[Yet Another Bug]

Figured it out. It is indeed a bug but I managed to make a hack. I'll make a report when I'll have the time.

[Yet Another Bug]

Hey guys.

So I was continuing to work on my project and I got to the part where I save the maps that I create in my own editor.

There was a bug that made heightmaps flip on some axis or something but now that got fixed with 2.32.

Still when I save my alpha map with dds format (for png,tga,etc it said that there is no loader though on wiki it says that there are) and load them back I get very squared textures just as if all the vertices of a square of terrain have the same blend value.

Look at the picture below to understand better what's happening.

Does it happen to anyone else?

[Leadwerks as API]

Take this from a C++ elitist: BlitzMax is awsome.

I programm anything related to leadwerks in it and I never use the sandbox. It's easy to set up and start programming.

I also tried DBPro and all that ****. Glad I didn't buy anything.

You will see that Leadwerks also has small bugs (which is normal thinking it's made by just one guy) but you will get fixes for them and nothing will actually stop you from working. DBPro as I remember it had tons of bugs with some that were actually big.

[Can't use Print Screen in full-screen?]

This actually happens because of blitzmax.

When I was making Mahjongg I noticed this. I noticed that if you printscreen, alt-tab,paste to paint it will be black, but alt-tab again and printscreen again and the paste will be good.

Didn't test it with Leadwerks but it's based on Blitzmax internals and also uses OpenGL so it should be the same.

[FREE GAME ENGINES AND WHAT YOU THINK!]

Every engine that's drag and drop is totally useless..

I only use Ledwerks for the dll and headers. The sandbox has not even the slightest use for me.

[My First Game]

I accidentally put the ftp download there not the http. All fixed now. It should be automatic now.

[My First Game]

Thank you for your purchase.

I'm not sure why you didn't get the redirect (you are not the first one not to get it) even tough I did put the link in that paypal button. Let me check that again

[My First Game]

Thanks!

It's really easy... try the demo...

[My First Game]

It was written in blitzmax.

Now I'm hoping to start work on a Sudoku. That one will be more professional with nicer graphics and more fine-tunning.

[My First Game]

Thanks guys.

Yes it's not developed with LE and that's why it's an off-topic and not a show-case.

Developing it with LE would be a very bad idea. It's a simple game for casual gamers and most of them don't have such powerful computers.

@Laurens

Neither was I but I got hooked when playing a similar game. I'm actually playing my own game now and actually having fun (that's... weird, at least for me).

 

I'd like to publish it on steam but they haven't answered, neither gamehouse or bigfish.

 

Right now I'm just hoping to sell enough titles to be able to buy graphics for my next game(after I finish with some exams.. I just finished high-school).

 

EDIT: I changed the price to what you want... if you want to buy the game just type in the amount that you consider the game is worth.

[My First Game]

Hey guys. I just finished my first personal game. (out of the many I'm working on).

It's not a big one but I tried my best to make it work as nice as possible. There are currently no known bugs.

More info:

-5 Tile layouts with increasing difficulty(actual tiles are randomly generated)

-Hint button that shows all the pairs that can be eliminated

-Friendly help page where you can learn to play the game.

-Ability to make the game full screen and to mute the sound.

-Ability to change the background.

-Undo your mistakes.

I added some screen shots here:

Screen Shot 1:

Screen Shot 2:

Screen Shot 3:

Screen Shot 4:

Screen Shot 5:

 

It would mean a lot to me if you guys would buy it for what you want so I can actually buy a domain and make a normal website to add my future games(next incoming is a cool Sudoku).

Here is a link to a page where you can find more info.

Webpage

[This is the Reason Why Blender Fanatics Exist!]

I will never move from 3d Max to Blender. Tried it and it just seems so weird. I like a clean interface when professionally working

But yeah... nice feature!

[lua scripting in blide]

I guess file->New->Lua File then you save and compile (or just compile not sure). But that depends if you want to do some real work with blitzmax or c++ or just fool around in the editor.

[Multi Level Games - How Would You Implement...]

Here is my style of multi-level games:

 

Type Tapp
Global ResX:int 
Global ResY:int
Global Depth:int
Global FullScreen:Byte
Global game:TGame

Function Start()
End Function

Function Run()
End Function

Function LoadConfig()
End Function

Function SaveConfig()
End Function

Function LoadResources()
End Function
End Type

Type TGame
Field screen:TScreen

Method Initialize()
End Method

Method Draw()
End Method

Method Update()
End Method()
End Type

Type TScreen
Field elementList:TList 'by element I mean GUI objects
Field objectList:TList 'Basically everything that can be updated/Drawn
Field World:TWorld
Field Camera:TCamera


Method Initialize()
End Method

Method Draw() abstract
Method Update() abstract
End Type

Type TGameScreen extends TScreen
Field Level:TLevel
Field player:TPlayer

Method Draw()
End Method 

Method Update()
End Method 
End Method

Type TLevel
Field basePivot:TPivot
'A lot of other info about the level'

Function Load:TLevel(path:string)
End Function 
End Type

 

I hope this gives you an idea.

