[A More Robust Input command]

What do you mean with "without interrupting anything"?

You can get the mouse wheel as the z-coordinate of the GetMousePosition()-function

(http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/documentation/_/command-reference/window/windowgetmouseposition-r455)

 

What if i just want to poll if the mouse wheel is changed . Now I have introduce a global that will keep track of the change since the getmouseposition remembers its state. This brings up some complications. Is this the first time the function has been called? Does the value change even when I'm not testing for it? If this is true then how do I handle a non zero z value? do I say it didn't move or that it moved? Lots of problems can arise.

[A More Robust Input command]

While programming it became an increasing hassle to key track of what variable was a mouse button and what command was from the keyboard. So I wrote a function that will treat the mouse and the keyboard as the same input.

 

-- This creates a function that is capable of handeling both keyboard and mouse input

function InputHit(keycode)

local window = Window:GetCurrent()

local context=Context:GetCurrent()

if keycode == Key.LButton then return window:MouseHit(Key.LButton) end

if keycode == Key.RButton then return window:MouseHit(Key.RButton) end

if keycode == Key.MButton then return window:MouseHit(Key.MButton) end

return window:KeyHit(keycode)

end

function InputDown(keycode)

local window = Window:GetCurrent()

local context=Context:GetCurrent()

if keycode == Key.LButton then return window:MouseDown(Key.LButton) end

if keycode == Key.RButton then return window:MouseDown(Key.RButton) end

if keycode == Key.MButton then return window:MouseDown(Key.MButton) end

return window:KeyDown(keycode)

end

 

I'm still trying to figure out how to get the mouse wheel without interrupting anything

[graphics libraries?]

It is completely possible to do this. You would need to have horde handle all 3d and 2d drawing features, and leadwerks can do the rest. You will have to still provide leadwerks with compatible models so it can properly handle the physics.

[Procedural Level Generation (Lua)]

Continuing the conversation from the status updates, you mentioned to you have assets already created. How are they constructed? Are they actual prefabs where walls, floors, and ceilings are already in place and you piece them together like a jigsaw puzzle? Or after you generating them at runtime?

[Context::SetScale breaks some drawing commands]

Just driving by and putting a speed bump here....

[Procedural Level Generation (Lua)]

I started doing the same with buildings, but life took over and i never finished it. http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/blog/120/entry-1275-building-worlds/

[Any way to make message boxes?]

You are now heading for technical territory. First you will need to turn off

Sandbox Lua

in the Leadwerks options menu. Your game will not work in the Leadwerks game player on Steam anymore.

 

Now add this code when you want to make w messagebox appear

 

local ffi = require("ffi")
ffi.cdef[[int MessageBoxA(void *w, const char *txt, const char *cap, int type);]]
self.window:ShowMouse()
ffi.C.MessageBoxA(nil, "Hello world!", "Test", 0)
self.window:HideMouse()

 

Reference: http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html

 

Beyond this example I can't help as it is beyond my ability as a programmer.

[Any way to make message boxes?]

Do you want the pop up box to stop the game? If so this is what you want. http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/documentation/_/command-reference/debug/debugerror-r752

 

If you want it in game then you may have to choose it yourself.

[Multiple Text [GUI]]

I have a one too. My needlessly complicated version with markup language! No wordwrap though . Maybe one day...

 

--This function will be called once when the program starts

function App:Start()

 

--Initialize Steamworks (optional)

 

--Set the application title

 

--Create a window

local windowstyle = window.Titlebar

if System:GetProperty("fullscreen")=="1" then windowstyle=windowstyle+window.FullScreen end

self.window=Window:Create(self.title,0,0,System:GetProperty("screenwidth","1024"),System:GetProperty("screenheight","768"),windowstyle)

self.window:HideMouse()

 

--Create the graphics context

self.context=Context:Create(self.window,0)

if self.context==nil then return false end

return true

end

--This is our main program loop and will be called continuously until the program ends

function RGBAToVec4Scalar(rgb,a)

return Vec4(rgb[1]/256,rgb[2]/256,rgb[3]/256,a/256)

end

 

function split(string1,sep) --http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin

local sep, fields = sep or ":", {}

local pattern = string.format("([^%s]+)", sep)

string1 = string.gsub(string1, pattern, function© fields[#fields+1] = c end)

return fields

end

function drawtext2(text,x,y,width,height,colorastable)

local TempContext = Context:GetCurrent()

local tempblendmode = TempContext:GetBlendMode()

local oldcolor = TempContext:GetColor()

TempContext:SetColor(RGBAToVec4Scalar(colorastable,colorastable[4]))

TempContext:SetBlendMode(Blend.Alpha)

