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Occasionally the editor will display a white square on one or more toolbar buttons. I'm not sure if this is a Win32 problem or a problem with the SVG rasterizer.

Just posting this here so this issue doesn't get forgotten about. Clicking around at the viewports will cause it and/or others to stop drawing. Sometimes the icons in the tool bar also don't render.

I am working my way through some of the sample code and making slight modifications. I am stuck with a very simple problem. I cannot manage to get a model to successfully render a texture. I am using slightly modified code from the leadwerks docs and a stock material. Any insight to my challenged code/thought process is appreciated. #include "App.h" using namespace Leadwerks; App::App() : window(NULL), context(NULL), world(NULL), camera(NULL) {} App::~App() { delete world; delete window; } bool App::Start() { window = Window::Create(); context = Context::Create(window); world = World::Create(); camera = Camera::Create(); camera->SetRotation(5, 0, 0); camera->Move(0, 0, -6); Light* light = DirectionalLight::Create(); light->SetRotation(35, 35, 0); Model* model = NULL; model = Model::Create(); model->SetColor(1.0, 0.0, 1.0); model->SetPosition(0, 0, 0); material = Material::Load("Materials/Concrete/concrete_dirty.mat"); Surface* surface = model->AddSurface(); surface->AddVertex(-0.5, -0.5, 0, 0, 0, -1); surface->AddVertex(0.5, -0.5, 0, 0, 0, -1); surface->AddVertex(0.5, 0.5, 0, 0, 0, -1); surface->AddVertex(-0.5, 0.5, 0, 0, 0, -1); surface->AddTriangle(2, 1, 0); surface->AddTriangle(0, 3, 2); surface->UpdateAABB(); model->SetMaterial(material,1); model->UpdateAABB(Entity::LocalAABB | Entity::GlobalAABB); return true; } bool App::Loop() { if (window->Closed() || window->KeyDown(Key::Escape)) return false; Time::Update(); world->Update(); world->Render(); context->Sync(); return true; }

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Ever made a level in csg and exported it to obj? Well you probably found out that you end up with one massive mess of polygons. This tool fixes that. It will take a leadwerks exported mesh and fix it to something that is easier to handle. What it does: Separates all the objects into mesh groups. What it doesn't do: Anything with textures or uvmaps. Leadwerks doesn't export any of them It was written in vb.net so it should run in wine if your on linux. leadwerks obj fixer.zip

**Operating system or device - Leadwerks Version:** Windows 7 Pro x64 Leadwerks 4.2 Beta BuildID:1479910 **Issue description** (what happened, and what was expected): -Issue: Models added to the terrain vegetation layer do not show up in game. The same model used for vegitation will reflect if manually dragged into the world. [*]-What was expected Models to show reflection in the water. **Steps to reproduce:** Create scene. Add terrain Add skybox Add models to vegetation layer Run Game **Link to minimal example project** No project just an images: **EDIT** So It seems that the game defaults to a medium water quality instead of high. :/

In Windows, when you try to create a hight quality 32x MSAA render in a large scene, you may an error and display driver stopped and recovered appears. Most likely it is related to "Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR)". This is because the scene takes more than 2 seconds to render. Windows understands that it is not a normal behavior that a scene in real time take more than 2 seconds to be rendered and active this protection. Don't worry, is easily solved: 1- Download and install the TDR manipulator and follow the instructions from link. I personally have the TDR disable and don't have any problem. https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/694754/geforce-drivers/tdr-manipulator-v1-1-02-23-2014-/

I was going through the tutorials and i ran into a problem very early. When I create a new project it doesn't give me the option to make my game for any other platforms. According to the user guide I should have an option to make the game for android, IOS, macOS and windows. Please help/explain! thanks

This is using today's update. In the editor for example, the scripts folder you can see all the scripts and shaders of all the child folders instead of just the files in the current folder. I'm at work so I can't take screenshots.

