[Google Hangout 5-27 at 1:00 PST]

Can anyone recap the mtg? Thanks.

[Any users in Toronto, GTA area?]

Was thinking it might be a good idea to meet with fellow werkers out in TO. To exchange tips and tricks and help each other out over a drink or smth.

[Valve announces Steam Audio, a physics-based audio library]

They're pretty fast. Just last month they bought Impulsonic - guys who developed this. And already this month it's rebranded and released as Steam Audio

 

https://uploadvr.com/valve-acquires-3d-audio-company-impulsonic/

 

I've looked at it. It's great but in my opinion bit of an overkill for the type of games Leadwerks users are creating. Let's be honest sound aspect is very neglected in this neck of woods.

["Add Selection To Flowgraph" Menu Addition]

I can hear Josh's voice in my head saying "this doesn't necessarily translate to more games being made with Leadwerks" that's why it's on the backburner for so many years.

["Add Selection To Flowgraph" Menu Addition]

You might want to follow this thread. None of those requests have been implemented as of yet:

 

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/12529-improvement-in-flowgraph-editor/

[The game is darker on every computer that's not mine?]

Different brand? I know when I switch from AMD and Nvidia, I always saw a brightness/contrast level difference in games.

 

It might be. I remember back in 2005 I had an Nvidia card when playing GTA San Andreas. It failed one day and we swapped it with a comparable ATI/AMD model. Without changing any in-game settings the graphics looked completely different. ATI was way more sharper and cleaner yet darker as it had more contrast. I'm pretty sure things are different these days but it's a possibility.

[Modify Texture Slot Names]

Good suggestion!

[Is My GPU supportet? 630M]

Works just fine.

[What are you working on :]

Quake?

[Keyboard Shortcuts W/E/R]

Read this: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/blog/1/entry-1647-very-low-level-advancements/

[Decals]

It's in the FPS shooter template.

[object deformations....and other problems..]

1,2: This is not yet supported. The community has requested vertex editing and slice numerous times - lets hope it gets implemented soon.

 

3,4: Prefabs (*.pfb files) can only be made in Leadwerks editor but the prefab it self can contain both models and CSG brushes. Prefabs are simply Leadwerks maps with .pfb extension. You can re-open them and edit. To group objects you either need to make pivot object and make everything else children of the pivot. Or you pick any object and child the rest under it.

 

5: Grouping was once implemented but proved to be buggy and inconsistent. It has been removed and not supported/implemented since then. Currently the only way to group entities is to do the child/parent thing I mentioned above.

[Shifting textures]

If you use texture locking on your prefabs and the textures shift after moving the prefab you most likely hit the prefab texture bug: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/10208-initial-move-of-a-texture-locked-prefab-shifts-texture/

[Cant move or look around in scene]

It's a well known issue. It happned to bunch of people some time ago. I don't know what fixed it for me. Wasd and mouse controls suddenly stop working for the perspective window. Reinstalling Steam, Leadweks, video drivers didn't help. I suspect it was some kind of Windows update related issue since it started working again few days later without my interferance. Search the forums, there was an exact bug report, maybe a year ago.

[Bit of trouble with Prefabs]

Texture lock does the magic of keeping the textures locked on CSG brushes while you move them around (there's a button on the toolbar). However in its current state texture lock fails to do that with prefab objects. Welcome to the club, we all are waiting for a fix.

[What are you working on :]

Trying to remake an old game I wrote in DBPro. It's based on the Cube (1997) movie. The prefab texture issue is giving me a real headache. I will need to put this aside since the textures can get screwed up even by simply reloading the map.

 

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/368535525664117679/945A57903FF3FB8C98293327A16B6A2B2EE52BDF/

[Initial move of a texture-locked prefab shifts texture]

Can we have a final decision on this? It has been a while and this issue is really preventing me from reusing any CSG assets.

[Prefab textures bug]

Additionally, I have this weird texture corruption bug that happens to complex (with many CSG brushes) prefabs. Again, it does this only when the prefab instance is rotated and moved. In this case I have made a Cube map and move one of the rotated prefab walls and it corrupts the textures beyond repair. A new prefab instance needs to be used. It is really frustrating since I have tried making this level nearly 2 years ago and encountered the same issue. Shame this hasn't been dealt with since (and I did report numerous texture bugs).

 

[Prefab textures bug]

Add the attached caulk prefab object to an empty map. Now move or rotate it. Letters will "slide" off the brush face. Texture lock is enabled.

 

prefab.zip

 

[In-engine vertex editing]

Very clever, nice!

[Viewport face/object painting]

+1, I like the sound of this.

[Weird texture effect]

And hair, don't forget about the tesselated hair!

[Evochron Legacy is out]

Wasn't that the famous game made with good old Dark Basic Professional?

[[solved] jpg extension not allowed]

For textures you are allowed to upload only Leadwerks .tex files.

[Disable depth testing on weapons]

Thanks. At least now I have an easy solution.