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Seems like a lot of work, but very cool. 

11 minutes ago, reepblue said:

Seems like a lot of work, but very cool. 

Thanks. In fact, everything is very simple?

One question: Are compilation times equal to c++?

12 minutes ago, Iris3D Games said:

One question: Are compilation times equal to c++?

What do you mean?
C# uses functions from the dynamic library, and she does not need to compile engine functions.

Update:
Compile time is equal to the size of your C# project?

looks interesting i will have a play later as am learning c# at the moment so this be fun to try  

3 hours ago, IgorBgz90 said:

Thanks. In fact, everything is very simple?

Not a C# user, so bare with me.

From the looks of it, it seems you need to export every fiction call via a wrapper function. Wouldn't that just be silly in real use cases? I'm sure there is a better way. 

Still neat tho.

1 minute ago, reepblue said:

Not a C# user, so bare with me.

From the looks of it, it seems you need to export every fiction call via a wrapper function. Wouldn't that just be silly in real use cases? I'm sure there is a better way. 

Still neat tho.

Oh yeah! Not the best option, but the other I do not know?

9 minutes ago, carlb said:

looks interesting i will have a play later as am learning c# at the moment so this be fun to try  

Thanks. But keep in mind that there is only the initialization of the rendering engine, and that's all. If you want more, you will have to export other engine functions?

Hi, 

I'm working on a similar project and i'm currently preparing a github repo for my Wrapper. It will still take some time and cleanup until it is up, but it will provide full access to the API (same as in lua + some extras). Meanwhile you may take a look http://www.swig.org/ or https://github.com/mono/CppSharp for generating bridges between Cpp and CSharp. The nicer way would be CppSharp, but i can't get the parser to work, so i will stick with swig. 

Currently a small sample looks like this:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Leadwerks.Core;

namespace Leadwerks.Test
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            List<Entity> entities = new List<Entity>();

            Window window = Window.Create();
            Context context = Context.Create(window);
            World world = World.Create();
            world.SetLightQuality(2);
            Camera camera = Camera.Create();
            camera.SetRotation(35f, 0f, 0f);
            camera.Move(0f, 0f, -6f);
            Light light = DirectionalLight.Create();
            light.SetRotation(35, 35, 0);
            entities.Add(light);
            Model model = null;

            model = Model.Box();
            model.SetColor(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
            model.SetPosition(-4, 1, 0);
            entities.Add(model);

            model = Model.Cylinder();
            model.SetColor(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
            model.SetPosition(-2, 1, 0);
            entities.Add(model);

            model = Model.Cone();
            model.SetColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
            model.SetPosition(0, 1, 0);
            entities.Add(model);

            model = Model.Sphere();
            model.SetColor(0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
            model.SetPosition(2, 1, 0);
            entities.Add(model);

            model = Model.Create();
            model.SetColor(1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
            model.SetPosition(4, 1, 0);
            entities.Add(model);

            Surface surface = model.AddSurface();
            surface.AddVertex(-0.5f, -0.5f, 0, 0, 0, -1);
            surface.AddVertex(0.5f, -0.5f, 0, 0, 0, -1);
            surface.AddVertex(0.5f, 0.5f, 0, 0, 0, -1);
            surface.AddVertex(-0.5f, 0.5f, 0, 0, 0, -1);
            surface.AddTriangle(2, 1, 0);
            surface.AddTriangle(0, 3, 2);
            surface.UpdateAABB();
            model.UpdateAABB(Entity.LocalAABB | Entity.GlobalAABB);
            model.Move(0,0.25f,0);
            entities.Add(model);

            Terrain terrain = Terrain.Create(512);
           
            while (true)
            {
                if (window.KeyDown(Key.Escape)) return;

                foreach(var entity in entities)
                    entity.Turn(0.1f,0.1f,0.1f);

                Time.Update();
                world.Update();
                world.Render();

                context.DrawText("Hello World", 20, 20, 100, 100, 1);
                context.DrawText("Hello World", 20, 40);
                context.Sync();
            }
        }
    }
}

 

A small hint: 

if you take a closer look into the Include directory you will find this: DLLExport.h

This file already contains a lot of exports yu may use as it is the dll code used for the editor.

I think in the new engine especially, C# will be a viable option.

• Your game code gets 16 milliseconds to execute independently from the rendering thread so there are no worries about performance.
• When using the auto keyword for variables, the only different between C# and C++ code will be to replace "->" with ".".

Now in the new engine we are relaying more on standard containers, because my new Lua binding code handles them better. There is no CountChildren() or CountVertices(), there is just a vector of objects that contains those things:

for (int n=0; n < entity->kids.size(); ++n)
{
	entity->kids[n]->Hide();
}

This says support is experimental. Maybe inquire with the developer and if it will work in the near future I can use vectors more and avoid unsupported container types:
https://github.com/mono/CppSharp/blob/master/docs/UsersManual.md#containers

7 hours ago, klepto2 said:

A small hint: 

if you take a closer look into the Include directory you will find this: DLLExport.h

This file already contains a lot of exports yu may use as it is the dll code used for the editor.

Thanks! As it did not pay attention to him ?

12 minutes ago, IgorBgz90 said:

This file already contains a lot of exports yu may use as it is the dll code used for the editor.

It turns out that there is no need to export functions, they already exist in the file "Leadwerks.dll"?)

It would be pretty sweet to see C# get some love in LE. I know many have tried in the past and it just didn't work out well but C# is a great language!

4 hours ago, Rick said:

It would be pretty sweet to see C# get some love in LE. I know many have tried in the past and it just didn't work out well but C# is a great language!

I don't see any technical problems, it's just a matter of maintaining a lot of wrapper code, which is why an automated approach would be best.

I took a look at SWIG but could not immediately make heads or tails of it.

On 6/1/2019 at 12:23 AM, Josh said:

 I don't see any technical problems, it's just a matter of maintaining a lot of wrapper code, which is why an automated approach would be best.

 I took a look at SWIG but could not immediately make heads or tails of it.

Why not make it a plugin for Turbo or would that not be feasible?