[Official documentation]

I'm highly agree with Aggror about thumbnails and more visual guide lines..

[Net Wars]

now looks better. I think you need some Negetables for terrain!

[Net Wars]

looks fun! specially I like your terrain textures.

just some suggestions:

- balance saturation of whole scene. for example in your last shot, vehicles are too saturated rather than characters or terrain.

- maybe it would be better to arrange your army with "just a little" disorder.

 

keep it up

[Phy converter?]

a huge + for this (it would be better to post this in feature request )

[German Sektion]

I know that because here is the same.. but as you told there is no way to run away from learning english! so we should practice ourselves..

[German Sektion]

German language is like english..! I don't know why it's hard for Germans to speak english! I can suggest Persian section too!!

here is my suggestion to support other languages:

when you want to post a topic, or a reply to a topic, in advance mode, you have a other language text box.

so you define your target language, and post your description there too.

original post will be in english and in corner of each post we can have an icon to inform us if this post is available in other language.

hope you understand my mean..

if you don't I can describe more!

[Help me on Materials for cars]

thank you Lumoja,

2 more questions please:

- should we do this only in code? or is there any easier way to do this for someone like Game designer? as we tested we should do this with "loadmodel" command and it's hard for game designer to do this.

- should we detach glasses to separate GMF files or we can move a hierarchy of a model into foreground world?

[Soft Body Collisions]

I think it should be in LE3 as Josh wants to implement his own collision format..

[Help me on Materials for cars]

well we have some cars here and the primary material for their body is Diffuse+Normal+Specular+ some Gloss changes..

however it's not look like carpaint shader, but we are ok with that as we can't do anything else!

our biggest problem is glasses.

as far as I tested about this, we have 2 kind of transparency into engine. one of them uses only 0-1 in alpha channel of diffuse textures (mesh_diffuse_blabla_alphatest)in this case there is no problems during rendering or casting shadows or anything else.. but as this type is only for 0-1, so it should not use for glass like materials.

another kind of transparency is to use blend=alpha without using mesh_diffuse_blabla_alphatest in shader.

but this kind of transparency sucks when you want to use is as something like glass. it won't render terrain, some of models, shadows... (or maybe I can not use it correct)

this:

texture0="abstract::glasstest.dds"
clamp0=0,0,0
texture1="abstract::glasstest_nrm.dds"
clamp1=0,0,0
blend=alpha
depthmask=1
depthtest=1
overlay=0
zsort=0
cullface=0
castshadows=1
specular=2.50000000
bumpscale=0.300000012
gloss=0.250000000
shader="abstract::mesh_diffuse_bumpmap.vert","abstract::mesh_diffuse_bumpmap_specular_alphatest.frag"
shadowshader="abstract::mesh_shadow.vert","abstract::mesh_shadow.frag"

looks like this (only 0,1):

 

 

and this:

texture0="abstract::glasstest.dds"
clamp0=0,0,0
texture1="abstract::glasstest_nrm.dds"
clamp1=0,0,0
blend=1
depthmask=1
depthtest=1
overlay=0
zsort=0
cullface=0
castshadows=1
specular=2.50000000
bumpscale=0.300000012
gloss=0.250000000
shader="abstract::mesh_diffuse_bumpmap.vert","abstract::mesh_diffuse_bumpmap_specular_alphatest.frag"
shadowshader="abstract::mesh_shadow.vert","abstract::mesh_shadow.frag"

looks like this:

 

 

(but WHY?? )

This is my diffuse texture

and

This is my normal texture

and I can not use these for glasslike models.

but as I can see emitters are using transparent dust, I'm looking for something like that in normal shaders to use them as car glass shader which needs cullface for car inside too..

 

and alphatest results on car, looks like this:

 

 

and I'm too tired to make blend=alpha again! but it was worse than it's 2d plane!

finally any kind of tips or suggestions to improve car shaders would be helpfull here.

[STRANDED - The Game (WIP)]

really bad news pixel.. I wish the best for you and your project. you are the most perfect pixel I've ever seen!

[sad..]

I think leadwerks needs more and more and even more staffs for engine development and support..

I really don't want to discuss each 5-6 months with my team members about same topic..

Josh, I know that you are trying very hard. but believe me, you are not enough.

[Zero Hour]

and my request sent too

[Is this specular?]

So here is the point for now: (as it seems the problem is in 2.31 and I can't go to 2.32x)

if something is unusually specular in your scene, reduce directional light's intensity!

[Is this specular?]

but Dave is using his own road textures without any problems (I'm checking his blog right now).. I can't find out what is wrong with my texture

or maybe he is using different version of LE? (I'm in 2.31)

[Is this specular?]

yes I did..

I'm going to think about this as an engine bug..

[Is this specular?]

I think my roads are always specular.. (I can't trust my eyes after 11 hours of modeling and texturing!)

almost checked any way I could imagine.. with pure black alpha channel in normal texture, with pure white alpha channel in normal texture, using only diffuse shader, or even reducing shininess of terrain texture!

so what do you think?

mesh_diffuse:

 

mesh_diffuse_bumpmap_specular:

 

all damn results are exactly like these damn shots!

is there anyone with same problem?

 

PS. I need this emergency, so if you know "anything" related, please let me know..

[Aerora]

great Job Ubu..

whole scene looks awesome and character motions seems to need little more work..

[download problem]

it seem the only problem is for that file.. I can download other files

[Select Elements in model viewer]

As described in topic, I want to select elements(or hierarchies)in model viewer, and I want model viewer to select equivalent element in it's hierarchy list.

if you need reasons for this, I can easily list some of them..

[zrLEHelper]

It should be VERY usefull.. thanks dude

[AutoBillboard post effects]

only diffuse texture changed in second image.. actually I didn't even checked whether normal texture has alpha channel!

however I don't think this change results. because all billboards were the same color. and normally they were not in correct direction to reflect sunlight..

I have plan to paint some back paints on them these days. then I will play with specular channel too.

 

thanks for the point..

 

Edit: I didn't checked for other lighting environments. but I will..

[Download trouble?]

download and installation completed. stopped 3 times during download, but I don't know if problem was about my connection or not.

[Download trouble?]

still after 54% no problem here..

[Helle everyone]

welcome SmokingCloud

happy leadwerking!

[Version 2.32r4]

new editor removes my phy files and replace them with convex hull.. should I redo all of my phy files AGAIN??

[AutoBillboard post effects]

I can change "vegetation_billboard" image myself and results looks little better..