[What tutorial would be most useful]

If you get time, how you did these would be interesting to learn about :

 

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/videos/_/-r160

[LE 3 BSP : no automatic offset option when duplicate objects]

That would be useful.

[LE3 : Trees and alpha foliage]

They are not, but I was referring to this : http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/files/file/404-le3-treesway-shader/

[What are you working on :]

Hei BES, you have a working planet renderer? (as in LOD planet full scaled?)

[Reducing model poly count]

It's just above polyreduce I think.

[LE3 : how many dynamic lights ?]

Just tested, I thought it should work this way but it doesn't, it only lights up the 4 last ones added.

[LE3 : how many dynamic lights ?]

I think you can put as many as you want, but only the 4 closest to the camera is rendered,

[Hotkeys for copy/paste position/rotation/scale]

Example : If placing different types prefabs in one area, you need to manually place each one.

Would speedup level creations.

 

Suggestion :

- click one item, then shift-click another to place the first one at the second ones location.

- click one item, then ctrl-click another to rotate the first to the second ones rotation

- click one item, then shift+ctrl-click another to place+rotate the first one at the second ones location+rotation

 

maybe add alt key also for scale.

[Directional light could have an arrow]

3D arrow maybe, it's really hard telling where the lightvector actually goes (if you're trying to match direction of a sun in a skybox/dome)

[LE3 : Normal map from 3D Coat]

You need to resave your normalmap in le3's texture editor as normalmap to have z moved to the alpha channel.

[LE3 : Trees and alpha foliage]

You could grab the tree sway shader in the asset store, it does alpha tests for foilage.

[Leadwerks 3 "How do I ____?" Questions and Answers]

Is there currently any method I can pass a varying to all shaders in one go without looping through all materials form all surfaces to find shader and send shader:SetFloat ?

(like for fog if I wanted)

 

If not could maybe mat files be used for custom varys.

Or maybe a Shader:SetGlobalFloat/vec2,3,4.. for a push out to all. (not so sure if that would be smart either)

[Leadwerks 3 "How do I ____?" Questions and Answers]

Ok, no problem.

[Leadwerks 3 "How do I ____?" Questions and Answers]

I was watching Andy's : http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/videos/_/-r192

And immediately thought of portal somehow.

Is it possible to render a camera to a texture?

[Leadwerks 3 "How do I ____?" Questions and Answers]

Is there any easy method to copy positions and rotation from one prefab to another (when using different ones)

In the editor.

[Why are normal maps red?]

Z is stored in the alpha channel. So blue isn't used.

[Leadwerks 3 "How do I ____?" Questions and Answers]

Hi

 

What is required from custom meshes to be able to use lightmap properly?

I have a second uv channel and texture3 points to lightmap.tex, but I can't do it.

 

[LE3 Can't make up my mind]

Do you mean simple projected shadows, like what Source Engine uses?:

 

Those are extremely easy for me to add, and they run fast on all hardware. We actually had those in Leadwerks 1: XD

 

If enough people ask, I can add that when I do terrain. It's not hard to implement.

 

Add me to the ask list. Those are more than good enough.

[Using LE3 documentation examples]

You could try httrack, a nice little offline tool for webpages.

[DOF and Lighting]

Shadows over every other post effects. Even volume stencils would work

[Failed to initialize debugger ?]

Then again, it helps not running mulitple instances of le3

[Failed to initialize debugger ?]

Happens to me if I hit F6 on an new created lua project, but not in Darkness Awaits

[Writing mobile shaders]

Thx for the tip.

[Using LE3 documentation examples]

You guys really outdone yourselves in the docs this time. I like this alot.

Good thing you didn't die Chris

[Leadwerks 3 "How do I ____?" Questions and Answers]

Models in Leadwerks 3 are basically the same as a Mesh in Leadwerks 2. A model can have one or more surfaces. In this case, the material you are looking for is applied to the model surface, so it will be something like this:

local child = self.target:GetChild(1)
local surface = child:GetSurface(0)
local material = surface:GetMaterial()

 

Since GetChild() returns an entity, and GetSurface() is a Model class command, you might need to cast the entity object to a model:

http://www.leadwerks...ng-with-lua-r57

 

Note that all indexes in Leadwerks 3 begin with 0, so 0 is the first entity or surface, 1 is the second, etc.

 

That works, thanks guys.. (my first shader in le3) :

 

    surface = self.target:GetSurface(0)
   initmat = surface:GetMaterial()