As promised in the previous blog entry we will now start introducing our game characters to you.
Characters in Remaining Days are normal people, just like you and me. Each character is supplied with a default weapon and bonus capabilities. Default weapons are reaching from pistols to melee weapons and everything in between We will provide additional information on what bonus capabilities are and how they work soon. In the meantime, just think of Mario kart’s power ups, that’s where our insp
Last week I travelled to Seattle for a few days to lay some groundwork for the future of Leadwerks Software. During the week I tried out Valve's VR hardware, visited a gassification plant, and survived a trifecta of astrological phenomenon.
Steam VR Although I attended Steam Dev Days, I did not get a chance to demo Valve's virtual reality hardware. I was invited by one employee to come back and check it out, so I decided to take them up on that offer last week.
Valve's VR is improved over
I'm pleased to announce the return of the much-beloved header banners. They now scale across the width of the page, similar to the profile images on Twitter and Google+.
To add a banner image of your own, click the ]submit a banner link in the site footer. I recommend JPEG images with a resolution around 1920x300. However, your image dimensions do not have to be exact, as the image will be scaled and trimmed to fit the space.
You can also add an optional URL to link the banner to. If
Today I’m giving you a short insight into our upcoming game called “Remaining Days”. Remaining Days is a first person multiplayer survival shooter. It relays heavily on a day and night cycle and it’s your goal to survive as many cycles as possible! During night phases you and your fellows fight against hordes of zombies, including occasional boss fights. After sunrise you’ll restock your ammunition, build barricades, traps, find new weapons and groceries to survive!
Our goal is to develop a
Imagination...
The brain's greatest asset... Whether creating a game engine as Josh has done, programming or creating a game plus artwork in general, imagination is the most basic nature of a human being..
This 3D WIP humanoid concept started out as a 3D sphere and evolved into what it is now at it's present stage... Artistic direction is what we need in a game or piece of art to keep us on track but it is always first from our imagination...
What you see, you can create!
Wow, two updates in two days! This one adds new features and bug fixes.
Fixes
http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/10019-directional-lights-dont-cast-shadows/
http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/10030-values-in-appearance-tab-ignored/
http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/10020-values-in-entities-general-tab-stuck/
http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/8138-pointlight-viewrange-bug
http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/9919-wobbly-fbx-imports/
New Features
Globa
This is just a little walk down memory lane that pleasantly shows what has led to where we are today. Some of this predates the name "Leadwerks" entirely.
Cartography Shop (2003)
3D World Studio (2004)
Leadwerks Game Engine 2 (2008)
Leadwerks Game Engine 3 (2013)
A new build has been pushed out on the beta branch on Steam. This update increments the map file format. Maps saved from the beta build cannot be opened in the standalone build until the update goes out everywhere.
The editor now has the option to use a centimeter grid. The previous meter-based grid is still available in the viewport tab in the options dialog. This is important because it allows us to more easily line brush geometry up to textures. By default, a 1024x1024 texture will m
In order to get ready for the Workshop, and to get ready to implement texture locking, some preliminary work needed to be done. First, I needed to improve the CSG texture mapping routine. It was modified to take into account a texture's dimensions. This means that wide flat textures like this trim piece will be mapped to their texel area, not with the same aspect ratio as a square image:
The default mapping scale is that 1024 texels maps to 256 centimeters. This ensures it is easy to l
It's pretty clear that constructive solid geometry modeling is a high priority for our community. I like being able to easily sketch out my ideas. In fact, when this feature went away in Leadwerks 2, that was when I just stopped making game levels. It's not that I don't know how to use 3ds Max and other programs, it's just that they're not fun. The upcoming release of Steam Workshop also fulfills my long-held dream of building a shared repository of textures and models scaled correctly to wo
The beta branch on Steam is updated with a new build.
Fixes and Enhancements The camera movement options have been made more sane. The range of possible values is a little more practical now. A mouse smoothing option has been added that makes the camera motion in the perspective viewport feel a lot more smooth and natural. I also found a bug that caused the camera move speed to change when a map was loaded. It was an annoyance that was almost unnoticeable but it feels much better now.
T
One of the coolest things I'm seeing in Leadwerks 3 is a lot of minigames being made. These are finished products, without super high expectations, but they are complete, don't take long to make, and some are quite fun. Seeing these gave me an idea for a feature that's been in development in the background for some time, and when you see what it does, it will explain some of the design decisions I've made over the last few months.
