[Purebasic Import - 1st try]

Interresting. Do you have a little sample of code for this ?

What do you mean? On the PureBasic forums one of the developers stated returning the address of a local variable is a bad idea. The C++ code returns the structure by value, thereby copying the struct; PureBasic can't do this, atleast not automatically.

[Purebasic Import - 1st try]

I know I did it myself, but the Vec* functions shouldn't return the address of a local variable. Use static or dynamically allocate memory.

[Advanced scene loading]

The biggest clue is to avoid LoadScene. Really, all that does is load an entity scene "container", and then models in the scene are loaded as children. But you could just load the entities one at a time with a for-loop since the sbx file is just plain text, it's easy read it manually.

How would you set up the vegetation layers?

[Engine static lib]

This is what happens with LEO also, because its so huge, so a LEO.DLL would help also here.

The benefit of static linking is not all the code needs to be included in the exe, a leo.dll would be very pointless.

[Public Domain(ish) C++ Code]

How is the lightning rendered? I don't see anything in the code that would render the actual lightning, just the flashes.

[Leadwerks as API]

Some things aren't accessible like vegetation layers.

[Upcoming header fixes]

LE has been always object oriented (internally: yes, DLL: no, wrappers(C++,C#,Delphi,Object Pascal,Lua,etc...): yes), but the limitation was that BlitzMax can only generate procedural DLLs. In LE3 this limitation won't exist anymore, so it's possible to have an OOP DLL (and even a static lib) in addition to the procedural DLL for non-OOP languages.

I don't think that would work on all c++ compilers because of different ABIs

[Upcoming header fixes]

Buffer::Set(buffer) should also be static

[MaxGUI 1.39 with Leadwerks 2.32]

Works with 2.32r5

[MaxGUI 1.39 with Leadwerks 2.32]

I put this together, the GUI was generated with LogicGUI and afew lines for the canvas rendering from the OpenSandbox project on the old forums.

 

SuperStrict

Framework leadwerks.ENGINE
Import koriolis.bufferedstream
Import koriolis.zipstream
Import leadwerks.logstream
Import leadwerks.audio
Import leadwerks.ENGINE
Import leadwerks.glewex
Import maxgui.maxgui
Import leadwerks.abstractstream
Import maxgui.win32maxguiex
Import maxgui.drivers
Import brl.event
Import brl.eventqueue

Local world:TWorld
Global gbuffer:TBuffer
Local camera:TCamera
Local mesh:TMesh
Global light:TLight
Local ground:TMesh
Local material:TMaterial

GCSetMode(2)

SetGraphicsDriver GLGraphicsDriver(), GRAPHICS_BACKBUFFER | GRAPHICS_DEPTHBUFFER

RegisterAbstractPath( "D:/Program Files (x86)/Leadwerks Engine SDK" ) 

Local Window1:TGadget = CreateWindow("Window1",383,112,1042,767,Null,WINDOW_TITLEBAR|WINDOW_RESIZABLE |WINDOW_CLIENTCOORDS )
Local Canvas1:TGadget = CreateCanvas(0,0,1042,767,Window1,Null)
	ActivateGadget( Canvas1 )
	SetGadgetLayout( Canvas1,EDGE_ALIGNED,EDGE_ALIGNED,EDGE_ALIGNED,EDGE_ALIGNED )

	SetGraphics CanvasGraphics(Canvas1)

world=CreateWorld()
If Not world RuntimeError "Failed to create world."

gbuffer=CreateBuffer(GraphicsWidth(),GraphicsHeight(),BUFFER_DEPTH|BUFFER_COLOR0|BUFFER_COLOR1|BUFFER_COLOR2)

camera=CreateCamera()
PositionEntity camera,[0.0,0.0,-2.0]

material=LoadMaterial("abstract::cobblestones.mat")

mesh=CreateCube()
PaintEntity mesh,material

ground=CreateCube()
ScaleEntity ground,[10.0,1.0,10.0]
PositionEntity ground,[0.0,-2.0,0.0]
PaintEntity ground,material

light=CreateDirectionalLight()

