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You're right it works now with "if scene=nil then", no more message in the log window maybe vista was locking the sbx file I feel more at home with pascal than lua yet, so when something goes wrong i panic Thank you

I'm testing lua and i have the same kind of problem (a black screen) with this code --Register abstract path RegisterAbstractPath("D:\Leadwerks\LPisland") --Set graphics mode if Graphics(1024,768)==0 then Notify("Failed to set graphics mode.",1) return end --Create framewerk object and set it to a global object so other scripts can access it framework=CreateFramework() if framework==nil then Notify("Failed to initialize engine.",1) return end SetGlobalObject("framewerk",framework) camera=framework.main.camera scene=LoadScene("abstract::islands3.sbx") if scene==nil then AppLog('***************** NULL') return end light=CreateDirectionalLight() light:SetRotationf(45,45,0) while AppTerminate()==0 do framework:Update() framework:Render() Flip(0) end the console says ***************** NULL and the script ends. - if i use "abstract::tunnels.sbx" like gordon it works. - my RegisterAbstractPath is correct and points to my islands3.sbx directory - islands3.sbx spelling is correct, and the path "D:\Leadwerks\LPisland" also. - the same kind of code in pascal works fine, only my full lua experiment fails - if i specify the full path like scene=LoadScene("D:\Leadwerks\LPisland\islands3.sbx") i still get the ********* NULL console message Can someone try to do a LoadScene from a custom sbx file located elsewhere than in LE maps folder ? if you have ideas how to solve this, you're welcome i also wonder how actionsnake is loading it's sbx files ? i did not find any loadscene in actionsnake lua files ? Thank you EDIT : okey it's m fault , it works, the camera is just misplaced and i should not have tested "if scene==nil then", but rather "if scene==0 then" or maybe "if scene==nul then" because CreateFramework returns a pointer ... and loadscene a handle.

For me firepit particle works now ! thanks i also get marléy's heat haze issue with water, but it's wysiwyg and exactlty the same in the editor and outside.

Thanks Josh ! Very fast like always i synced 2.3 and it works much better now. Except for Macklebee's problem, the firepit's fire particle is still not showing. can you do something about this also ? Many Thanks

+1 i agree, a wisywyg editor is what i was expecting also discovered this last week, but did not understand exactly why it was not working. i also agree, workarounds will lead to complications because we will have to remove them once it works like expected, and this can be a difficult task when the code grows. Not to mention it'll be frustrating ... because things that worked one way will no more and request redesign.

is this feature related to this issue ? http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/topic/480-removing-null-framewerk-message/page__hl__null framewerk__fromsearch__1 do you mean C++ and lua code can share the same framework ? layer worlds and cameras can be created in c++ and used in lua ? or the opposite ? will you provide a sample tutorial of mixing c++ code and lua ? for example loading the scene with lua to get exact same result as the editor and running the game with c++ ? EDIT: okay, i finally understood, it's about the new framework commands included in the LE header. And i got some explanations on how it works in the Getting_Started_With_Lua.pdf tutorial. For me it's a good,solution , because i don't want to modify the framewerk... but i still wonder how others will be able to mod the framewerk now ? i don't understand how its possible ?

No Delphi is based on Pascal, but delphi is much more than just a pascal compiler. It's a complete class library encapsulating the whole windows API. A complete library of professional components with properties an event driven architecture. A RAD (Rapid Application Developement) environnement (like visual basic) for high productivity. It's also an utra-fast compiler (The chief architect behind Delphi compiler was Anders Hejlsberg) and a fantastic debugger. The name Delphi was chosen in reference to oracle datadase who was the leading professionnal database in 1995. The goal was to promote the "professionnal" aspect of the product. Delphi is based on Pascal, and Pascal was used as an educational language because of his strict syntax and high readability of source code, they tryed to break the educational image of Pascal by renaming it Delphi instead of "Visual pascal". There are many little pascal compilers out there, some of them are "object pascal" compilers and follow Delphi. The most famous one is freepascal (http://www.freepascal.org/) because "Project Lazarus" (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/) started rewritting the whole class library and components to match Delphi capabilities, and is based on Freepascal. Compared with Delphi, Lazarus is less stable (and personnaly i find Lazarus debugger totally unusable) and less well-documented. However, Lazarus has multi-platform capability and can run from a USB flash drive. To use the Leadwerks header "object pascal" is not required, any simple pascal compiler is enought. to use the Leadwerks Framewerk an "object pascal" capable compiler with full component class hierarchy is need. Only Delphi and the Team Lazarus+FPK (freepascal is also known as FPK) can do the job. According to wikipedia the original Pascal language was born at Apple Computers, Apple dropped support for Object Pascal when they moved from Motorola 68K chips to IBM's PowerPC architecture in 1994. Today Delphi is leading, and alone, therefore defining the new standards for the "object pascal" with each release of Delphi.

Hi, all. The header generator and 1.03 framewerk were posted in the old forum here are three threads of interest : - the latest header generator. I have checked the header generator with 2.3, it's OK. http://forum.leadwerks.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5621&p=47578&hilit=purebasic#p47578 - my opensource 1.03 pascal Framewerk Never tryed it with delphi you'll have to tell me the issues you encounter. very simple implementation, everything is public. http://forum.leadwerks.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5622&p=48584&hilit=framewerk#p48584 I have plans to create a framewerk component and encapsulate private methods and publish properties but it's not done yet, anyway it's less comfortable but still very usable. - Some screenshots using the Framewerk with Freepascal/Lazarus http://forum.leadwerks.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5820&p=49143&hilit=own+map#p49143 Notice the nice render of the godrays ... water, bloom, HDR, fog ... i think framewerk is a MUST HAVE, that's why i did the job. But you can go on without it. You'r all welcome to contribute I'll repost the header generator here if i find the time, meantime get them there

Will you still answer open questions there or will you never go back there and we do we have to repost our question here ? because i have a question left here http://forum.leadwerks.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4042