 

--[NOTICE] blend mode needs to be set to include alpha

--[NOTICE] all set colors need to be changed to the class color set

local oldcolor = TempContext:GetColor()

TempContext:SetColor(RGBAToVec4Scalar(colorastable,colorastable[4]))

-- [NOTICE] impliment command that will ignore all commands that change size in font and line breaks

-- preprocess string

local textcommands = {}

local workingstring=text

local watch = 1

local last = 0

local wraplines=false

while watch ~= nil do

watch,last = string.find(workingstring, '##(.-)##',watch)

if watch ~= nil then

--print(string.sub(workingstring,watch,last))

table.insert(textcommands,{split(string.sub(workingstring,watch+2,last-2)),watch,last}) -- add it to list of all commands

--split(string.sub(text,watch+2,last-2))

-- remove it from string

workingstring = string.gsub(workingstring,string.sub(workingstring,watch,last),"",1)

if watch ~= nil then

watch =1

end

end

 

end

local font = TempContext:GetFont()

TempContext:SetBlendMode(Blend.Alpha)

local i=0

local linewidth = 0

local lineheight = 0

local linecollection = {}

local currentline = 1

local stringcount = 0

local ignorelinebreak = false

--local currentlinehieghttotal = 0

while i < string.len(workingstring) do

i=i+1

currentletter = string.sub(workingstring,i,i) -- seriously pushing optimizations, no redunant code

-- process fonts

for ii =1 , #textcommands do

if i == textcommands[ii][2] then

local currentcommand = string.upper(textcommands[ii][1][1])

if (currentcommand == "WRAPLINES") == true then

--Debug:Error(textcommands[ii][1][2])

if string.upper(textcommands[ii][1][2]) == "TRUE" then wraplines = true end

if string.upper(textcommands[ii][1][2]) == "FALSE" then wraplines = false end

end

if (currentcommand == "FONTSIZE") == true then

-- so........ leadwerks dosent have a fontsize option........

end

if (currentcommand == "LINEBREAK") == true then

table.insert(linecollection,{linewidth,lineheight,stringcount})

linewidth = 0

lineheight = 0

stringcount = 0

end

if (currentcommand == "COLORRGB") == true then

end

end

end

if lineheight < font:GetHeight() then

lineheight = font:GetHeight()

end

if linewidth + font:GetTextWidth(currentletter) > width and wraplines == true then

--stringcount = stringcount+1

table.insert(linecollection,{linewidth,lineheight,stringcount})

lineheight = 0

linewidth = 0

i=i-1

currentline = currentline +1

stringcount = 0

elseif linewidth + font:GetTextWidth(currentletter) > width and wraplines == false then

-- keep counting strings. we will ignore them later

stringcount = stringcount+1

else

linewidth = linewidth + font:GetTextWidth(currentletter)

stringcount = stringcount+1

end

end

table.insert(linecollection,{linewidth,lineheight,stringcount})

--"Einlanders Text Command:It supports forcedlinebreaks, Inline color changes and line wrapping. Font Size changesLeadwerks does'nt TEXT RENDERING LIKETHIS IS EXPENSIVE

local stringcount = 1

local stringbuilder = ""

local oldlinelocation = 0

local linelocation = 0

local currentheight = 0

local drawtext = false

local currentcolor = TempContext:GetColor()

for i = 1 , #linecollection do

oldlinelocation = 0

linelocation = 0

stringbuilder = ""

--build string till color change

for stringlength = 1 , linecollection[3] do

for ii =1 , #textcommands do

if stringcount == textcommands[ii][2] then

local currentcommand = string.upper(textcommands[ii][1][1])

if (currentcommand == "COLORRGB") == true then

--context:SetColor(currentcolor)

--context:DrawText(stringbuilder,x+oldlinelocation,y+currentheight)

--oldlinelocation = linelocation

--stringbuilder = ""

drawtext = true

end

end

if drawtext == true then

TempContext:SetColor(currentcolor)

TempContext:DrawText(stringbuilder,x+oldlinelocation,y+currentheight)

oldlinelocation = linelocation

stringbuilder = ""

drawtext= false

end

if stringcount == textcommands[ii][2] then

local currentcommand = string.upper(textcommands[ii][1][1])

if (currentcommand == "COLORRGB") == true then

TempContext:SetColor(

textcommands[ii][1][2]/255,

textcommands[ii][1][3]/255,

textcommands[ii][1][4]/255)

currentcolor = TempContext:GetColor()

end

end

end

if drawtext == true then

 

end

currentletter = string.sub(workingstring,stringcount,stringcount)

 

linelocation = linelocation + font:GetTextWidth(currentletter)

