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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 are coloured by multiplying with the surface normal, and the whole triangle is coloured by adding the vertex colours. Crappy weapon viewmodel just for testing. Somewhat accidental skybox effect. If I can find a better 'digital sky' I'll probably change it. This is just crazy cos,sin x,y,z stuff. Using Shadmar's Dof and Bloom shaders.

You need to get the 'length' of their velocity, that will tell you how fast they are moving. You could then multiply JUMPBOOST by that value, but you should probably limit the multiplier to a certain range. I don't know how you do it in C but Lua is easy. local Velocity = ent:GetVelocity() local Speed = Velocity:GetLength() local JumpPower = JUMPBOOST*Speed; --todo: if Speed is 0, what will you do?

Is it possible to attach a script to an entity created with code? My searching suggests that there was a function called Entity:SetScript() but I can't find it when searching the documentation (and I am not at the computer with LeadWerks to test it right now). EDIT: Ok it looks like Entity:SetScript() does exist but isn't documented. Some documentation would be nice, I still need to experiment to see whether Script:Start() is called automatically or not after attaching it.

I've also witnessed halved FPS with a :Pause()'d emitter. I didn't report it as it was my first time using them and I thought I might be doing it wrong. Will try it again tonight.

I've experienced this as well, with Lua. I didn't go so far as to check why it was being released when I had manually AddRef()'d it, but this describes it perfectly.

That is C++ code, you are using Lua. Changing -> to : fixes your initial error, but you'll get another error once it gets to std::string I haven't seen the god ray script but I think this is what you need: camera:SetKeyValue("godray_pos", Vec3(-x, -y, -z));

How do I actually do it in the shadow shader since it doesn't have a fragment shader just a vertex shader? As far as I know (and I don't know much about shaders) you can't discard during the vertex shader. EDIT: Should have tried it before posting. I added a very basic fragment shader to it and it works. I copied the fragment from the regular shader and took out everything I didn't need, leaving me with: #version 400 //Uniforms uniform sampler2D texture4;//noise map //Inputs in vec2 ex_texcoords0; in vec4 ex_color; void main(void) { float NoiseV = texture(texture4,ex_texcoords0).x; //Lookup the pixel and grab its red (x) value float InvAlpha = 1-ex_color.a; //Invert range from 0...1 to 1...0 if (InvAlpha==1) InvAlpha = 1.1; //Change 1 to 1.1 so < is true if (NoiseV<InvAlpha) discard; //If the red value of the pixel is less than the alpha value of the model, discard } And added to the vertex part: //at thte top in vec2 vertex_texcoords0; out vec4 ex_color; out vec2 ex_texcoords0; //after entitymatrix_ *= animmatrix; ex_texcoords0 = vertex_texcoords0; ex_color = vec4(entitymatrix[0][3],entitymatrix[1][3],entitymatrix[2][3],entitymatrix[3][3]);

This is what I'm thinking, still need to actually test it: float NoiseV = texture(texture4,ex_texcoords0).x; //Lookup the pixel and grab its red (x) value //Assuming texture4 is the noise texture float InvAlpha = 1-ex_color.a; //Invert range from 0...1 to 1...0 //(Better logic might negate the need for this) if (InvAlpha==1) InvAlpha = 1.1; //Change 1 to 1.1 so < is true //(Better logic would negate the need for this) if (NoiseV<InvAlpha) discard; //If the red value of the pixel is less than the alpha value of the model, discard EDIT: This is what I get from the above code, not sure what to do about the shadow the model casts (I'm not good with shaders but I try where I can)

That's what I thought on first reading that, but if the built in rand() function is anything like the first few google results then it will return a the same value for the same input. Since the noise is greyscale you just take the R G or B value of the pixel and use that as your noise. To get the value of the pixel you need to pass your texture into the shader and look it up the same way it (for example) looks up the diffuse texture. I'm keen to give this a try myself once I get home, will post the results if you haven't got a solution working.

This is my basic explanation, hopefully I'm not too wrong. When the image is drawn the color of each pixel is multiplied against the color set by context->SetColor. So for example if pixel in the image is white (RGB = 255,255,255), and the context color is white (1,1,1), then they get multplied together. R := 255 x 1.0 = 255 G := 255 x 1.0 = 255 B := 255 x 1.0 = 255 If the context color was black (0,0,0) everything would be multiplied by 0: 255x0=0 If the image pixel as red (255,0,0), and the context color was 50% grey (0.5,0.5,0.5) the final color would be a darker red (127,0,0) R := 255 x 0.5 = 127 G := 0 x 0.5 = 0 B := 0 x 0.5 = 0 And the final example, the reason you would use this feature, is if your image was white you can use the context color to color the image. So, image is white (255,255,255) and say context color is orange (1,0.47,0) R := 255 x 1.0 = 255 G := 255 x 0.47 = 120 B := 255 x 0.0 = 0

SetBlendMode(5) does it

Ah ok, thanks for the info. No idea how I managed to post this in Game Art. Oops.

