortable with C++ than I thought I would.

Good job.  Seems you're picking it up fast.

[C++ Tutorial error?]

I might be being pedantic here so bear with me:

Good catch on the semicolon but those won't affect your program.  Toss some extra semicolons in your program between functions and it'll still compile.  Still, while it will run just fine, agreed that it's unnecessary.

As for the namespace thing, that's only if you include Leadwerks commands, right?  For these simple C++ examples, I don't believe it's necessary.  (He does talk about namespaces in the first C++ tutorial page.)

Finally, it should be printf, not Print.  Like, everywhere.  ?

[C++ Tutorial error?]

Yes, you're right.  I don't believe C/C++ has an end statement anyway.  Probably some copy and pasting error on Josh's part.

[gizmo out of position]

It's the same problem as you had in this thread:

 

[Load and Play a sound by CODE (without noise.lua and without using any Pivots)]

According to the docs, the example code looks like this.

sound = Sound:Load("Sound/Music/menutheme.wav")
sound:Play()

This should just play a straightforward sound.  No effects possible.  Don't think you can even set the volume but it sounds like you wanted to start with something simpler.

I don't use Lua so I can't tell you where the code goes.

[Camera don't render on texture in STANDALONE version]

Are you loading a texture that's maybe not in the exported datafile?  Have you checked to make sure all your textures/etc. load successfully?

[Map Building Design]

I had to try this myself.  I added textures but the results were what you would expect:

Brushes:

Models:

I then combined all boxes into 1 mesh and all collision boxes into 1 collisionmesh in 3DS Max and exported it.  The speed was again good:

I think the lesson is that limbs slow Leadwerks down a lot and yet individual brushes don't.

[Map Building Design]

2 hours ago, Ma-Shell said:

The difference comes from the fact that the entire thing is collapsed to just a single model. This means that every piece of code, which iterates over all instances only walks over this object once instead of 1000 times. Also there is only one transformation matrix which is getting updated and pushed back and forth from CPU to GPU and which takes much less space (which can be used for caching again)

Does this mean that if reepblue combined all of those boxes into a single mesh that it would be the same speed?  Because that's probably how you would want to export the house in the original post anyway.

[Map Building Design]

8 hours ago, cassius said:

I don't understand. Why create basic shapes when there are physics options in the model editor. Or am I missing something?

The automatic physics options don't work very well for most shapes and certainly not for complex ones.  Even something relatively simple like the scene below (a single FBX), the various options either overdo it or give horrible results.  The final one is convex decomposition with the maximum (6) iterations.

[Map Building Design]

I guess I don't understand the difference.  What can you do with your method that you can't do by exporting the models together (one as the visible mesh, one as the collision model)?

[Map Building Design]

I saw that and had several comments on that page.  It seemed to me like a longer way to do what you can do directly in the modeling program (create and label a collisionmesh or collisionhull).

[Map Building Design]

Leadwerks doesn't seem to be very good at creating even simpler collision meshes (as per my thread) so I think you'll need to use Marcousik's suggestion and make them in your modeling program yourself.

Edit: just realized that the thread is in the LE5 beta forums though it discusses LE4 so I don't know who will have access.

[Script memory usage explaination]

6 hours ago, Marcousik said:

I m actually really curious about what of games leadwerks five will let us construct.. What do you think Josh? Will it be possible to build kind of just cause 3 with it, including all features of the game???

What is your current limitation in LE4?  Is it framerate?

[terrain shader question]

I don't know anything about shaders but I'm guessing klepto uses a different shader type then to get the height of a wave for object buoyancy.

[Have Bloom Not Affect Skybox]

Here are the three versions (no bloom, default bloom, your bloom).

Your bloom definitely does a much better job of not affecting the background (though it still alters it a bit).  Thanks much for sharing this.

[Have Bloom Not Affect Skybox]

2 hours ago, havenphillip said:

Mine says "NONE - opt out of all beta programs." I do have that shader, too.

I only have one in the Utility folder.  I'm guessing you downloaded another somewhere.  Would you mind attaching the files to a post?

[Have Bloom Not Affect Skybox]

In Steam, if you right-click on Leadwerks, go to Properties and Betas tab, you'll see if you're opted in.  But the one that is generated with release for me is 1,767 bytes and this is the entire thing:

SHADER version 1
@OpenGL2.Vertex
#version 400

uniform mat4 projectionmatrix;
uniform mat4 drawmatrix;
uniform vec2 offset;
uniform vec2 position[4];

in vec3 vertex_position;

void main(void)
{
	gl_Position = projectionmatrix * (drawmatrix * vec4(position[gl_VertexID]+offset, 0.0, 1.0));
}
@OpenGLES2.Vertex

@OpenGLES2.Fragment

@OpenGL4.Vertex
#version 400

uniform mat4 projectionmatrix;
uniform mat4 drawmatrix;
uniform vec2 offset;
uniform vec2 position[4];

in vec3 vertex_position;

void main(void)
{
	gl_Position = projectionmatrix * (drawmatrix * vec4(position[gl_VertexID]+offset, 0.0, 1.0));
}
@OpenGL4.Fragment
//This shader should not be attached directly to a camera. Instead, use the bloom script effect.
#version 400

//-------------------------------------
//MODIFIABLE UNIFORMS
//-------------------------------------
uniform float cutoff=0.15;//The lower this value, the more blurry the scene will be
uniform float overdrive=1.0;//The higher this value, the brighter the bloom effect will be
//-------------------------------------
//
//-------------------------------------

uniform sampler2D texture0;//Diffuse
uniform sampler2D texture1;//Bloom
uniform bool isbackbuffer;
uniform vec2 buffersize;
uniform float currenttime;

out vec4 fragData0;

void main(void)
{
	vec2 icoord = vec2(gl_FragCoord.xy/buffersize);
	if (isbackbuffer) icoord.y = 1.0 - icoord.y;
	vec4 scene = texture(texture0, icoord); // default
	vec4 blur = (texture(texture1,icoord)-cutoff); // glowmap
	blur.r = max(blur.r,0.0); blur.g = max(blur.g,0.0); blur.b = max(blur.b,0.0);
	float pixelbrightness = scene.r * 0.3 + scene.g * 0.59 + scene.b * 0.11;
	fragData0 = scene + (overdrive * blur * max(0.5, 1.0 - overdrive * pixelbrightness ));
	//fragData0=blur;
}

Try creating a new project and see if Leadwerks creates this for you too in the Utility folder.

[Have Bloom Not Affect Skybox]

Thank you.  I'll try it in a bit.  Are you on default or beta?