[Win Steam keys - On the road again tournament.]

Here is the car level. This one took ages to upload. Its still processing for some reason, so just give it some time.

[Win Steam keys - On the road again tournament.]

I made the highscore in the ball level and recorded my playthrough.

Gonna start attempting the car level now.

 

Is there any negotiation around the prizes? I don't like either of the 1st place games (not saying I'm going to win or anything). I'd just much prefer the 2nd place prizes.

[Get material from CSG mesh]

@shadmar That looks like it'll do the trick!

@Genebris That would work in most cases, but if the surface has more than one surface, it won't work.

 

Thanks everyone!

 

Edit: My final solution is to get the face from the Pick, then get the material from the face, just in case anyone is reading this in the future with the same question.

More info here http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/api-reference/_/pickinfo/

[Get material from CSG mesh]

That works, thanks.

Its not ideal, but there's probably no other way.

[Get material from CSG mesh]

I'm trying to get the material of a raycast entity, but It won't let me get the material of a CSG as I'm pretty sure the geometry gets combined for optimization. Is there a way to get the material from a CSG?

[What are you working on :]

Dude, that's sick! Can't wait to see those models in a game

[A long Journey]

I'm impressed! Really atmospheric

That old man was creepy. He just appeared out of nowhere. Was not expecting it at all.

Is there a way past the path as you follow the man? He got to the end and disappeared and there was an invisible wall blocking me.

[Script Editor Window Starts slightly off screen]

Single monitor

[Script Editor Window Starts slightly off screen]

I get that too, except mine is off to the right

[Post effect scripts revert to default when game is published]

When I made my game for the tournament, I changed some post effect scripts, because the bloom was way too strong. When I published my game, the bloom got put back to default. What gives?

 

I tried publishing as standalone and it's fine, but not on the steam workshop.

[FBX from 3D Studio Max -> Leadwerks -> Animation seq.]

I haven't used 3ds Max for a while now, but I remember there was a setting in the export popup to include animations. Might be a good idea to check those export settings to make sure you haven't missed anything.

[Colliding with triggers using SweptCollisionMode on]

@Josh can you please investigate this? Nothing should ever physically collide with a trigger.

[Please add Camera movement and pan speed on toolbar or viewport]

Did you know you can hold shift to speed up the camera?

[Frame limiting or frame smoothing]

I'm just guessing here, but probably something like:

 

local fpsLimit = 30.0
local deltaTime = 1.0 / Time:UPS()
local limitedRate = 1.0 / fpsLimit
if deltaTime < limitedRate then
Time:Delay((limitedRate - deltaTime) * 1000)
end

[question before buy]

I think it's more reasonable to expect the user to modify and extend existing games rather than create something new from scratch.

 

Just don't forget those of us who do want to create something from scratch

[Colliding with triggers using SweptCollisionMode on]

I've noticed that when using SweptCollisionMode, the entity will collide with triggers. If I turn it off, it doesn't collide, but then I fall through platforms when I jump, so I need to have it.

 

I've also noticed that setting PickMode to 0 doesn't do what it says. I'm still getting them in the pick.

[Physics bug (falling through floor)]

I recorded a short demo of what is happening. I also enabled wireframe so you can see what I mean about the seam between the triangles.

 

[Physics bug (falling through floor)]

Yep. Put a whole bunch of smaller boxes and it's like one of those car testing tracks (but flat). The ball just gets stuck on them.

[Physics bug (falling through floor)]

Unfortunately, those didn't work.

 

I'm convinced there's a correlation between the ball falling through and the seam where the two trianges meet to create the polygon of the surface.

[Physics bug (falling through floor)]

Thanks, I'll try those

[Physics bug (falling through floor)]

I decided to make a mini golf game for the game tournament, but I'm being haunted by some physics bug. I have a ball that is 0.1 scale and after it gets hit, once it gets to a specific point, it falls throught the floor. It happens without fail. The hotspot seems to be in the middle of the CSG where the two triangles meet. Even when I scale the ball to 1, it doesn't fall through the floor, but it does hit a bump and put it off course.

 

Here's my script in case you can see anything that might be wrong.

