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+1 for notifications.

I come from the Blitz user base and what I have always liked is being able to buy a Template/framework. It can make things easier to learn, Sprite Candy, Grey alien framework and Ignition Framework all gave me good ideas and a better understanding of how things work. It would be great if there was some templates and maybe with LE3 hopefully getting on Steam it might pay to make some. Whether its in house or by a budding Grey Alien. Not sure if I would want them, I'm happy just tapping code in and hoping it works. then again I probably would buy a Template just to support Leadwerks. I w i was going to reply to this but you said it much clearer and better.

done.

Set Kinetic friction on the ground to 1.0 and don't give the ball a friction command. Not sure about absorbing the rebound power.

Values above 0 seems to register the same. 0 is like ice but setting it to 1 makes no difference than setting it to 100.

Thanks for the feedback. Icon graphics sound good, the traffic light system was temp. H for help will do, don't know what made me pick K.

Updated the download. I have cleaned up some code, it does seem to work better on my laptop. Still needs to run smoother though.

Good start to a game. Apart from the know physics bug the ball control was great. More textures would make a big difference. Couldn't go further than the map where you have to avoid being crushed. Assuming it is the last level for now. Its good to see these projects, it gives inspiration.

Great little game, can see you adding a lot more levels. This game would be perfect for tabs and phones. Had some of the issue already mentioned the only other one to add is I got the ball off the map so it just kept falling, needs to reset. I think it went through a wall. You could always add a marker to the power indicator to see what strength you had it the previous turn.

No time today but will take a good look at this over the weekend, thanks.

New demo uploaded, The gobbo's have 30 bones for animation. I'm not sure if thats a lot or not. I tested the game with the Goblins from Darkness Awaits, slightly better performance on my laptop.

I will upload a demo with FPS after work today. I thought it could be the models poly size so I reduced the polys. I will change the model and see what that does, it could be the animation like you say.

Did you remember to compile Release as well with VS2010.

I think the problems might have more to do with my code than the Lua garbage collector, I will have another look tonight. My laptop specs are CoreDuo T7250 2GHZ 2gig memory Nvidia 8700M GT 32bitVista. Not sure if the laptop is up to it. I would have thought Ricks PC would run fine though.

Thanks ParaToxic, A few issues need sorting before taking it further. I had some default lighting and then added a directional light. I will have a play with lighting a bit.

Using System:GetMemoryUsage() it seems my game demo is increasing memory usage. If i use Aily's code from the other thread in my main loop and lower 80 to around 10 it seems to keep the usage low. I get the idea of garbage collector but don't really understand how it works. I would imagine its my code, I have looked at my code to see if I can spot any obvious errors. Any ideas what I should look out for? I thought it might be the sound loading as I had a Sound:Load in the main loop but changed that and no change.

The installer is SmartPacker Pro http://www.smartpacker.nl/smartpackerpro.html. Hope the link is ok to do. Recommended and good customer service. I did put a direction light in when I had shadows on the Gobbo's. Not sure if I left it in. i will check when I'm back from work. I will look at this, I uploaded a demo with the CelShader added but without the shader the Gobbo you click is highlighted. I wonder if the Gobbo wasn't clicked on. I will upload the game without the Shader.

Thanks for testing. It can get a bit choppy on my laptop, I have a few idea's to hopefully get rid of it. I noticed Aily's post http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/6874-lua-and-used-memory-grow/ I wonder if that has anything to do with it. I need to clean the code up, I started this just seeing how to get an animated character to work and then just kept adding. This is not the way to make a game. Lua used. Consistant textures are needed, I thought the grass looked ok thoughts. Any thought anyone. Flat plane can be changed, looking forward to LE3 terrain.

New Update, cleaned up some code hopefully better performance. A small game being made to help me learn LE3 and Lua. I added Shadmar's Cel.Shader, to see what it would look like (not pictured). Needs more game play elements which I have planned. Sound effects need improving. Any comments appreciated. The Gobbo's change direction when they are within certain range of a pivot using the :DistanceToPoint command. On my laptop I noticed the Gobbo's take longer to turn round thus causing issues. I will have to change the way I do that.

I can see a new game coming 'High Dive' all it need is a small pool to drop them in, or even 'Stuntman' and place some boxes.

Yeah the Animation script has been redone without a Start() etc. As well as the require I think all that needed adding to the Start() of your entity code was self.animationmanager = AnimationManager:Create(self.entity) Also in your code where it would have said self.entity.animationmanager:SetAnimationSequence(self.sequence.idle,0.05,200) replace any self.entity with self. I have yet to look at flowgraphs but they do look intresting and I imagine i will use them a lot. I wonder if Aggror has done a tutorial

I did like mulitple scripts but if going away from that it was better to do it now rather than further down the line.

I agree with Rick ease of use for Lua users should be a must. Again i see why it is done this way though.

What you do know is attach one script then include other scripts from that one for example I attach a player script and the top line of that is require "Scripts/Animation/AnimationManager.lua" check the Darkness Awaits scripts.

Just updated looks good. A few changes are needed to my project but for the better.