Leadworks & Perforce

[MadCat]

Hi

I'm interested in knowing if Leadworks would work with Perforce?

[AggrorJorn]

It looks somewhat similar to SVN so you are good to go. Just remember that map files can't be merged, but code files are no problem. 

Other version systems that works well are SVN, git and mercurial.

[MadCat]

Can you connect the engine to source like Unreal4 engine to show who has check it what in a project?

[AggrorJorn]

8 hours ago, MadCat said:

Can you connect the engine to source like Unreal4 engine to show who has check it what in a project?

Sorry I don't understand what you mean by that. 

 

[MadCat]

It's hard to explain but have a look at this link

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Basics/SourceControl/Perforce/

 

[AggrorJorn]

Ah I see what you mean. The option to check out files works regardless of software you are using btw. Subversion and TeamFoundationService do the same thing. 

Leadwerks .map files are binary files which makes them impossible files to merge with text editors/mergers. If you use Git you can not exclusively checkout files, but work with local copies and having to to merge with an existing branch.

[MadCat]

Ok cool

What do you mean by map files can't be merged?

[Rick]

It means you can't have 2 or more people work on the same map at the same time and then merge them together like you can source files. So be careful if working in a team.

[MadCat]

Right got it

Will Leadworks make a plugin for Perforce at sometime soon maybe, hint hint

[AggrorJorn]

I really doubt that, but feel free to shoot in a suggestion. I know Josh uses subversion himself. Would be even better to have map support that you can merge.

[Josh]

The only way maps could be merged would be a text file format, which means loading would be much slower. Terrain data and some other things would still have to be binary in a separate file because that would take forever to load from strings.