So after a quick, prompt to mentoring session from Josh about how to use Lua, I learned a lot. Hear are just a few things.
Each Lua project has its own virtual stack. Here is what this means. Each Leadwerks project, when running, creates it own virtual, global, stack. You can use this just like a normal stack in C/C++ except is done in a more explicit manner. In C, you call functions and the function along with the parameters are pushed onto the stack. When you exit the function, the f
I've added display pages to the games database, so you can now fill in more information about your game, receive comments, post a video, and add additional images if you wish:
http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/games/_/rogue-system-r17
In the future I will add a file upload option so you can distribute your games here if you want to. Some games in the Downloads section have received a pretty high number of downloads, even though they were hidden away and weren't promoted at all:
http
So as many of you may know, before the release of Leadwerk 3.0 I was working on a castle defense type game. With the release of Leadwerks 3.0, I was unable to get my models to import properly. It has been a while since then as I didn't have any ideas for a game for me to work on, as well as time and inspiration to work on one. I also got a new job as a C# developer which will help me become a better programmer. I've also been taking classes and just life in general. I have recently gotten a
As described earlier, Oculus Rift support is now enabled on the beta branch on Steam!
Enabling VR To enable VR in any game, just add the Window::VRDisplay flag in the creation flags in the Window::Create() function:
Window* window = Window::Create("My VR Game",0,0,1024,768,Window::Titlebar|Window::VRDisplay);
Or in Lua:
local window = Window:Create("My VR Game",0,0,1024,768,Window.Titlebar + Window.VRDisplay)
(If you are using a Lua project, you must update the project to
As you probably noticed, I've been playing around with the Oculus Rift DK2 and it's really neat! With Klepto's help I was able to get it running and integrated into the engine very quickly. Beta support will be added soon so you can play with it yourself. Why is it beta? Because it is possible some behavior may change, particularly the way head rotation is handled. Also, it only works on Windows at this point. I'm waiting for OculusVR to add direct HMD rendering for Linux, because without
My first baby steps will be:
A first set of prefabs for modular dungeon layout
Floor
Ceiling
Wall
Up stairwell
Down stairwell
[*]Dynamically build the dungeon with Lua based on a hard-coded layout
[*]Use stairs to move between levels
That's it for the first set of goals! Gotta keep it simple and doable. So far I've got floor, ceiling, and wall prefabs done and I'm starting to look into dynamically placing them with Lua. The textures and geometry are just whatever I c
About Tinyboss Games
Well, it's just me making games in my spare time. I've got two games published on the Google Play Store, Coinbox Clicker and Coinbox Clicker 2. These were developed with Corona SDK, which is a pretty nice tool for authoring mobile games with Lua.
I've always stayed away from 3D games due to the complexity, but Leadwerks had a 50% sale on Steam and I saw that it uses Lua as well, so thought I'd give it a try. So far it looks like it'll be feasible to make a game I
The Leadwerks FPS Weapons Pack is now available on Steam as a DLC. The FPS Weapons Pack provides a small arsenal of game-ready weapons, with no coding required. Drag these objects into your map for the player to pick up and use. Pulverize your enemies with a machete, .22 pistol, combat shotgun, MP5 submachine gun and an M4 carbine. Each weapon includes sounds, effects, animations, and scripted behavior that make it ready-to-use in your Leadwerks games.
The pack can be purchased with a 15% d
Very early video just showing the terrain and character movement. And some generated buildings.
Things working/worked on so far:
The 'terrain' is generated at runtime using perlin noise and Surface:AddVertex(), :SetVertexColor(), :SetVertexNormal(), etc
Character controller written from scratch, not using the builtin controller.
Shader for the terrain uses a combination of diffuse material, vertex colour, and triangle normal. The diffuse material is black and white, the edges a
I ordered my Oculus Rift DK2 in the middle of August and it finally arrived two days ago. Here are my quick impressions.
Unboxing and Setup The box comes with a convenient carrying handle, so it makes a nice case. Upon opening it, the parts were pretty straightforward with no assembly required. There's an extra pair of lenses to extend the focal length or something like that, but I didn't use them.
Setup was pretty difficult. There's an excessive number of cords. A USB and HDMI cable p
An update is available on the beta branch. This fixes the picked triangle always returning 0 bug, and it adds a new dialog for managing Workshop add-ons on a project by project basis.
I tried to keep the addon management dialog unobtrusive, but I still didn't want the user to be confused if they subscribed to a new Workshop item and didn't see it show up. The dialog appears automatically if you have added a new item, but otherwise it will stay hidden unless you open it with the Workshop &g
The second Leadwerks Halloween Game Tournament is complete. Here's a review of the entries.