The next build on the beta branch on Steam will support Lua
Following completion of a successful Kickstarter campaign to bring Leadwerks’ game development software to Linux, Leadwerks and Canonical have joined forces to make Leadwerks Game Engine available in the Ubuntu Software Center. This provides Ubuntu users with a powerful tool for rapid game development.
Bringing Leadwerks Game Engine to Ubuntu also means that existing games can be more easily deployed for Ubuntu. The lineup of featured games on the Leadwerks website covers a diverse range o
The animation pipeline continues to established.
This time using Blender's animation tools and the rig I created to make a walk cycle.
We needed to start testing some animations in Leadwerks. Rick will test soon and according to his information we can find tune and figure out any problems.
The rig has only the control bones now showing. Next is to create the control shapes and those will hide the control bones.
I am glad the old days of just having paper manuals is history. Manuals
As Dave is texturing, I started to build our first basic character rig from scratch. Soon we can give some animations to Rick to start testing and working on. This rig still has a few problems but all in all works well. The rig can be adjusted to meet varied human type of characters.
I am working on creating this production pipeline, from creating rigs, exporting out of blender and importing the animations (working correctly) into Leadwerks.
The rig in the picture is shown with all the a
Gui's at the moment seem to be all the rage on the Leadwerks forum. We have the recent release of the noesisGUI, Patrik's showing of his gui's progress, and tjheldna's release of tjui and probaly many others. I also decided to try my hand at gui creation.
Coming from a BASIC background (started with qb 1.0), I don't have the proper skills to use a third party gui without malloc errors or segfaulting everything. That, and my game is a lua game. Taking inspiration from Tjhldna's gui I started
Leadwerks Game Engine on Steam and standalone versions have received a major update that include enhancements to the workflow and new features.
The FBX model importer will now auto-generate materials for imported models, and select the appropriate shader to use. This even works with animated models that use GPU skinning, so it's super easy to get new models into Leadwerks. Other enhancements include support for multi-track animations and animation sequence names.
Lua script post effe
I think of the Leadwerks community as a big loosely affiliated collaborative game studio. I see people working together to add value in different ways. Some are dedicated to a single project, and others bounce around and participate in different projects. I like that everyone can just find what they like doing best and provide value in that way.
Voluntary collaboration, without being too restrictive, allows us to achieve economies of scale, while diversifying risk. Basically that means i
Since I am working with the Blender import pipeline and also getting artists onboard the Steam Workshop, it makes sense to work out any little details in the art pipeline that can be improved. One of these is the texture import process.
Leadwerks 3.0 was designed to function across PC and mobile, and one of the compromises that had to be made was texture compression. There is no universally supported texture compression format on mobile, while the PC has several variations of DXT compressi
I will write various articles as we progress through the making of Phobia.
Our team Dave, Rick, Rose and myself are like the Leadwerks promo states "turning players into game makers". In the end hopefully some things we learn you can use as well.
As Josh said marketing is considered before one line of code is written so it is with modelling, UV set creation and texture \ normal map workflows.
My first job as I saw it when I joined the Phobia team was to establish a modelling and tex
The lean startup methodology posits that life is to short to build a product no one wants. The old way of doing business involved a limited number of companies with very high barriers to entry adopting a "push" strategy. Sears could effectively create demand for a product by choosing what they wanted to feature prominently in their mail-order catalog. Television advertisers could craft a promotional strategy that would reliably result in a certain response. Those days are over, fortunately,
We are proud to announce a version of noesisGUI compatible with Leadwerks 3.1.
In the last weeks we have been working very hard to provide an integration of our GUI framework into Leadwerks. The result of this work if the following layer (still in beta phase):
https://github.com/FourthQuarter/NoesisLeadwerksWrapper
Kudos for Bryan for helping us a lot with this integration!
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I'm happy to say I nailed the design of the Leadwerks 3 workflow overall, but there are a couple of places where there's still some friction. Because the community is going to soon be moving a lot of content into the Steam Workshop, now is a good time to take a look at those issues. It's also smart to address them before the Blender exporter is written.
A new update has been pushed out to the beta branch on Steam that contains a lot of improvements in this area. However, both the map and
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