[a Question about Lua]

Lua sandboxing, but I'm not sure how well this works with the engine though.

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224708/how-can-i-create-a-secure-lua-sandbox

 

http://lua-users.org/wiki/SandBoxes

[Collision on animated characters :]

I have never seen a game that used that level of detail in character physics.

What do games with realistic projectile physics (such as bullet drop, bullet travel time, ricochet, etc) use?

[Collision on animated characters :]

Use the character controller.

Isn't that a cylinder shape though? What I mean is having a physic body collide with an animated character's body part, like their head or leg.

[Collision on animated characters :]

while physics collisions work with static shapes only..

How would you get the effect of physic collisions on animated characters?

[Heat haze and water]

Would it be possible to emulate the effect somehow?

I wanted to give guns a heat haze effect or use it for a flame thrower, but with other shaders conflicting, I'm wondering if a work around is possible.

[Heat haze and water]

How would I do that?

[Heat haze and water]

This as I understand it is a framework issue and requires another rendering pass to make it work. As this has been an issue for a long time I don't understand why the framework is not modified to accomodate this as a switchable option so that people who want to use it and take the hit can do but those who have no need of it can opt to simply not use it. That way it's a win win situation!

Do you know if anyone has successfully done this?

 

From what I've read too its to do with the rendering pass, but I had the impression the problem existed before the framework.

[Heat haze and water]

This is the problem I'm talking about

 

I had hoped to use the heat haze more frequently, but I need a way to work around this problem.

[Heat haze and water]

Is there a work around with getting the heat haze and water effects as multiple layers?

[Frosted glass shader?]

The refraction shader can do that. It's slightly more complex to implement a blur in the shader, but not that bad.

 

It would not handle multiple layers of transparency, though. Just the topmost layer would be fuzzy, so if you had three panes like that, they would not get progressively more fuzzy with each layer.

Is this the same reason the heat refraction messes with water?

How do other games get around the problem?

[Using a skydome]

I used one in the early days of Leadwerks, just placed it in the background world, scaled and textured it and that was pretty much it. Skyboxes seem to exhibit less distortion though. Why the particular interest in a skydome?

Wanted to rotate the night sky to give the effect of the earths movement.

[Leadwerks.Net Wrapper]

The project can directly be included into your solution.

After playing around with the command line it seems a .netmodule can also be created.

[Leadwerks.Net Wrapper]

If you mean within your own application, it is possible.

 

I did a quick Google search found this link with several options regarding resources and embedded DLLs: Embed DLL within EXE

 

One option:

ILMerge

What I mean is does the C# wrapper need to be compiled as a net dll, or can the source code be included into the game's solution?

[Using a skydome]

I thought that required a skybox not a skydome?

[Leadwerks.Net Wrapper]

Can the wrapper be embedded or compiled into the main exe?

[Using a skydome]

Is there any examples of using a skydome, preferably working with framework?

[Convert object to integer and back]

If you have any plans to compile for x64, you shouldn't be using int to hold a pointer. stdint.h has a portable intptr_t type.

[Day to Night cycle script (wip)]

Finally, how can this be used in C++ code? Is it possible yet?

Maybe load the model and set the data with SetEntityKey?

[Day to Night cycle script (wip)]

Even at intensity 0.1 it appears too bright.

[getting 0 with a division into a float type]

Because its an integer division. Try 200.0f / 800.0f

[Purebasic Import - 1st try]

He he, Paul is also good in purebasic his help is precious.

But I still wouldn't use it for something like LeadWerks. Some of the way PureBasic handles things is a real pain.

[Purebasic Import - 1st try]

plus its in a function <- SM: not really? why a function - its only a variable that becomes thru the enumeration an fixed number @ compilation time => konstante

Then there is no reason for a procedure to contain the structures and constants.

[Purebasic Import - 1st try]

i tryed to use XIncludeFile("Leadwerks.pb")

but when i do this i get and error

[compiler] line 83 Constant not found #Engine_library

 

i don't understand why any help ?

#Engine_library isn't assigned a number, plus its in a function. I find using #PB_Any is better, which a generates a number instead.

Don't really see the point of "Init_Engine_Enum()" it doesn't do anything and just contains the constants and structs.

 

Macro _leInitialize(le_dll)
le_lib=OpenLibrary(#PB_Any,le_dll)
If le_lib
	_leInitAllFuncs()
Else
	lePrint(le_dll+" can't be loaded.")
EndIf
EndMacro

[Purebasic Import - 1st try]

i don't know how to copy the value, how would you code this ?

Using the CopyStructure command.

 

copying the value may lead to memory leaks, the copied value will never be freed ? no ?

Depends what its been copied to, a variable should be ok, but if its an allocation then it needs to be freed.

[Purebasic Import - 1st try]

Ok i think understood, will replace Protected result by Static Result

Thanks (sorry, i'm a bit slow)

That too can be a problem, if you don't copy the result the following call to the same function will over write it.