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Well that exactly the problem ^^. I guess the prefab system need to be worked on in the future. It's a little sad, because if I could rely on them, they would be a great addition to my workflow. Yeah thanks for the input, I guess I have to come up with my own system. For what ever reason I actually enjoy using my brain, solving such problems, instead of just having the feature working fine haha

Ever since I had struggle with the prefab system. I wonder if I am doing something wrong, if it just has bugs or if it just lacks documentation... Here a few examples of what I have encountered so far: 1. I just set up a test scene to analyize the prefab behavior. So I attached a few csg boxes, a light and a particle emitter to another csg box. When I save the parent box as prefab so far everything works as expected, but then when I change the child boxes physics to prop and set a mass for them, thing are getting weird. If I am in the editor and drag the prefab from the asset window into the scene, everything still works as expected, but if I load the prefab ingame by script, the child boxes just don't appear. 2. Sometimes pivots parented to an Prefab seem to not save position. They randomly have an offset, although I set their local position to 0,0,0 3. Especially particle emitters which are prefabs have a weird behavior. They begin to emit diffrently (they burst instead of emitting smoothly), although I think this only happens in the editor viewport and not when you start your game 4. I also encountered that my code did not work as expected anymore, when using them on prefabs. There seem to be some reference error. I just worked on destroyable objects and when I place them as normal objects not beeing prefabed everything works fine, but if I save them as prefab and place them in the scene, everything is messed up. The destroyed version of the object always spawns on the position of the first placed prefab and the old, intact version does not get removed. I guess I have a clue how to work around this, but the weird thing is it works fine when the object is no prefab. So the point is I just don't know where the error is, it are these small things which make me struggle working with Leadwerks sometimes, when it does not work as expected and you can't really find the error. Maybe I am just missing some information on how to use prefabs and how to not use... Thanks for any helpful advice

Actually I had the idea to use blenders physics system, pre-calculate the destruction and bake it into an animation. My first test actually worked pretty good, but at the moment its a lot of work to set this system up for an object. It also means the fragments have no collision and you can walk through them. I will try the debris collision setting. By the way if you have any idea how I could make the fragments dissolve smoothly after a while (to the release them) feel free to tell me. Thats why I asked for an alpha material/dissolve effect. Maybe I can scale them down over time...

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Well ok. Unforunately I am not very familiar with shaders yet. Thats a skill I need to learn any time soon ^^. Can't wait to see the new Turbo Engine! Keep it up, looking good.

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They are models, but I the next installment I will move over to CSG brushes for better performance. The level also needs pretty long to load. I think the best way is to go for a good mixture of CSG & models like you can read here: https://www.leadwerks.com/learn?page=

Hi, I wonder how I would achieve a dissolve effect, or simply make an material disappear over time. I want to for smoothly making objects disappear before they get removed. I found this, but don't know how to use it: https://www.google.de/search?q=leadwerks+dissolve+shader&rlz=1C1GCEA_enDE754DE754&oq=leadwerks+dissolve+shader&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.7455j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 I tried to apply the shader to an material and called material:SetColor(1, 1, 1, x-0.05) on update. But nothing seems to happen. Also if I try to decrease the alpha value of an material nothing happens, only if it reaches a value below 0.5 then the model with the material appears. So how to set up an material where I can seamlessly adjust the transparency? Thanks for your input!

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I have a similar problem, thanks for your solution

Ok with the new converter Leadwerks keeps the normal settings. Awesome! Thanks @Josh and @AggrorJorn !

@AggrorJorn Ah thanks ok alright then I will try this out. I though he meant the plugin itself not the built in leadwerks converter, as it I have trouble with the Leadwerks Blender plugin not with an fbx file which has problems with converting.

You mean this ?:

Hi, I have this issue since I use Leadwerks and it is really annoying. Maybe you know a solution. So I used this house model to show my problem. This is my model in Blender (Shading mode set to flat) This is how it looks if I export as FBX and import into Leadwerks: To make it appear correctly I always have to recalculate the normals in Leadwerks, to make it appear flat. If I watch my exported fbx in a model viewer however it looks just like in blender. The same appears for the offical Blender Leadwerks exporter. I tried everything to make this work but nothing helps. Maybe you have ideas on this. I tried sharp edges, various export settings, auto smooth groups activated and deactivated... It really destroys my workflow to recalculate normals every time! However, when I am not wrong I remember having models, which have correct normal data applied when imported to Leadwerks, so maybe its a problem with Blender, or am I missing some important settings? Thanks for your input! Markus from Phodex Games

Can't wait to work with the new engine. I believe the new version will put Leadwerks from beeing a very solid engine to an really great one! Keep it up

Ok, I guess I will find my way, as always thanks anyways Josh, game me some new ideas!

