[Free VR Gear S8]

I gave it a go last week with my kids and found it... well amazing. Sure the art was low poly for the apps I tried, but it felt like you left the room with it on. I tried a planet sim which the movement of the space ship made me feel off ballance even though I was sitting down I still had to take the head set off.

 

I havent experienced a the Vive or alike so I can't compare it to anything like that. A week on and it's sitting in a box along side my 3D printer and mocap gear that I don't have time for =). Cool for a free add on though and the s8+ is awesome.

[Character Controllers Ignoring Each Other]

Just a thought could you modify the collision response between characters in code?

 

PhysicsDriver::GetCurrent()->SetCollisionResponse(Collision::Character, Collision::Character, 0);

 

I don't know if that would work, but might be worth a try.

[Animation Bone Scaling]

I like your thinking, but the rings holding it on the rail would compress too unfortunately.

[Animation Bone Scaling]

For the purposes of my current task its for the sliding open/close of a shower curtain using scale it bunches up nicely. Basicly I had the animation done in 2 minutes and it looked great. Now I'm using move and adjusting the weight values which is impossible to get right without any clipping issues. I'd also like to use it on some of the fingers in some fps animations, for little adjustments. I know doing that isn't very realistic, but as long as it looks right, it dosen't matter. I'm pretty confident I'll need it in the future for models not yet developed

 

I understand it's not a very common thing to do, but I think the exported animation should be true to what I'm seeing in a modeling program and should be free to use it.

[Animation Bone Scaling]

Thanks gamecreator for the info.

 

Together with bones being pruned and now realised animating scale doesn't work, I'm struggling with the workarounds I have to do. Now that i'm animating more heavily than before.

 

I'd expect that what I export is what I get in LE, why would I want anything else? Is it possible to rectify these issues please Josh?

 

If you need a test file let me know.

[Animation Bone Scaling]

Hi Josh,

 

Animated scaling of a bone in Akeytsu works as expected but when imported into LE only the move and rotate works. Is scaling of a bone not allowed in LE and is intended behaviour or is this a bug?

[Free VR Gear S8]

I dont claim to know anything about VR so excuse this post if it is a bit noobish. The Galaxy s8 is around the corner and in most stores if you pre order you get a VR kit with it http://www.roadtovr.com/get-free-gear-vr-controller-galaxy-s8-pre-orders-offer-lasts-420/ .

 

Was going to get an s8+ anyway so this is pretty cool. I'm not sure of it's use though? Will it be any good? Would this only be for mobile viewing? or could it be used somehow in conjunction with Leadwerks? A lot of peope are going to have one of these by the end of the month. It's a tech I've never looked into, but seeming i'll be getting one of these, now I'm curious.

[What Happened to Terrain Tessellation?]

Good to know. If it's not a supported feature then I'll stay away. It would definitely be a welcome feature to have back in the future.

[What Happened to Terrain Tessellation?]

I remember using this and looked amazing, then it was removed. Are we ever going to see this back again?

 

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/blog/1/entry-1501-terrain-tessellation/

[Marmoset Toolbag 3]

While I'm downloading the trial just wanted to ask. Has anyone used the Marmoset Toolbag 3? https://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/

 

 

It's not a modeler, forget it =(.

[Resize Bug]

Have you tried deleting the .phy file of the rock and re importing?

[Entity drag handles (colored arrows) are not showing.]

Maybe the rotation gizmo might be reborn with proper rotation handles.

[Model editor Collapse]

If you have a model with a collisionmesh attached and you use the collapse function. The 'collisionmesh' child is removed and collision is removed using that method.

[Terrain Vegitation Scale]

Would be good if there was a min and max scale slider for vegitation. The variation available is nice, but i'd like more control over it.

[SetInput]

Just checked one of my projects, I can confirm this also.

[Enemy Z]

Enemy Z

 

Introducing our Winter Games project "Enemy Z" by Rick Shad and Tim

 

Very few remain since the Z outbreak and day to day survival depends on your skill as a leader. Your task is to arm your survivors; fortify your postion with obsicles, explosives and traps; assist your survivors during the battle. Plan and defend well and you may just survive the hoards that await and find gear imperitive to your survival.

 

Enemy Z came about the idea of reuse of code and models from previous projects to quickly prototype a new game. The creation of this game has been quite rewarding as we have seen a lot of progress in a short amount of time for example, content from our 'Dead Anyway' and 'Cobra' project code from 'urWorld', 'Dino Land' and others.

 

There are still vast amounts we want to do and we still have a long list of new features and content we would like to have in, but see how we go in the time frame.

 

Overview

 

Survivor placement: Right click a character and move him to a different location.

 

Fortify:

- Cycle and rotate items to scatter around the scene and impede or destroy zombies.

- Select between a wooden barricade, concrete barricade, cardboad box, and explosive propane tank.

 

Wave Start:

- Click the start button to begin the zombie wave.

- Clicking on a character will cycle beweeen their primary and secondary weapon.

- Survivors will automatically target the zombies, but is up to the player when to weapon cycle or click

on explosive objects to detonate.

- Survive all waves to complete the level

 

Map: Once level is completed the map screen will load

WIP

[Spritesheets and prefabs]

Thanks for looking into that!

[Shadows acting weird]

The exact thing happens to me too, however I forgot to report it. The issue has gone through many driver updates. Nvidia card also.

[Shadmar removed his shader pack from Steam?]

Aren't there defaults for bloom and godrays shaders now in the post folder? pretty sure they are.

[Another Substance Integration Post]

Latest Innovations from Allegorithmic.

 

https://www.allegorithmic.com/blog/go-scan-world-photogrammetry-smartphone

 

As this suite gets better and better the future of game texturing is changing.

 

Can we have the future fully integrated please?

[Akeytsu]

Ended up getting a licence, although it's still in it's infancy this program is fantastic and will be using it now for animations.

[Akeytsu]

I tried it out quickly with an exported model; quick rig; and a couple of animations done in Akeytsu and appears it all export nicely. Still quite a few features I haven't looked through yet.

[Akeytsu]

Doesn't look like it imports mocap data just yet, once it does, i'd be interested for sure.

[Modular Character Setup]

Thanks for all the info guys appreciate it. @Phoenix88 your solution sounds like what I'm after, thank you!

[Modular Character Setup]

Hi

 

I'm trying to work out how to have separate parts of a character so they can be shown/hidden for clothing changes.

 

In Modo I can:

 

1) Create a rig assign a mesh to the rig. (Main body)

2) Assign another mesh to the same rig. (Deform able Armour)

 

This in theory would allow me to show/hide the armour mesh.

 

When I export the setup out to fbx and is imported into Leadwerks with both meshes export but, they have been collapsed to a single mesh when viewed in the model editor and when added to the scene. So now I loose that show/hide functionality.

 

Is it possible to export multiple mesh entities with the same skeleton? or in fact know of a better way to handle a modular character?