I haven't tried these functions myself, I was just browsing the documentation when I came across them and was hoping someone could clarify. The Steamworks class seems to provide functions for working with game controllers and I assume you have to initialize Steamworks for it to work. If distributing your game outside of Steam does this mean you can't access the controllers? Or do I have it wrong and you can access the controller functions without initializing it? EDIT: Well, that page says it itself "Note: Steamworks must be initialized before using the Steam Controller functions." So, is there a way to access joysticks/controllers (from Lua?) without Steamworks? MORE EDIT: After looking at this I realise I might have misunderstood, Steamworks functions are only for working with actual Steam Controller... I jumped the gun and assumed it was any kind of controller.

Ok thanks, that's easy enough. But is it not possible to do it with just one shader applied with context:SetShader before drawing all my GUI? I'm hoping to have it be able to switch on and off. I could do it by editting both those shaders as you've said and adding a uniform value to toggle it on and off but from what I've read it's not a good idea to do boolean things like that in shader code? EDIT: For now I've gone ahead and done that - editted them and added a uniform value that will be 1 or 0 for whether greyscale is active, then used mix() to get the output. //in drawimage.shader //added a uniform uniform int GrayscaleActive; //changed main loop void main(void) { vec4 color = drawcolor * texture(texture0,vTexCoords0); float l = color.r * 0.2126 + color.g * 0.7152 + color.b * 0.0722; vec4 lumCol = vec4(l,l,l,color.a); fragData0 = mix(color,lumCol,GrayscaleActive); }

I'm trying to use context:SetShader before drawing my GUI but it requires a different kind of shader I guess, if I use the same grayscale shader then the whole context becomes invisible (transparent?). I'm really inexperienced with shaders and have only really copy and paste-editted them up to this point. I've tried modifying some of the default 'Drawing' shaders but haven't been able to get anything that just modifies the colour of what I draw to the context - I always end up with either a solid block of color, an unrelated image over the top, or nothing. The default grayscale shader is easy to enough to understand, I just don't know why it won't work when used for context:SetShader

I'm using the default grayscale posteffect shader to make everything black and white, but this doesn't affect anything drawn during Script:PostRender(context) (eg, red text is still red). Is it possible to make a shader apply after drawing takes place? Or any solution easier than manually changing the colour/textures of GUI elements - ideally more advanced shaders could also be used. This script shows my problem. You can put this script on any entity and link it to a camera, you will see everything is greyscale except the text 'Always red'. Script.Camera = nil --entity "Camera" Script.Enabled = true --bool "Enabled" function Script:Start() self.WasEnabled = -1 end function Script:_Enable() self.Camera:AddPostEffect("Shaders/PostEffects/grayscale.shader") end function Script:_Disable() self.Camera:ClearPostEffects() end function Script:UpdateWorld() if self.Enabled~=self.WasEnabled then if self.Enabled then self:_Enable() else self._Disable() end end self.WasEnabled = self.Enabled end function Script:PostRender(context) context:SetBlendMode(Blend.Solid) context:SetColor(1,0,0,1) context:DrawText("Always red", 5, 5) end EDIT: Right after posting this I found context:SetShader, it sounds like what I want. And the forum ruined my code indentation

Thanks very much everyone, context:Screenshot() works perfect, just have to make sure the filename is named with .tga extension. UPDATE: If you call Screenshot() with no filename and you are using Steam, it puts it in your Steam screenshots folder (awesome) !

I've managed to get a Buffer (and Texture) filled with the current screen. I want to write it to a file, so my game will have a builtin screenshot feature. Leadwerks 2 apparently had a function SaveBuffer which would do exactly what I want, but as far as I can tell it doesn't exist or has been renamed to something else. So, before I try to manually write the bytes to a file, does anyone know if there is a current function for writing a buffer to an image file? (Or maybe there is complete function for taking a screenshot that I don't know about?) EDIT: How do I even get individual values out of a buffer?

I've gotten render to texture working using this code http://leadwerks.wikidot.com/wiki:render-to-texture-security-cam but the Buffer functions are nowhere to be found in the current documentation. Unless I missed it, in which case please point it out Buffer isn't even highlighted in the script editor. I wasn't sure whether to post this in Bug Reports as it's not to do with the program itself...

Does it have to be run in debug mode for that? EDIT: I just tried it and I understand now.

I'm unsure if you actually can change the 'pivot point' of an object, what I do is create a Pivot entity and then drag parent my objects to that. You can then rotate that Pivot and all it's children will rotate correctly.

I get it now, it only has an effect on projects being launched from the editor. os is still available when the .exe is ran manually. Thanks again.

Thanks. Is there any reason I would want to keep it on?

One thing I would like to see is a better stack trace for Lua errors. So when there is an error it doesn't just tell say which file/function, but also shows the chain of function calls leading up to that.

Definitely agree. I started moving them ino/parenting to a pivot so they were all grouped, but then any new ones still have to be moved again.