[Preload all game models?]

A thread safe loading of resources would be really a nice headshot for MMOs, e.g. I love the scene loading of AVA where you see the loading progress of you and the others.

[Preload all game models?]

Since I am working on a MMORPG I'm thinking to try loading the models at player's range (which is not the view range but higher) and mantain an hashtable to let me copy if already loaded.

[Preload all game models?]

What is the common way of working with the models loading, preload all game models once at game loading and then just CopyEntity them or loading them when they are in the player's range?

[[SOLVED] Fantasy Trees from Dexsoft Multimedia]

Well I have solved now re-creating the DDS from TGA using MakeDDS (save mipmaps, DXTC5), before they were converted using GIMP2. The MAT I used is the same as MG said.

[[SOLVED] Fantasy Trees from Dexsoft Multimedia]

I don't have the shader mesh_diffuse_sway.vert, the only is mesh_diffuse_bumpmap_sway.vert... I tried to use mesh_diffuse_alphatest.frag instead of mesh_diffuse_bumpmap_specular_alphatest.frag but the result is the same.

[Newbie Programmer]

This is the thread for C++ code

[[SOLVED] Fantasy Trees from Dexsoft Multimedia]

That works nice for the trunk, but on the branches there are only some flying leaves.

 

[C# SVN]

What is wrong with a public SVN? Since an official complete wrapper is not part of the engine, then I think the best way to enhance it is as public repository and hope that most people post issues/solutions instead of just download it and change theirselves without supporting the project. For license question we don't release engine libraries, so if you don't have them then the source of a wrapper is unuseful (as told by someone else, I still think that even if you find the engine from torrent/rapidshare I'm quite sure you will buy it if you like to work... and yes a version of the engine 2.30 is available on some upload sites, I don't remember the link now, I will forward it to Josh if I'll find).

[[SOLVED] Fantasy Trees from Dexsoft Multimedia]

Is there someone who bought the Fantasy Tree pack on Dexsoft Multimedia? I'm converting the models to GMF but I don't know what should be the MAT content for both textures and shaders.

 

Additional textures are supplied for normal, height and spec maps.

 

What I'm using (not working):

texture0="abstract::Leaf_DF.dds"
texture1="abstract::Leaf_N.dds"
texture2="abstract::Leaf_S.dds"
texture3="abstract::Leaf_H.dds"
shader="abstract::mesh_diffuse_bumpmap.vert","abstract::mesh_diffuse_bumpmap_specular.frag"

 

The result was this:

 

[LE C# Scripting Project]

I'd work with XML file to store rather than force the user to install any database engine (MS SQL Server, MySQL or SQLite), since it works good with serialization/deserialization.

 

If you go on the way of network communication I suggest the library Lidgren Network for fast UDP implementation, but the best for usability would be the all in one program of course.

[Get the current drawing font]

I ended up making a GameFont class as a wrapper for the 2D font drawing. Once you change from the default font there's no obvious way to get it back. I don't think your missing anything.

I can do it manually as you told: a wrapper class and use that for font loading/setting/getting, I can easily do it directly in the C# wrapper source but a proper engine method could be useful to all languages.

[LE C# Scripting Project]

No success with any debug information (Debug.Entities, Debug.Physics, Framework.StatisticMode), unfortunately the control seems to lack of many useful things (see the other post, I reported also a problem with physics in a scene).

[Framework.StatisticsMode with LETKControl]

The reason it fails seems to be the LUA object initialization in the method Framework.Initialize: if I pass FALSE to not enable LUA then the scene and the model are shown when calling Framework.Update + Framework.Render, but when I pass TRUE to enable LUA then the screen appears black and no scene/models are drawn.

 

Another thing I don't succeeded to do have working physics: loading a scene and a body from a mesh (I used the Crawler model from the tutorials) it doesn't fall to the terrain even if it has Mass=1 and GravityMode=1 and World.Gravity=new Vector3(0,-20,0)

[LE C# Scripting Project]

This would be interesting if the standard Editor doesn't like. For the embedded control I tried to load a simple scene and some meshes and it seems to work when Framework is not used. The reason it fails seems to be the LUA object initialization in the method Framework.Initialize (if I pass FALSE to not enable LUA then the scene and the model are shown when calling Framework.Update + Framework.Render).

[Get the current drawing font]

I see no methods which returns a pointer to the current font set, so it is a bit boring to build a GUI with different fonts.

 

What I would like to do for any control on the GUI is to store the current font, change to the one used for the control and then restore the previous.

[C# SVN]

SVN updated for bugfix:

- Basic Controller constructor updated with the default values (using the default contructor the collisions vs Terrain with a loaded Scene did not work and the controller fell through the terrain).

 

PS: Josh can you pin this thread so that we can use for SVN updates announces?

[[SOLVED] Problems with FileSystem]

This issue is solved with the SDK 2.32

[LE draw context inside picture box?]

If you are using 2.32 (or even the latest 2.31) and then re-added reference to the latest Leadwerks.DLL then you may experience some access violation because of some changes to the functions definition (may be those I already updated to the wrapper but not on the control). I will test the control in a few hours and then I may help you in this

[C# SVN]

The latest headers from the klepto2's release is those on SVN, I have updated them with the last 2.31 function definition changes. The getting started tutorial on wiki should work also with the SVN release.

[LE draw context inside picture box?]

You must download from the repository with some SVN tools like TortoiseSVN, then go to Source section of that web space. You should be able to update from SVN even if anonymous user.

[C# vs C++ app speed]

Ubu said that he was losing only few FPS on C#, that's why I am currently riding this way.

[Third Person Camera]

Yes the "Scripts" folder (and may be the shaders.pak if you use it, not sure for this) should ever be in the game executable folder, even if you register the SDK folder as abstract path.

[LE draw context inside picture box?]

On SVN there is a project "Leadwerks Forms Tests" in which a LETKControl is used to render.

[C# SVN]

The headers on SVN should be now updated to 2.31

 

Known issues:

- AccessViolationException raised in Core.AbstractPath()

 

(Bug reported in Issues on Google Code, it would be easier to use that for official bug reporting with possible link to a specified thread)

[C/C++, Lua, and Framework all working together]

I suppose with GetEntityKey and SetEntityKey