APEXnow Posted Monday at 12:05 AM Share Posted Monday at 12:05 AM Hey all, I've been out of the picture for some time due to family responsibilities, but I decided to fire up Ultra Engine Pro recently, and discovered that I could no longer log in. No problem, I downloaded the new host client application and problem was solved. I still think that there were some issues with my system so I've literally wiped off all old versions of Visual Studio (2008/2012/2019) and free'd up space by getting rid of old dev tools that I no longer use. Refreshed the installation of Ultra Engine, and by the way, there is much confusion on the naming of the software because I have Ultra Engine 0.9.8 Build 1891 installed, and yet the site refers to LeadWerks 5. This isn't a complaint, but clarification would be helpful. I decided to move with the LUA version for now, although I am quite adept with C++. Josh may know me from the old days of TGC as I wrote the Cartography Shop utility for converting Hammer MAP files to Cartography Shop CSM files. It's obvious that the map editor has advanced somewhat since the CS days. After ensuring that everything (Ultra Engine) had been re-installed, I created a new project based on the Lua and VRGame template. There were no others. The new project doesn't use the droid or boxes stacked up anymore. Instead it appears to be a VR blue character stuck inside an office room with a desk and chair etc. After running the project straight out of the box, all I get is a black screen! I started looking into the documentation for LUA components and figured that the FPSPlayer component wasn't getting initialised or something. But I am not clear as to what is going on because I expected the sample template to run without any issues. Can you help? Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted Monday at 01:44 AM Share Posted Monday at 01:44 AM Hi, So I decided to go with the original engine's name "Leadwerks" since it is more distrinctive. 2/3 of people in a poll here said they still preferred the original name, and there is a lot of awareness of that brand in the public's mind. I have been changing everything over one piece at a time, trying to do things a little each week so there isn't too much happening too quickly. When you create a new project, you should have three choices for the type. Either blank, First-person shooter, or VR. The VR game will require a headset, which it sounds like maybe you did not have one plugged in? Anyways, you should have options for blank and FPS projects in the projection creation dialog. Sorry for the confusion, this is all the final cleanup before full release. Early access is the best time to make changes, once full release hits things will be locked in. 1 hour ago, APEXnow said: It's obvious that the map editor has advanced somewhat since the CS days. I think it has gotten a bit better. 2 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Josh Posted Monday at 04:35 AM Solution Share Posted Monday at 04:35 AM Oh, I should note, for the standalone if you want an FPS game you need to download and install this free DLC: https://www.leadwerks.com/community/store/category/2-dlcs/ It's a big file and I did not want to distribute it through the normal updates system, and have multiple copies of it for each version. This may get moved into the integrated downloads system I am working on in the future, to be more convenient. 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APEXnow Posted Monday at 09:54 AM Author Share Posted Monday at 09:54 AM Hi Josh, Thanks for the link because I re-installed the software and the FPS project template was not available. I'll download the DLC and try again. Looking forward to more updates. Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APEXnow Posted Monday at 10:28 AM Author Share Posted Monday at 10:28 AM Josh, Can you resolve the site's certificate issue because I can't download the DLCs as it won't let me add them to the cart for download. I think the site's certificate has expired. Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted Monday at 12:40 PM Share Posted Monday at 12:40 PM Yeah, I just got that this morning. It looks like the SSL cert recently auto-renewed. It should be valid until April 5th of 2026. I am investigating with the hosting company now... 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APEXnow Posted Monday at 02:07 PM Author Share Posted Monday at 02:07 PM Ahh brilliant. Many thanks Josh, that resolved it. Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APEXnow Posted Monday at 10:37 PM Author Share Posted Monday at 10:37 PM Hi Josh, Is it possible that this FPS Template is not fully compatible with the new version v0.9.8 Build 1891? I downloaded the template although it took a very long time because the server speed is along the lines of 66kbs! I created a new project from the template, but it won't load the .map file. I thought maybe the file download was corrupted so I'm downloading again, but it's nowhere near finished. Are you able to just check to ensure that the template works correctly? Kind regards, Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted Monday at 11:16 PM Share Posted Monday at 11:16 PM I'm sorry, a lot of things changed rather quickly. I believe if you just rename the file start.map to start.ultra it will work as expected. 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted Monday at 11:17 PM Share Posted Monday at 11:17 PM Alternatively, you can opt into the /dev channel by uninstalling from the client, selecting the /dev channel, and then downloading again. 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APEXnow Posted 17 hours ago Author Share Posted 17 hours ago Thanks Josh, Much appreciated. Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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