[Leadwerks Engine Source ?]

A Source License. You have to mail Josh about pricing.

[Alpha Dithering and Billboards]

You have to fix the .dds textures with the Leadwerks makedds.exe tool. Its just two clicks.

[Ocean Water Envy]

That looks very impressive Michael! In games I never feel it needs to be totally realistic, just real enough to not have the player question it. I guess the same is true with Architectural presentations.

 

Yes arch-viz demands for realstic output or very artistic. There is nothing in between it in most cases. At the moment all those real-time viz products have the problem beeing judged and compared with VRay and other offline-render. THis is funny to read sometime.

[What do you do for work IRL?]

Beside Pure3d I work still part-time as a students conselor at our University where I studied and made my degree. I help people finding their way through the djungle here or help them if they have trouble with their workload and so on. I think its called "Student Advisory Service" in english.

 

I don't need to do it from the economic point of view but I love working with persons and sitting all the day at the computer on my own is a bit boring. But mostly my 31 days of holiday a year are spent working on my 3D projects if I have a tight deadline. I need to work in the evenings for Pure3d because of the time zones so I can do the University job in the morning here.

[Ocean Water Envy]

I really like the water update the Lumion guys do with their DX9 arch-viz engine: http://vimeo.com/22124363

WIll be released in May hopefully so I can get my hand on it. This in LE would be nice too for game-devs I think.

 

People always make a mystery out of water in games hehe.

[Skin design notes]

Didn't read the doc but I think the asset store should go into a own menu item into the top menu like home, products, etc... so everybody can see it.

[what do you want see in leadwerks 3.0]

I want to see a Material Editor with customisable UI and integrated shader editor! Do I get it?!

 

Sorry but it's like knowing the lottery numbers of the future hehe.

[Stereoscopic rendering in LE]

Nice what this guy does.

[Stereoscopic rendering in LE]

Just out of curiosity (and because its cool hehe): Is it possible to set up the editor for stereoscopic rendering red/cyan?

 

I think it's nice for special cases only but I would like to know how this would be done interally in a renderer? Just a shader? Or what is it?

[Day to Night cycle script (wip)]

The sun is shining under the terrain if I set it very early. So my models get lit from beneth.

[Problems with camera fly-through]

Okay I set it up and it helps but the path is just a zig-zag from node to node.

But the camera is aimed to the rotation I've set.

 

Is there a way to get rid of the zig-zag course? I played with

 

local tension=EntityDistance(currentnode,nextnode)*0.5

 

which reduces the zig-zag but its acting wired if a new node is reached.

[Problems with camera fly-through]

Maybe I have problems understanding the script stuff. Sorry for that.

 

But the script you posted looks very different then mine. My script looks like it creates a renderbuffer and such stuff. Camera flyby plus serial screenshot function in one script.

Your script seem to look like the flythrough.lua and also modification to the node. I understand the node modifications but not how to integrate your flythorugh.lua into my script which creates the renderbuffer and so on.

 

Thats the point I still don't get.

[Problems with camera fly-through]

And how would it look if its integrated into my source script I posted in my first post?

So I get my screenshot series recorded.

[Problems with camera fly-through]

Thanks this is really dirty but a creative solution.

 

I can't use a manual rotation because the script writes 30 sreenshots per second and I won't be able to rotate smoothly.

 

Here is a screenhsot of what I need.

 

 

Camera needs to view along the blue axis but should follow the spline along the street to the next node.

[Environment_Options]

tried it and thought i would be able to set the strenght of the options hehe. Like amount of godrays or bloom....

[Problems with camera fly-through]

I'm a bit in trouble. Need to finish a movie fly-through for a client this weekend but the script lacks of some important stuff.

 

It seems the camera is just following the view to the next camera_node.

So all I can do is a straight view but not left and right. If i rotate the node a bit to the left or right the camera does a wide curve.

 

But it should fly straight the the next node and just "look" to the side on a certain angle. I would like to have a option where I can set certain degree for "looking" left and right.

 

 

Any ideas?