RotateEntity light,[45.0,45.0,45.0]


Repeat
PollEvent()
Select EventID()
	Case EVENT_WINDOWCLOSE
		Select EventSource()
			Case Window1	Window1_WC( Window1 )
		End Select

End Select

TurnEntity mesh,[AppSpeed()*0.5,AppSpeed()*0.5,AppSpeed()*0.5]

If KeyHit(KEY_ESCAPE) Exit
If AppTerminate() Exit

UpdateAppTime()
UpdateWorld(AppSpeed())

SetBuffer(gbuffer)
RenderWorld()
SetBuffer(BackBuffer())
RenderLights(gbuffer)

Flip(0)

Forever

Function Window1_WC( Window:TGadget )
gbuffer=Null
FreeEntity light
GCCollect()
End
End Function

[Skydome or skybox]

Which would work better?

[Skydome or skybox]

For a dynamic or realtime sky, with day-night, moving clouds, stars, etc what would work better a skydome or skybox?

For example I was thinking of using a separate dome each for the day and night, and fade/rotate the day skydome to get the effect of stars becoming visible. However from what I can tell the framewerk and editor only appears to support a skybox, so I'm asking before I start implementing a skydome.

[Download trouble?]

Past few attempts the downloading has stopped short.

[Leadwerks Engine SDK 2.32 now available]

In the editor, directional and point light's shadow resolution gets reset when I attempt to change it. Plus point light's resolution only goes up to 1024.

[What is the 'right' pipeline for LE?]

I don't think there is a "right" choice. I've used Milkshape and Blender.

[Miscrosoft Visual Studio 2010 and C++0x]

There is no need for a Standard edition. There is Express edition (free), and Professional Edition, and various Enterprise editions.

Unless you want to use ATL or MFC without all the features of the Professional Edition and the cost.

[Miscrosoft Visual Studio 2010 and C++0x]

Doesn't look like a standard edition is going to be released.

[LEO: Framework::Free() Access violation]

fw.Free() works does it not?

No, thats what I've just been saying.

[LEO: Framework::Free() Access violation]

How should I be calling it?

 

This shows what I'm talking about.

#include "leo.h"
using namespace LEO ;

int WINAPI WinMain( HINSTANCE hInstance,
				HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
				LPSTR lpCmdLine,
				int nShowCmd ) 
{
Engine engine( "Game", 800, 600 ) ;
Engine::SetAbstractPath( "E:/Program Files (x86)/Leadwerks Engine SDK" ) ;
Engine::SetFilters() ;
Engine::SetShadowQuality(DEEPSHADOW);

World world( CREATENOW ) ;
if( !world.IsValid() ) 
{
	MessageBoxA(0,"Error","Failed to create world.",MB_OK);
	return engine.Free() ;
}

Framework fw;
fw.Create();
fw.Free();

// Done
return engine.Free() ;
}

[Help me trace the unknown lag]

Have you got a virus scanner running in the background?

One virus scanner I used would lag some games for a split second at regular intervals.

[LEO: Framework::Free() Access violation]

Calling Framework::Free() on an existing Framework causes an access violation.

The problem seems to be Layer::operator=() is treating 0 as a pointer.

[Set distance Lod]

Is it possible to define default values in mymodel.lua? (I know you guys are not here to teach me Lua, so please link me to one of available models in SDK)

I'd assume so, the lua script can still call get and setkey

[Set distance Lod]

In the way the script is written, no the sound key in the ini file is not being used. It could have been if the object keys had been set for it inside the script. But if you open the properties dialog for the oildrum, you will see that the mass is being set by the ini file.

So is this automatic or does the script have to open the ini file?

I can't find anything in the wiki about how the engine treats ini files.

[Set distance Lod]

yes I can use it for mass and collision type, sound and ...

you can check oildrum.ini

But is it being used since the script also loads the sounds?

[Set distance Lod]

Does the engine even read the .ini files?