Thank you for the code snippet, but I am actually using lua and the method "SetClearMode" does not exist. I also tried it with C++, although I am not into it yet and have some trouble, but Visual Studio does not recognize the SetClearMode method either... also do I have to set it on camera 2 and 1? Because in your code its just camera. I would expect it to look like this in lua, maybe I did something wrong? local camera = Camera:Create() camera:SetClearMode(Buffer.Depth)

Ok but how to exactly do this? Could not find it in the documentation yet. I am using the code snippet from here to play around with it: https://www.leadwerks.com/learn?page=API-Reference_Object_World_GetCurrent How can I tell both cameras to render at the same time? I tried camera:SetClearColor(0, 0, 0, 0)...

Hi, I once was using an engine where you could set up scenes like leadwerks uses maps. It was possible to load multiple scenes at once and also have multiple cameras set up in those scenes. That came in handy for preventing first person hands to clipping through walls, or was used to set up UI, as in that engine you needed a camera to display UI. I wonder if something similar is possible in Leadwerks and how I would achieve it. Do I need to create multiple worlds? And how to load two seperate maps at the same time? What I want to do is creating a new UI system based on 3D models, therefore I need a camera to display them and I would like to overlay that scene, having an seperate camera & lightning. Would also be awesome for split screen. Any solutions or suggestions? Thanks for your input! Markus from Phodex Games

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Ok I found the solution myself. You need to do the following: local image = gui:LoadImage("path to texture") -- local button = Widget:Button("", 0, 0, 1024, 768, gui:GetBase()) button:SetString("style","Push") button:SetImage(image) But then the image appears in the middle of button. I fixed that by changing the drawing command inside the button.lua script. Still I wonder how it is possible to give my new button an automatic hover effect (e.g button is gets brigther) and disable the default rendered rectangle. I also wonder how to change the appearance of the UI, give it a new design etc. This topic is poorly documented, although the system is pretty cool and easy to work with. Would love to get some more input, tutorials etc.

Hi, I am currently trying to learn the leadwerks GUI, to be able to improve my own system. I already managed to display a button and make it print something on click. So my question is, how is it possible to load an image and apply it to an button instead of the default greay appearance? If found that there seems to be such a functionality inside the button.lua: --Draw image if present local image = self.widget:GetImage() if image~=nil then local imgsz = image:GetSize() gui:SetColor(0.7) gui:DrawImage(image,pos.x+(sz.x-imgsz.x)/2,pos.y+(sz.y-imgsz.y)/2) end I also found that "Image:Load(string path, GUI gui)" exists and should work loading an image from a texture. However Image:Load() does not seem to work in lua. I would have expected that applying an image would work like this: function Script:Start() local gui = GUI:Create(context) local guiScale = gui:GetScale() local panel = Widget:Create("", guiScale * 100, guiScale * 100, guiScale * 600, guiScale * 600, gui:GetBase(), "Scripts/GUI/Panel.lua") self.textField= Widget:TextField("text", guiScale * 15, guiScale * 10, guiScale * 150, guiScale * 20, panel) self.testButton = Widget:Button("button", guiScale * 175, guiScale * 10, guiScale * 80, guiScale * 20, panel) --APPLY THE IMAGE! local image = Image:Load("Image.tex") -->Error Method "Load" does not exist for "Image" self.testButton:SetImage(image) end function Script:ProcessEvent(event) if event.id == Event.WidgetAction then if event.source == self.testButton and event.data == 0 then System:Print("Clicking") elseif event.source == self.testButton and event.data == 1 then System:Print("Hovering!") end end end function Script:UpdateWorld() while EventQueue:Peek() do local event = EventQueue:Wait() self:ProcessEvent(event) end end So how can I achieve that my button uses an image instead of the standard rect to be drawn? Thanks in advance Markus from Phodex Games

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Good luck with attracting more people to buy stuff through the website. Its always a good thing to stay independent and I prefer the marketplace here over the steam workshop, although I do not really use it at all.

That is very cool! Actually I never used the old asset shop, it was very clunky had bad loading times, at least for me and it just was no much fun to browse around in it. I think a good asset store is very important and I think this is one of the reasons why Unity is so popular as their asset store is filled with high quality assets. Now this just need some more good content