 

Script.mouseSensitivity = 2.0
Script.camOffset = Vec3(0, 1, -3)
Script.camSmoothing = 10.0
Script.hitForce = 350
function Script:Start()
--initialize camera
self.camera = Camera:Create()
self.camera:SetFOV(70)
self.camera:SetRange(0.05, 1000)
self.camera:SetMultisampleMode((System:GetProperty("multisample", "4")))
self.camera:SetRotation(self.entity:GetRotation(true))
self.camera:SetPosition(self.entity:GetPosition(true) + self.camOffset)
--add listener as camera
self.listener = Listener:Create(self.camera)
--create player model
self.entity:SetPosition(self.entity:GetPosition(true) + Vec3(0, 0.1, 0), true)
self.model = Model:Sphere()
self.model:SetScale(0.1, 0.1, 0.1)
self.model:SetPosition(self.entity:GetPosition(true), true)
self.model:SetParent(self.entity)
self.model:SetColor(1,1,1)
--setup ball physics
self.entity:SetMass(1)
self.entity:SetFriction(0.1, 0.1)
self.entity:SetSweptCollisionMode(true)
--Create a shape
local shape = Shape:Sphere(0,0,0, 0,0,0, 0.1,0.1,0.1)
self.entity:SetShape(shape)
shape:Release()
--set collision type of player
self.entity:SetCollisionType(Collision.Prop)
local window = Window:GetCurrent()
local context = Context:GetCurrent()
window:SetMousePosition(Math:Round(context:GetWidth() / 2), Math:Round(context:GetHeight() / 2))

self.mouseDifference = Vec3(0, 0, 0)
self.camRotation = Vec3(0, 0, 0)
self.camera:SetRotation(self.camRotation)
end
function Script:UpdateWorld()
local window = Window:GetCurrent()
local context = Context:GetCurrent()
--mouse look
self.currentMousePos = window:GetMousePosition()
window:SetMousePosition(Math:Round(context:GetWidth() / 2), Math:Round(context:GetHeight() / 2))
self.currentMousePos.x = Math:Round(self.currentMousePos.x)
self.currentMousePos.y = Math:Round(self.currentMousePos.y)
self.mouseDifference.x = Math:Curve(self.currentMousePos.x - Math:Round(context:GetWidth() / 2), self.mouseDifference.x, 3)
self.mouseDifference.y = Math:Curve(self.currentMousePos.y - Math:Round(context:GetHeight() / 2), self.mouseDifference.y, 3)
self.camRotation.x = Math:Clamp(self.camRotation.x + self.mouseDifference.y / self.mouseSensitivity, 0, 70)
self.camRotation.y = self.camRotation.y + (self.mouseDifference.x / self.mouseSensitivity)
--camera orbit around ball
self.camera:SetRotation(self.camRotation)
self.camera:SetPosition(self.entity:GetPosition(true), true)
self.camera:Move(self.camOffset)
--hit the ball
if window:MouseHit(1) then
 local c = self.camera:GetPosition(true)
 local p = self.entity:GetPosition(true)
 local dir = p - Vec3(c.x, p.y, c.z)
 dir = dir:Normalize() * self.hitForce
 self.entity:AddForce(dir)
end
end

 

All I did was create a new map, added a pivot at 0,0,0 with this script assigned, then created a CSG cube at pos: 0, -16, 2688 and size: 512cm, 32cm, 5888cm.

Hit the ball without moving the mouse and it will get half way down and fall through.

I even tried a small 512x512 floor with walls and just hit it around. Eventually it would fall through.

[Quickly Placing Models]

If you can't find a way in the editor, you could do it at runtime. Just do a whole bunch of raycasts downwards at random positions to get the position to spawn them.

[Shadows acting weird]

Yeah, It's Nvidia. I have the latest driver.

I'll just work around it, especially if it's only happening to me.

[Shadows acting weird]

How do I re-render the shadowmap?

 

Dynamic shadows fix it, but I'd rather not.

[Shadows acting weird]

Strange, I haven't seen this bug outside of Leadwerks. I'll try to work around it, but it's a little frustrating when you can't take decent screenshots because of it.