[Ultra Engine testing]

Looks good.  Just the logo issue for me too.  I've got Windows 10.

[Release on Steam vs Website or Both?]

Curious as to what peoples thoughts are on this.  Should releasing your game on Steam be the best and only choice you should make as an indie?  Or should you aim to get your game out on as many platforms as possible including selling it on your own website?  Steam takes a large cut out of your revenue - 30% if I remember correctly.   But can Steam do more for your game than a good marketing campaign can do?  And is their marketing of your game actually worth 30% of the sales - if that's even what they do - what do they do?  My Wife has just started her own marketing company so naturally I'm thinking it'd work out better for me to ditch Steam and just do a website that handles all the sales/updates and forum discussions.  I can see this being better value for money due to the website running costs and marketing costs being near a set amount per year regardless of sales - but the best and right choice?  Not sure yet.  What do you think?

[How Gta 5 traffic system was made?]

I've been waiting for ultra for my project, Leadwerks wasn't powerful enough for its scope.  I've been here for at least 13 years and the community here is the best I've seen.

[Release date for ultraengine 5?]

I'd be happy to use Ultra in it's current state... 

[Vec3::Forward() and Vec3::Up() function calls.]

I think it's worth adding.  It's much nice to type Vec3.UP than Vec3(0.0,1.0,0.0). 

[Vec3::Forward() and Vec3::Up() function calls.]

Yeah this would be very useful.

[How Gta 5 traffic system was made?]

I never played GTA5, but perhaps spline paths and procedural placement was used?

[Texture::GetPixels()]

I thought it would be.  I'll see if I can do what I want some other way.

[Texture::GetPixels()]

I want to get the pixels from the render target of a camera per frame and do some stuff to it.  I'm doing it in Leadwerks but it's a bit slow with an extra camera or two.

[Texture::GetPixels()]

Or can a texture be converted to a pixmap?  I need to perform some image processing on the CPU so using a shader wouldn't work.

["Index out of range" when using RemoveItem]

Is the program somehow executing the delete event when you click add?  Use a break point on bakerlist->RemoveItem(1) to find out.  If it is, then after adding one item, its trying to remove index 1 which doesn't exist yet.  Not sure why it's trying to remove it though.

 

If you're trying to remove the last element, check if the element you want to remove actually exists in the array.

int size = bakerlist->GetSize();
if (size != 0){
	bakerlist->RemoveItem(size - 1);
}

(Not sure what the right syntax is for the widget your using)

[MSVS community 2022]

Just installed it myself.  Works fine so far and seems faster too.

[animation]

Try SetAnimationFrame().

[camerapick]

Also, it would probably run a lot faster in a C++ project.  And Release mode would be faster than Debug.

[camerapick]

It is expensive per frame.  Usually like you say you would only call it when you click the mouse.  I've never done this - but you could cast the mouse position into a 3d position and then detect if a ray from that position going in the direction that the camera is facing would intersect the AABB of the objects in the scene.  It would involving looping through every object (you may find a way to reduce the amount you go through depending on what your trying to find) but I'm not sure how must faster it could be, if at all.

If your trying to detect a specific object you could add those objects too a list at start-up and do an AABB intersecting of that list only.  It won't be as accurate as a pick but it may point you in the direction you need.

[MSVS community 2022]

I'm using 2019 at the moment.  I haven't heard anything about 2022 but I don't see why it shouldn't work.

[Texture::GetPixels()]

Could it be retrieved from the GPU somehow?  Maybe through a shader uniform?

[Texture::GetPixels()]

Now that I have this working I want to get the pixels of the texture rendered from the camera...

 

//Setup
auto texture = CreateTextureBuffer(512, 512);
auto cam2 = CreateCamera(world);
cam2->SetRenderTarget(texture);

//Loop
auto my_precious = texture->give_me_pixels()

 

I can see SetPixels() and SetSubPixles() but no GetPixels().  Can it be done yet?

[LE5 draw texture to screen?]

That did the trick, thankyou.

[LE5 draw texture to screen?]

I have a steam copy you gave access too ages ago.

[LE5 draw texture to screen?]

I'm using Ultra - trying to do something like this.

//Setup
auto texture = CreateTextureBuffer(512, 512);
auto cam2 = CreateCamera(world);
cam2->SetRenderTarget(texture);

auto panel = CreatePanel(0,0,512,512,ui);

//Loop
auto pixmap = ConvertToPixmap(texture->GetColorBuffer());???
panel->setPixmap(pixmap);

 

[LE5 draw texture to screen?]

How can a texture be drawn to the screen?  Does it first need to be converted into a pixmap and set onto a widget?

[SetRenderTarget no updating]

Got it to work with a buffer instead.

auto buffer = Buffer::Create(256, 256);

auto cb = Buffer::GetCurrent();

buffer->Enable();
cam->Render();

Buffer::SetCurrent(cb);

 

[SetRenderTarget no updating]

Just tried it with no success.

[SetRenderTarget no updating]

Its been a while since I tried something like this, the camera render draws to the screen but doesn't update as the camera moves.  Am I doing something wrong?  Or should I just draw to a buffer instead?

 

//c++ setup
auto cam = Camera::Create();
cam->move(0,1,0);
auto tex = Texture::Create(512, 512);
cam->SetRenderTarget(tex);

Map::Load("Maps/TestScene_001.map");//Just a ground plane,skybox and a few trees.  Primary camera in here.

//Loop
while (true) {
	if (window->Closed() || window->KeyDown(Key::Escape)) { return false; }

	cam->Move(0,0,0.01);

	Time::Update();
	world->Update();
	world->Render();

	context->SetBlendMode(Blend::Alpha);
	context->DrawImage(tex, 0.0f, 0.0f);
	context->Sync();
}