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Penumbra was available since March 6th 2009 on Steam. I'm not sure what the finally available thing is...I've had it since then.

I guess something is wrong with your link: "ReCast is an icecast2-compatible streaming server supporting MP3 and Ogg Vorbis streams out of the box. Logging can be enabled for any source (making it very suitable for radio stations where logging is compulsory) and clients can request any time range..."

perhaps he means finally 'on sale' as a pack?

 

I'm glad he pointed it out, cause I took the $10 'risk' to get both games.

 

 

(*edit* interesting...I see: Penumbra: Black Plague, Penumbra: Overture, and

Penumbra: Requiem in my Steam games tab...guess it's 3 games for $10?)

Last time I talked to the author, he said he was having trouble getting a response from Valve, so it being on Steam is news to me. I'm glad it worked out for them.

 

Penumbra is the model of an efficient and successful low-budget game. Everything about it is designed to minimize required production resources and maximize the depth of experience. For example, use of an intercom system allows them to have personal interaction with another character, and the only resources it requires are voice acting.

Framewe(o?)rk is now implemented in C# and available for download. Took me an hour and a half only. Awesome work, thanks again.

By the way, I was re-reading this entry when something puzzled me: You try to provide a "low" level engine (comparatively to Framewerk) and hesitate about integrating high-level commands (Framewerk's) into your DLL for access. Although I must say that if you started scripting, you can no longer consider your engine "low-level", and such rendering methods are just at the same level as scripting a game in the editor.

You could still use the buffer commands to write your own rendering routines, though I doubt anyone will do that in Lua.

 

I'm glad we are moving upwards, and not wallowing around in the fundamentals anymore.

You could still use the buffer commands to write your own rendering routines, though I doubt anyone will do that in Lua.

 

I'm glad we are moving upwards, and not wallowing around in the fundamentals anymore.

It wasn't a criticism, I was just wondering. I like the new system too, and although I'm not a Lua fan, I will surely enjoy the compiled Framework. The only thing I use Lua for is "prefabs" (attaching a point light to my lamp post), which could ideally be replaced by actual prefabs.

I tried to get into Lua. I just can't get past the horrible syntax of Lua and the complete hack of OOP. Ugly.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for scripting. I would just prefer a scripting language with a syntax that sticks closer to the clean...well at least familiar syntax of C/C++. Hands down my favorite scripting languages are TorqueScript and JavaScript. I hate the Torque engine but the scripting syntax of TorqueScript is awesome.

is this feature related to this issue ? http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/topic/480-removing-null-framewerk-message/page__hl__null framewerk__fromsearch__1

 

do you mean C++ and lua code can share the same framework ? layer worlds and cameras can be created in c++ and used in lua ? or the opposite ?

 

will you provide a sample tutorial of mixing c++ code and lua ? for example loading the scene with lua to get exact same result as the editor and running the game with c++ ?

 

 

EDIT: okay, i finally understood, it's about the new framework commands included in the LE header. And i got some explanations on how it works in the Getting_Started_With_Lua.pdf tutorial. For me it's a good,solution , because i don't want to modify the framewerk... but i still wonder how others will be able to mod the framewerk now ? i don't understand how its possible ?

I'll add a mechanism whereby you can add a postfilter effect into the renderer.

 

Lua's OO implementation is a bit weird, but in the end you can still go entity:SetPosition(), so I am happy with it.