[Medkits no longer work and physics may be broken]

I think I downloaded them from the workshop

[Medkits no longer work and physics may be broken]

When you bring a medkit into Leadwerks as of the new beta, they float into the air when running the game.  Attaching this script makes Leadwerks crash to windows when trying to use the Medkit.

Script.health = 15.0 --float "Health"
Script.useOnce = true --bool "Use once"
Script.ReleaseTimer=0
Script.ReleaseDelay=5000--float "Corpse Time"

function Script:Start()
    if self.health < 0 then
        error("Health can't be a negative value.")
    end
end

function Script:UpdatePhysics()
    if self.ReleaseTimer ~= 0 and self.ReleaseTimer < Time:GetCurrent() then
       self.entity:Release()
    end
end

function Script:Use(player)
    if player.script.health < player.script.maxHealth then
        player.script:ReceiveHealth(self.health)
        if self.useOnce then
            self.entity:Hide()
            self.ReleaseTimer = Time:GetCurrent() + self.ReleaseDelay
        end
    end
end

This worked 100% in the stable version of Leadwerks 4.6.

Mike

[Realistic steam vent - how?]

I tried creating a steam vent in Leadwerks using particles and it just looks too blocky or bubbly (word?).  I want realistic thin whispy steam (like controlled fog) in a conical shape that seems to be seeping out from a pipe.

Any advice or presets for this?  If someone could just tell me what kind of particle and what settings would make this work would be a godsend!

Thank you.

Mike

[Make a hole in the ground?]

Actually, the elevator would be a level or you could use LE's excellent world builder to create a very large vertical shaft and then drop it very slowly to make it seem to go farther than it actually is.  You could use animated textures to also give the illusion of travelling down.  The shelter could be at the bottom.  If you want rocky walls, there are cave construction kits that have this in a modular fashion.

Look at www.arteria3d.com for excellent modular kits for Leadwerks.

Mike

[Voxel terrain terraforming]

Voxel terrain is a fantastic way to create caves, overhangs, cliffs and entire procedural games in some instances.  Look at products like VoxelFarm, which can be implemented at an extra cost for various games engines and has a SDK.

I would love to see Voxel Terrain implemented in Leadwerks.]

Mike

[Make a hole in the ground?]

What you are asking for is called voxel terrain.  Leadwerks does not have voxel terrain.

You COULD create a ground plane and then programmatically perform a CSG substraction for the hole (not sure if you can perform editor function in code).

But what you are really looking for is voxel terrain - which allows you to add or subtract terrain through the use of blobs - not to be confused with minecraft, which is a blocky version of voxel editing.  There are engines and tools to create voxel terrain, but only an engine would allow you to terraform in realtime.

For Unity:

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/8131

VoxelFarm:

http://www.voxelfarm.com/index.html

We can ask Josh if he can implement VoxelFarm into Leadwerks - right now it's available for Unity and Unreal out of the box and it does have a SDK.

That's about it - there are a LOT of solutions for Unity, but none for Leadwerks.  I, for one, would LOVE to see voxels implemented in Leadwerks.

Mike

[Poll: Third Person Camera]

Yep- I will pay for it.

Mike

[How can I make things float in water?]

Thank you.  I will try that.

[How can I make things float in water?]

I have instantiated water, but how do I have items have buoyancy?  I need debris to be in and floating on top of the water.

I'd also like to have the water greenish and hard to see through.  When I use the color picker and alpha values, I just get highly reflective water.  Is it possible to alter the water through programming?  Obviously, water is a big part of this level and Leadwerks has VERY limited water.  It would be great to have water with physics and lots of options (rivers, oceans, waves, etc).

Mike

[Camera fog??]

Thank you.  Got the fog working perfectly and the particles kick tushy!!!  Very atmospheric now.

Mike

[Underwater Shader]

Do you put these in each project's folder or in some main leadwerks folder somewhere for all projects?

Mike

[Camera fog??]

I'm looking to create a dark green fog that is very dense (sewer system), but I keep getting a too bright green when dense or almost no fog when I let up on the alpha value. I am confused as to HOW to get the RGBA values - it's not like I can grab them from photoshop and input them - they seems to be 0.v, 0.v, 0.v,0.v where v = some value. I know they are in order (R, G, B, A), but I have no idea how to get a specific color with this format.  How do I set this predictably?

Here is the code:

--Set Fog

    self.camera:SetFogMode(true)
    self.camera:SetFogRange (0,25)
    self.camera:SetFogColor (0,0.10,0,0.5)
    self.camera:SetFogAngle (0, 180)
    self.camera:SetClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0,0)

What is the correct settings for a very dark green dense fog (and i'd love floating particles in the air as well - how would I do this in Leadwerks?

