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Josh has a few members with EA.. but for the majority of us we're sitting in the wings...waiting.. Oh the demos we could already had made with a beta phase.

Also, you'll probably, at some point or another, want to align an object to the terrain slope. This line of code will save you a lot of hunting. entity:AlignToVector(terrain:GetNormal(x,z), 1, 1, entity:GetRotation(true).y)

It's quite easy to mimic the vegetation system in LE. To be honest it proved to be faster creating a pivot system with attached trees to it manually. The only downside is you dont get to use the easy paint-on feature in the LE editor, but with some code you can mimic the paint on feature in your real map and save out the locations to an external file. Doing so you'll have entity pointers to your trees to do as you please. I did this in an experimental project I worked on last year and it year and it had very positive results, actually I'm using the same developed system for my current project.

Make sure you have the correct pointer to the terrain object. -- Cycle loaded map for x=0,world:CountEntities()-1 do local entity = world:GetEntity(x) -- get terrain mesh if world:GetEntity(x):GetClass()==Object.TerrainClass then terrain=world:GetEntity(x) terrain=tolua.cast(terrain,"Terrain") end end Your code should be more like this : local y = terrain:GetElevation(x, z)

I started the Combat system today, finally some gameplay

Two new spawners added this week.. An area spawner, sorta like an environmental probe, but works off tint and hue, just drop the spawner into an area you want darkened, give it a hue and area distance and you have instant darkened area.. And my storm spawner, complete with puddles, sound effects and lens smudging. That about does it for this week, some more cool stuff planned for the upcoming week.

There's a place in our world where the Terrain, the Horizon and the Atmosphere all meet up.. and if it's done carefully... you'll never know it exists.

After a week long bout with having to change each 24hr cycle to match a weather pattern, I'm now glad to say that nightmare is behind me. I was able to implement storms and rain pretty easily after completing that task. This screenshot shows a small rain cloud, muddy built up areas, auto adjusting of the roughness levels per surface so it's only 'wetty' looking while its raining. Also havenphillp's reworked version of AO implemented in this screenshot as well, I absolutely love how his process picks up the dark areas and leaves the scatter clutter out of the picture.. Well done 'haven'. I'll do a small video later showing the rain, the screenshot doesn't demonstrate it clearly

I'm putting the finishing touches on a new grass system.

Been out of town most of the week, but was able to get some more environment stuff scripted in, I now have random wind gusts ( which the entire veg system reacts to ) and 3 lvls of random storms, a new cloud system that changes due to weather conditions and ambient of the hour of day. Layered real time clouds cast real time shadow to the terrain and entites below. More next week as we press along. !

Oh wait, I didn't realize the Vegetation system does not require a shader for diffuse/normal. Leaving that blank drops me down to the Veg shader in question. It took a lot of fiddling around with but I was able to add a uniform variable to the groundplants. veg shader and control it via code for stuff like wind force and direction.

I have a material which is used by the vegetation system, I need to get a handle reference to the Veg-shader in the material. GetShader() seems to return only the top most assigned shader, is there no way to get a ref handle to a deeper shader in the material ? Thanks for any advice.

PBR shader by Haven. I really like the level of detail it adds.

Overall level completion? About 10% . Github updated with everything from the video.

As some of you may know, havenphillp and myself have been working on a open world management system for an upcoming game jam in October. Thus far the system handles: 24 hour clock cycles ( day to night with smooth light, color and skybox transitions ) Storm system, cloud, light thunderstorms and all out deluge. Unlimited vegetation system with perimeter detection for stuff like grass squashing and path carving. Ability to cut down trees and or blow them up. Pathfinding system that handles map segments. True open-world management for 4k terrain maps. So far the results are positive, the speed and performance is there.. There's still much to do to the environment system, but little by little it's coming together. Next week: road laying tools !

Fixed! tyvm

I've built about 20 different physics controllers for various vehicles in Leadwerks over the years and never encountered much of a problem... until now. I started last week making a tractor controller but I've yet to get it working 100% It seems I get random no-error-readout crashes when I collide with other objects or change elevation on the terrain , no real reason to explain this behavior, I have a golf cart controller that works just fine on the same map. My question is do you think these odd sized wheels could be causing my problem ? and if where would I look to correct this and keep the wheel sizes the same ? PS: If I rotate the tractor to anything other than 0,0,0 then when the controller starts up the tractor starts bouncing out of control until LE crashes, placing the tractor back to 0,0,0 rotation then it starts up fine.

Time to share again, this week havenphillip and myself worked on ssao and a new grass veg system, complete with path carving and regrowth, I implemented a node tree type system, to handle only small areas of grass per render, in the end I was filling the 4k terrain map up with millions of grass blades with no real hit to speed, although I wasn't rendering millions at a time. That's it for this week, next week Muddy roads and forest dirt paths.

A little experiment I've built many physics controllers over the years, but never one for a tractor. Why? .... why not...