Basically that's why I'm saying people shouldn't start big projects before doing at least one normal casual game where they can learn these things.

[Back Where I Was 9 Months Ago]

Chillout! I'm sure there will always be support for Blitzmax. Even in LE3.x

[Laptop for Leadwerks Engine]

You know why? The guys who manufacture them use old parts or parts that have problems just to get them cheaper(why do you think they are 25-50% cheaper?). I know this from a guy that worked on the assembly line.

Frankly I'm looking at Asus G51J. A bit expensive but freaking hardcore in terms of performance and it's not bloated like those from Alienware.

[this engine]

Okay while I programm in C++ for the most I just have to say the you are an idiotic freak to say "Nobody uses Blitz for professional development." People got more money from blitzmax and blitz3D than your life will ever be worth. I had a job to do a clock with nice graphics. I did that in like 2 hours and I got around 250$. Look at Gray Alien games. The guy there programs his games in blitzmax and now works at Bigfish games.

Blitzmax supports a lot of nice features (language-wise) and even if it has a garbage collector it runs fast.

If I'd have to do a casual game I'd choose blitzmax FTW.

 

Tough I'd have to agree with you on some points. The support could be better on actual features not "How would I go to making burning building" or stuff like that. And Lumooja don't say that the support the fastest. Maybe that's because you have a source license but not everyone affords that.

 

Also yes indeed not many games have been made. The free ones can't even really be called prototypes and I wonder if even 5% from the games that people work on will hit the shelves. Still... give it time.

 

Once all the functions will work well it will be really nice to use it.

 

Btw guys if you want to develop a MMO check out Hero Engine. Awsome stuff there. Thinking of buying that just for the pleasure of having it.

[How does BlendTerrainTexture really work?]

I agree. I was unaware there was any problem until you pointed it out, so thank you.

You are welcome mate. Hopefully it will be fixed in the final LE2.32

 

About the camera pick and load/save heightmap I think it was on your email. Anyway I'll prepare a short demo to show you exactly what I'm talking about.

 

I'm using terrain created in the Leadwerks Editor, so essentially loaded from the saved heightmap during the LoadScene command.

Yeah I noticed people who load from the SandBox don't seem to have this problem. That code doesn't work at all on my terrain.

 

It's in C I know, but hopefully this might help.

I programm in C as well so that's not a problem

 

Thank you.

[How does BlendTerrainTexture really work?]

Hm.. and do you create the terrain youserlf or load it from a file? I create them myself but I have to reverse x and y for it to give the good results on screen.

If it's not too much to ask could you offer some snippets of code?(for the camerapick thing)

Thanks in advance.

[How does BlendTerrainTexture really work?]

Yes it may be a feature that nobody uses but if you claim on so many ads to have such a great terrain system then it has to be working. Am I not supposed to use a feature that's avaialbe just because other people don't use it?

No actual game will be made with the sandbox so developers will have to use the actual engine for this.

You haven't answered anything about the camerapick not working on terrains and neither on the loading/saving from file. These are vital parts of a game and they are not working.

I'll try your new function and tell you how it's working.

[Yet another flaw]

Good to know. Maybe Josh will upload a compiled version here so nobody has to search for it like me.

[Yet another flaw]

Thanks Lumooja. For some reason I tought internet archive does not store downloads.

But seriously.. A lot of people will need this sooner or later so it could be stored on this website(if the author aprooves it)

[Yet another flaw]

From what I understand from the wiki the only way to load a font is to create it with FontStudio. The software exists no more (I tried for like 2 hours to find a download) and thus I can't add Fonts to my interface. Because of the lack of a simple feature as ttf loading (and the "supported" one not working) there is currently no (documented) way of drawing a text with a certain font.

Font's are not documented under bitzmax. In c++ LoadFont returns a TFont but in blitzmax it returns a TGLFont.

[How does BlendTerrainTexture really work?]

I sent the textures to you by mail.

[Camera pick does not work on terrain?]

Yes I do have those swapped because otherwise it does not work at all.

I even had to make my rise/lower terrain functions that way because otherwise it doesn't work at all.

Look at this:

Method RiseTerrain(px:Float, py:Float, pz:Float, radius:Float, strength:Float)
For Local x:Int = px - radius / 2 To px + radius / 2
	For Local y:Int = pz - radius / 2 To pz + radius / 2
		Local d:Float = (radius / 2 - Dist2(px, pz, x, y))
		If d < 0
			d = 0
		EndIf
		Local h:Float = d / radius * strength / 1000.0
		If h < 0
			h = 0
		End If
		SetTerrainHeight(terrain, y + Width / 2, x + Height / 2, TerrainHeight(terrain, y + Width / 2, x + Height / 2) + h)
	Next
Next
UpdateTerrainNormals(terrain)
End Method

 

Notice this part "y + Width / 2, x + Height / 2, TerrainHeight(terrain, y + Width / 2, x + Height / 2) + h)". I just had to or it doesn't work right.

Geez there really has to be a tutorial about all the terrain features.