First up is HaydenMango's hack & slash game Rise of the Pumpkinheads. In this humorous and spooky action game you fight reanimated corpses with...wait for it...pumpkins for heads. You'll also encounter necromancers, and other enemies along your quest through the overgrown cemetery where a pumpkin infestation has taken root.
Next up is Midnight Patrol, a simple but fun shooter featuring
I've got my models and a little time to put this together, so I am starting on my Halloween Game Tournament entry now. This will be an exercise in speed-developing!
Basically, I just want to make a game where you fly a ship through an asteroid field shooting meteors. To spice things up, I'm going to add pumpkins that appear after the first level, and are attracted to your ship:
The game asset requirements are very simple. Here are my main models:
So now I'm going to a
It's the week of Halloween, and we've got a lot going on!
Halloween Game Tournament II The Leadwerks Halloween Game Tournament is nearly here. Rather than a competition, this is a co-opetition. Everyone who publishes an entry to the Workshop or forum gets a Leadwerks sticker. Any entries that are judged to be especially noteworthy get a Leadwerks T-shirt. Prizes are sitting here waiting to be shipped.
Leadwerks 3.3 Leadwerks 3.3 is in beta testing now. Among several new features is
Hey!
Made some progress on the art for Phobia. Modelled a metallic bench on wheels for surgical tools, a pillow, and done some changes to the wall textures. I'm really satisfied with how it is turning out.
Also modified shad's toon shader, and the result is pretty awesome!
The shader is now less cartoony, but enhances the scene in a number of ways! I get a PBR effect, the materials and lighting comes out much better, and it really adds a dirty horror feel to the entire scene.
Wor
Hello guys!
As mentioned on the Hostile thread, Roland and myself have joined the guys from Narcoleptic Studios to work on the psychological horror adventure game Phobia.
It will be a pleasure to work with such devoted and talented guys, and i'm very happy to be part of the team.
Together we have enough talent to develop an outstanding product, and create a game experience you'll not easily forget.
During the development, i'll be posting screenies of WIP models and art that i cr
The beta of Leadwerks 3.3 is now available on the beta branch on Steam.
Two new entity classes that extend the model class are present. Sprites are a quad that can face the camera, a specific direction, or can rotate around one axis. These are useful for lighting effects and the axis rotation is great for making laser beams or tracer rounds.
The Lensflare class extends the sprite class and adds a simple glow effect for lighting.
The editor now support shift-drag to select in the ma
The Workshop system is a great way to share content, but I've come across some limitations. Most of these have to do with the use a "virtual" file system (using Workshop package IDs).
Scripts and shaders can't be debugged because these systems expect a file path. With Workshop files, there is a file name and an ID number. This makes Shadmar's cool effects difficult to access, among other things.
Interdependent files are very difficult to work with, because when you upload them to the Wor
As I finish up the FPS Weapons Pack, I am struck by just how much work it takes to build a game, beyond the engine programming. I wrote Leadwerks, and it still took me several days to script the behavior of these weapons. I also had the advantage of being able to add new entity classes, as I needed two new entity types to complete the task: LensFlares and Sprites.
I like the flexibility of Leadwerks to make any type of game, and I think having an abstract 3D command set to do anything is r
The Leadwerks community tends to be a pretty mature, technically astute one. This is great because it's easy to get good feedback and help, but we do tend to suffer from a tendency to focus on low-level details. This can cause problems with it delays projects, sometimes infinitely. If all we do is keep reinventing the wheel we'll never get to the automobile.
Preparing the FPS weapons pack is giving me a chance to work on some high-level game behavior I don't get to do much. Sometimes we t
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.
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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 reac
A launch option has been added to Leadwerks on Steam that allows you to launch the Leadwerks Game Player outside of the editor. When you launch Leadwerks Game Engine from Steam, a dialog box appears and lets you choose whether to run the editor or the Leadwerks Game Player. (If you just launch the app from a desktop or start menu shortcut, the editor is run automatically.) You can subscribe to other users' games in the Leadwerks Workshop on Steam, and play them by launching the game player.
I've been working on my game tournament entry for a few weeks. I've had to scrap entire levels multiple times but I think I finally have something that i'll be happy with. Now that my work schedule has changed I doubt i'll have much time to work on my game as I would like.
Not much to do but show you the pictures.
*All models are made by me except for the tree and flowers (they're in the workshop). Textures are from or modified from cgtextures and plaintextures.
I placed them all into a
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