 

if linelocation < width and (wraplines == false) then

stringbuilder =stringbuilder .. currentletter

elseif (wraplines == true) then

stringbuilder =stringbuilder .. currentletter

end

 

stringcount = stringcount + 1

if currentheight > height then break end

if stringlength == linecollection[3] then

TempContext:DrawText(stringbuilder,x+oldlinelocation,y+currentheight)

currentheight = currentheight + linecollection[2]+5

end

end

 

--print(string.sub(workingstring,stringcount,linecollection[3]))

--stringcount =stringcount+ linecollection[3]

end

--os.exit()

TempContext:SetColor(RGBAToVec4Scalar({oldcolor.r,oldcolor.g,oldcolor.b},256))

TempContext:SetBlendMode(tempblendmode)

end

function App:Loop()

--If window has been closed, end the program

if self.window:Closed() or self.window:KeyDown(Key.Escape) then return false end

self.context:SetColor(Vec4(100/256,100/256,100/256,1))

self.context:DrawRect(50,200,300,180)

 

-- need to set the box size manually

drawtext2("##wraplines:true####colorrgb:256:0:0##Leadwerks Software##linebreak## ##colorrgb:256:256:256##Leadwerks Software was founded in 2006 to make game development fun and enjoyable."..

"The company launched Leadwerks 3, their first multiplatform product, in April at the GDC 2013 expo. Last summer, the company "..

"conducted a successful Kickstarter campaign to bring Leadwerks to the Linux operating system, reaching over 200% of their goal "..

"in just six weeks. A concurrent Greenlight campaign for Steam was also successful, making Leadwerks the first 3D game engine "..

"approved for distribution on Steam.",50,200,300,150,{255,255,255,255})

 

 

self.context:Sync(true)

return true

end

[2 Errors]

One of your meshes uses shape option from the dropdown in the physics tab. This was removed in the beta. This is a bug.

[Program crash]

Do you have and AMD/ATI graphics card?

[Map destroyed]

First check to see if a backup temp.map exists in the projects map folder and see if that loads an older version of your map. If not check the Leadwerks backup folder

%HOMEPATH%\Documents\Leadwerks\Backup

<- paste that into explorer and it will take you there. Sort by modified to list it by the last time a map was changed. Pray there is a copy.

[Recommend a simple model program]

Silo 2 and ray supreme. Both are on steam and ray supreme supports fbx and you can draw on the UV texture.

 

And as a anim8or user I do recommend that, export as obj/3ds to blender the save as fbx.

[The Order game art dump]

I need to step my game up...

 

Edit:

While looking at the images, I'm impressed with how they managed to recycle texture assets and how the approach they use for texture mapping.

[[Linux] Leadwerks currently not ignoring case sensitivity.]

What is?

[Disappearing/Traveling model when editing materials]

If you have your Model Editor window open AND the Material window open, and change somthing in the Model editor, it moves the model from the perspective view to the material view.

 

[More Precise Timer]

I've been following this thread, but I'm getting a bit confused now. Are you trying to include a c library in your lua project to use from lua. Or are you trying to expose a c function to lua to be used from a lua script?

 

If its the first look into "luajit ffi" ffi is the key as it allows you to directly load c code into luajit. The other way I can't help you.

[Material Type]

This would work awesome for traditional games and csg's, but issues will arise when you get creative. So lets say I create a portal clone. I create a new goo. How do I assign a new material type? Another issue is multi-material meshes. Say I import 1 house and it is a single mesh with multiple materials. How do I figure out the footsteps WITHOUT creating triggerzones to force the structure ts to change? Same thing with a mesh that uses a texture atlas.

[Shader problems]

Note the Leadwerks Ps,Vs shader will be red in Leadwerks if you don't make some changes.

[Shader problems]

There seems to bee a roll back in Shader tool. The feature I was talking about is now missing. I'm putting something on steam to help them out.

 

It use to be copy and paste.

 

http://steamcommunity.com/app/314720/discussions/0/618453594747407982/

[Shader problems]

In shadertool create a leadwerks template node. the Leadwerks fs,PS template has what looks to be a boilerplate diffuse shader with 1 texture.

[Searching for any string in the asset browser that includes a \ will crash to desktop]

As the title says searching for any string in the asset browser that includes a \ will crash to desktop.

 

How to reproduce: type / in the search box and hit enter.

[View all scripts]

I use it when I want to get a list of all my prefabs without going through folders, that's it.

[transparent.shader issue]

I assume you are using an ati graphics card? http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/10986-transparency-bug/

[Model names wrong in scene panel : Model test]

If or when it gets implemented can we have it as a check box in the settings so it doesn't mess up my already existing models?