Mike

[My attempt on water plane is garbage]

Would it be possible to create a low poly surface model whether inside Leadwerks with the built in modeler or outside Leadwerks and then apply a water shader to that and adjust amplitude and what not to create waves?

I wonder if it would be possible to define a under-water-like scene when going underneath the low poly surface with caustics and reduced gravity/physics - as if under water.  How would we best achieve this since Leadwerks does not have this...yet?

Mike

[VR enviroment]

My Alienware sitting in front of me has integrated eye tracking.  Can't wait to use it WITHOUT a headset.  I hate how confining the Vive is.

Mike

[My latest work (scifi textures 2.0) - scifi materials]

NICE!  Those look amazing.  I am working on sewer levels right now in Leadwerks and am getting that kind of quality, so I know it's possible.

Mike

[Character Controller not working]

TBH, this happened to me as well and I ended up copying and pasting the FPS player from the tutorial map into my new one.  That worked 100% for me.

Mike

[In FPS Player script there is room for crouch, but no crouch]

I would very much like my player to be able to crouch and in the FPS Player there seems to be a boolean variable for it, but I cannot seem to find a function for crouching.

Does one exist?

Mike

[How to instantiate fog?]

I know from reading the forums and docs that fog is part of the camera, but not sure how to turn it on/off, color it and set it's range, etc.

I am using the FPS player camera and there are no functions for fog in it.  Do I have to add it by hand?  Is there a set of code fragments on how to do this?

Also, does it work indoors?  I have a sewer system in place and I would love to have a bit of fog on the floor that is semi-transparent.  Can this be done and if so, how?

Thanks.

Mike

[Destroy-able Vegetation]

Or, you could model vegetation (say, a tree or some bushes), to be destroyed by cutting up the mesh into chunks (some modeling programs let you do this).

Then, place the normal veg and when hit, replace it in code with the destroyed veg (and I would have a bit of code that explodes the chunks and some particles to make it more exciting).

Mike

[VR enviroment]

Does that work with the Vive as well?

Mike

[How would I trigger an animation from a still figure?]

Ok, so here is my script:

Quote

function Script:Start()
    --Load a sound
    self.sound = Sound:Load("Sound/Characters/demonscream_mono.wav")
end

function Script:Collision(entity)

--Play an animation
    self.entity:PlayAnimation("screaming",0.05,500,1)

        if self.sound then
            --self.sound:Play()
            self.entity:EmitSound(self.sound,50,0.002,1,false)
        end

end

function Script:Release()
    --If the sound was loaded, release it now and set the variable to nil
    if self.sound then
        self.sound:Release()
        self.sound = nil
    end
end

 

So, it works, but it seems to loop the sound despite the boolean loop set to false.

Also, what is the difference between play() and emitsound?

If I use the self.sound:Play() then the volume is awfully loud! I cannot seem to set the volume or I am not doing it right.

The other command I can alter the volume but it seems to play it looped and temporally slow. I need to play as intended.

It's a roughly 8 second mono 44.1khz 16 bit wav file.

How can I use the self.sound:Play() and lower it's volume to say, 10% as a one-shot, not looped? How can it get softer in volume as the player moves away from the entity that the sound played from?

Mike

[How would I trigger an animation from a still figure?]

Thank you.  That worked perfectly. Now to attach a scary sound/scream to that animation.

Mike

[How would I trigger an animation from a still figure?]

Hi guys.  What is wrong with this:

Quote

function Script:Collision(entity)

--Play an animation
self:PlayAnimation("screaming",0.05,500,1)

end

 

I have this as a lua script. If you walk up to a figure, it's supposed to animate as a one-shot.  There is only one animation - 0 - called "screaming"

I get the following error when you walk up to the figure:

Quote

Script Error

attempt to call field 'PlayAnimation' (a nil value)

Line 4

 

What am I doing wrong?

Mike

[Scurrying rats]

No, I want them to go TO the player and keep following them.

Mike

[Scurrying rats]

I just want a bunch of rats scurrying around - very creepy.  I do have to figure out the animation frames, but in the end, I just want them upsetting the player but not hurting them.

Right now, the zombie ai script works but hurts the player and anything I attach that script to attacks once and then stops and just rotates around the player when you walk by an entity that already attacked you.  Very weird.

I was able to lower the amount of hurt to 1 and I assume a value of 0 will not hurt the player at all - but the rats (and spiders) just stop after - never to attack again.  I want them to stop for a moment or two and then come after you if you are close enough for them to 'see' you.

Mike