 

This is the script:

Attention it drops a lot of large screenshots to the HDD which will be a movie later. Maybe using the fly-through.lua would be better.

require("Scripts/linkedlist")
require("Scripts/spline")
require("Scripts/constants/keycodes")
require("Scripts/constants/engine_const")

HideMouse()
FlushMouse()
FlushKeys()

local dummy = LoadModel( "abstract::info_camera_node.gmf" )
local node
local currentnode
if dummy~=nil then
for node in iterate(dummy.reference.instances) do
	if node:GetKey("starthere")=="1" then
		currentnode=node
		break
	end
end
dummy:Free()
end

if currentnode==nil then
Notify("No starting camera node found!")
return
end

local nextnode=currentnode:GetTarget()

if nextnode==nil then
Notify("At least two camera nodes are required.")
return
end

local tension=EntityDistance(currentnode,nextnode)*0.5
local spline=CreateSpline(currentnode.position,currentnode.mat:K():Scale(tension),nextnode.position,nextnode.mat:K():Scale(tension),0.75)
local splinelength = spline:Length()

fw.main.camera:SetMatrix(currentnode.mat)

local n=0.0
local frame=0
local odd=0

local buffer=CreateBuffer(1920,1080,BUFFER_COLOR)
SetBuffer(buffer)
local buffer2=CreateBuffer(1920,1080,BUFFER_COLOR)

while KeyHit(KEY_ESCAPE)==0 do

if n>=1.0 then
	currentnode=nextnode
	nextnode=currentnode:GetTarget()
	if nextnode==nil then
		Notify("Finished")
		break
	end
	tension=EntityDistance(currentnode,nextnode)*0.5
	spline=CreateSpline(currentnode.position,currentnode.mat:K():Scale(tension),nextnode.position,nextnode.mat:K():Scale(tension),0.75)
	n=0.0
	splinelength=spline:Length()
end

p=Vec3(0)
t=Vec3(0)
n = n + 0.01*1.0/splinelength*10.0
spline:Interpolate(n,p,t)

--MoveMouse(GraphicsWidth()/2,GraphicsHeight()/2)

fw.main.camera:SetPosition(p)
fw.main.camera:AlignToVector(t,3,0.05*1.0)



fw.main.world:Update(1.0)
fw.transparency.world:Update(1.0)

SetBuffer(buffer)

fw:Render()
--DrawText(AppSpeed(),100,0)

Flip(0)
local name

odd=odd+1
if odd==2 then
	odd=0
	if frame<1000 then
		if frame<100 then
			if frame<10 then
				name="frame000"..frame
			else
				name="frame00"..frame
			end
		else
			name="frame0"..frame
		end
	else
		name="frame"..frame
	end


	SetBuffer(buffer2)
	DrawImage(GetColorBuffer(buffer),0,0,1920,1080)
	SaveBuffer(buffer2,name..".tga")

	frame=frame+1
end

--SetBuffer(BackBuffer())
--fw:Render()
--Flip(0)

end

ShowMouse()

[ADN Materials editor 1.1 R3 is out (update 08/26/2010)]

Tried to use cubemaps on a car paint material but it failed.

Editor crashes with this message: Error: Shader file "abstract::AP_diffuse_cubemap.frag" not found.

 

Do I have to copy something from ADN to my Leadwerks Dir?

 

This is also not working: SetShaderFloat(GetMaterialShader(mymaterial),"alphatest",0.50)

 

Regardless if i replace "mymaterial" with the material name.

Maybe I did something wrong. So pointing me in the right direction would be nice.

[Texturing]

ah ok. thanks for the explanaition.

[Stand up, please]

Well not a game but often game assets and visualizations on a every day base for people which do games/sim with Leadwerks.

 

I would like to do a small game and have an idea towards a children/pupils learning game with nice cartoony graphics some driving around in small vehicles and so on. Just the casual style stuff.

At least it will never happen...

[Texturing]

This is the worst UV layout I've seen for years.

Unwrap your elements and not just a view.

 

3dCoat uses p-tex which is not very usable if you want to paint your model in a 2d program.

[Ruler]

yes this sounds good. So I have a steady display of the ditance to use it as a spacer which I can delete afterwards.

 

So you need an arrow model or just a start and a end point?

[Ruler]

I'll upload models this evening in 6 hours or so.

[How to do a sprite texture material?]

hmm. using billboards is not the same i guess?

 

I dont have a 3d model from which it could generate a billboard. I need a sprite.

[Ruler]

Is it possible in .lua to do a ruler? So I have a start node and a end. The end should display the distance to the start point in meters.

[How to do a sprite texture material?]

And like always: I'm no coder and need an in-editor solution.

 

Yes I know, I'm a difficult person lol