This was planned as a response to this thread in the micro blogging system (See: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/statuses/id/7596/) but look at the size of it and you will see why I made it a proper blog post instead. ___ Here's a hard truth for indie devs: Your stuff isn't anywhere near popular enough that you could even consider the dynamics of the entire market as you do not have a snowballs chance in hell of getting that kind of traction for your product. You are not going to reach the clear cut and homogeneous entirety of the Steam user base. Instead you are probably going to reach a barely predictable heterogeneous fraction of it. The majority of the market will simply not care so addressing an under served niche audience as well as the bulk of the market can be a very prudent choice. There's a reason why all three big Mac port publishers (Aspyr, Feral and Virtual Programming) have collectively started rolling out Linux ports. They understand the dynamics of a niche market, they have done business in one for years, exclusively. Check out these sales data articles (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/sales-statistics-from-developers-part-3.4090), they are mostly concerned with Linux but quite often include Mac data as well. While some of these numbers are silly low ( often owed to the fact that these ports released months after the initial Windows only release and if you look at Rust in article 1 and 3 they manage to catch up) both platforms combined can run anywhere between 6-15 percent regularly, significantly more in extreme cases. It's mostly the popular indie titles that have platform statistics more in line with total market share. But be frank with yourself: How likely is it that your game is going to be the next Rust compared to the likelihood of it being any of these games you have never heard about before? Could you honestly just ignore around 10% of total sales? (Much more in percent if you look at it as an increase over a Windows only release.) In essence you are running the Lemonade stand on the street so thinking like you were the CEO of Coca Cola doesn't exactly apply to you. And while Mac's growth is certainly limited due to the nature of being based on premium products (Some people will never shell out this much extra for a computer while cheaper options exist.) Steam Machines could increase the size of the Linux install base enormously while having just about no chance of negatively affecting the Linux market share. The people that are already using Linux for gaming on desktops do not care whether or not console machines do well or fizzle into irrelevance.

Hello, I have been trying to do some research on the engine for my future projects. Now, I am unable to find information on the licenses (or maybe I didn't look hard enough.) If I bought the license on steam for Windows, would I be able to use that license on the Ubuntu Software Center and use it on Ubuntu without having to pay twice?

Hello, since the last update the camera clipping range in the editor is too low. We are not able to work efficiently on our level with a size of 2048x2048 as some parts of the level are always clipped. Please increase it or make it an option in the settings dialog. Cheers, Bryan

I'm trying to make a Level of detail system, and i found that I can not hide children from a parent. I would like to suggest the ability to hide a child Ie: child:Hide() This would hide the child and leave the childs' children with the same properties (i hide a child and it's children is still visible.). Also the ability to hide all of a childs children ie: child:Hide(True). This would hide a child and all it's children, but leave its' parents alone. My experiments with children Attach this to the parent: function Script:Start() self.entity:Hide() rotation = Vec3(0,0,45) print(self.entity:CountChildren()) local child = self.entity:GetChild(0) print(child:CountChildren()) print(child:GetPosition():ToString()) local child1 = child:GetChild(0) print(child1:CountChildren()) print(child1:GetPosition():ToString()) child1:SetRotation(rotation) -- to check if we are actually manipulating the child of a child child1:Hide() -- the rotated csg should diassapear end Results:

I have a bunch of models that I loaded in the Leadwerks editor. Lets use a broken wall with holes in it for an example to avoid the "just a csg" solution. I want to be able to apply a different texture to a single wall, lets say instead of red bricks I want to use cinder blocks. Is there a way to force the editor to load a non instanced model?

When clicking on a rotated object or while rotating the object in the view-port, the control widget no longer rotates with it.

Hi guys, without a steam_appid.txt my application runs slower than with, especially map loading. I am curious, is anyone experiencing the same? Cheers, Bryan

Hey this has to do and not to do with leadwerks but could you give me some thoughts about this laptop as of the summer this will become my main working machine (when i buy it). What do you think of it will it run leadwerks good? Specs page: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&dlc=en&docname=c04077218&lc=en&jumpid=reg_r1002_usen_c-001_title_r0001 over all look page: http://www8.hp.com/pt/pt/products/laptops/product-detail.html?oid=6782267#!tab=specs Hope you can take look.

Making a large mall level, not many brushes, but i'm running into issues with the occlusion simply being greedy. If you are looking in one direction and then turn to look at a wall 180 degrees behind you, it's has been culled and takes around .5 seconds to appear. Is there a way to stop this behavior? I don't know if this is something to do with the lua version or not. An scenario for why I need it changed: You are running through the mall being chased. You do a split second 180 to look behind you, to see where your pursuer is. The map behind you isn't there. The map renders from the farthest object from you, and comes closer to you, allowing you to see through all the walls and know where everything is. This simply is unacceptable for a twitch based shooter, and I would assume it would be further exaggerated if the game was multiplayer. It gets progressively worse the more populated the world is. Map to test with. Prerequisites: Fullscreen 1080p, vsync on (self.context:Sync(true)) Mall.zip

Hello! I think that you should add another thread specifically for tutorials. We can see that the community is growing in numbers daily, and we could use something like this. I feel like it would keep the General Discussion thread neater, and would make it easier for someone new to locate help (besides the default text documentation).

Good day yesterday I wrote Josh Clint but he did not answer. I decided to write about this here, I'm interested to poluchaetsya that after additions to the standard version of indy version will not be updated? for the last couple of weeks I did not have more than one update.

Hey, I think the camera pick is no longer working properly, other people also have this issue. This is the code i tried it with: if (wd->KeyHit(Key::E)){ Vec2 mousepos = wd->GetMousePosition(); if (cam->Pick(mousepos.x, mousepos.y, pickinfo, 0)){ if (pickinfo.entity->GetKeyValue("tag") == "dbutton"){ //pickinfo.entity->SetKeyValue("tag", ""); System::Print("Entity picked, distance: " + String(pickinfo.distance)); pickinfo.entity->Hide(); } } } My problems are: The pick is only working if I'm so close to the object, that I'm touching it. And the pickdistance is everytime -1 Hope you can fix that. Btw: I tried picking csg boxes and models (Yes, I attached a empty lua script to these boxes). If you need more info here is the full thread in which some people and me discussed this.

Hey , Is there any possibility to play a animation sequence without much effort, or do I have to create my own animation manager? And how should my animation manager look like? I thought about simply editing the current animation frame (like: I set the animation frame first to 1 and every 300ms or so I will switch to the next.)( and should I do this in a extra thread maybe?) - Mex

Hey guys! It's me Cody here. I have been messing around a lot with Leadwerks 3, mostly programming. I want to start a small game project, and get a feel of what it's like collaberating with other people with the same interests. As much as I hate to say it, I know what type of game I would like to make. The only reason I want to make this type of game is because it is quite simple, a FPS. I think that this would be the easiest one to make because it has no story, lots of re-used props, etc. Right now I'm thinking that this will be a community project, if you would like to participate and help, then it would be very much so appreciated! If anywhere down the road a team develops and we decide to change that, then this post will be updated. Right now these are the positions I'm looking for: 3D Modeler(s) Concept Artist (?) Anyone with experience in animation in LE3 Level Designer 2D Artist (Splashes, scopes, etc.) ​ Now onto more of the game aspects. Anything with a (?) next to it is subject to change. As of right now we need these assets: - A male army character (doesnt need to be rigged or textured) - A female army character (doesnt need to be rigged or textured) - A fighter jet - Some Guns I would like for this to be more of a COD and Battle Field mix. I think it would be nice to have some more open world levels, and some closer combat levels... that way it appeals to both sides of the spectrum. This game will be modern, not futuristic, not past. Classes Medic: This classes main role will be to assist the other players. You will start out with a basic health pack that you can heal other players with. You will be carrying mostly (?) SMG's so that you can be more mobile. But how good is an army if they are all bleeding to death? Gunner: The gunners role is to shoot 'em all down. You will be carrying mostly Heavy Machine Guns and some (?) Light Machine Guns. Lock n' Load. CCQ: The name escapes me right now, but this will be your standard soldier who carries Assault Rifles, SMG's, and LMG's (Light machine guns). You will be the guy who rushes in, and takes out the enemy without fear. Sniper: Your standard sniper class. You get to be the guy who sits back, and blows some heads off! You start with a low damage sniper rifle. Anti "Quick Scoping" is a main thing I want to cover, this should be more realistic. Engineer: Your job is to repair the vehicles used in bigger maps. From planes to helicopters to humvee's its all you. The goal of this game is... wait. It's an FPS, there is no goal! This game will be multiplayer only (?). You unlock better weapons by buying them with in game currency. You collect this currency by how good you do in your matches. If there is anything that you have questions on please ask! Just in case you missed it at the top, Anything with a (?) next to it is subject to change. Thank you for your time reading this, the application process is below. First Name: Position Applying for: Long Term Or Short Term Help?: How much Time Do you Have?: Skype Name: [PM if not comfortable sharing] Email: [PM if not comfortable sharing] For one time helpers please PM me! You will be included in the credits / thanks. Edited for McBerto.

I want to create an inventory. I imagine this as a table that contains names of items that player has in the inventory. When the player opens inventory menu, script loads prefab of the first item in the inventory, display it's icon and values such as damage or price, and the it does it for all other items in the table. But Prefab:Load also creates an entity. Of course for icon I can just take a name of the item and open a picture with this name, but how should I get item's stats?

Is it possible to create geometry in a script at runtime? I'm looking to convert a voxel engine (Minecraft terrain) I made in Unity3d to Leadwerks, but I don't know what can and can't be done in Lua. I need to be able to create a mesh using polygons (not just creating cubes). Can this be done? and if so, how?