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I'm sorry but that's just wrong. You can do this ever since 2.71 ( current stable is 2.76 ) Baking in general can be a hazzle to set up, this addon (no affiliation) https://cgcookiemarkets.com/all-products/baketool/ Makes it a breeze - I know a lot of people dont like the idea of paying for addons to free software, but unless your time is worthless it paying for it self

If this is on linux what your seeing is to be expected, the bug will hopefully be fixed in the not too distant future

Animated shaders?

Animated texture and particle effect

if your moving the camera just 1 px I'd not worry about parallax - more likely rounding errors may mean you end up with 9 identical images. Another solution could be to move the camera closer and do X seperate frames that each fit inside the original view cone - if that makes sense.

I don't see why your messing with camera projection and stitching ( unless you want to make panoramas ofcourse ) Have a look here; http://www.43rumors.com/ft5-e-m5-successor-has-sensor-shift-to-create-up-to-40-megapixel-images-on-the-fly/ Grabbing 9 screen shots shifted like in the above link should take 0.15s with a bit of extra time for post processing But maybe I'm missing something ?

This (free) program can help you make bump / normal / shine / etc maps from photos; http://awesomebump.besaba.com/ The latest version supports loading in you own mesh to display on / calculate from <3

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/blog/138/entry-1288-pushing-complex-lua-tables-from-c/ In the article I do show how to use the function but it's quite easy; (this is from a now abandoned UI kit for Leadwerks C++/Lua ) luaInterface::luaInterface(LeadwerksUI* _gui):gui(_gui){ //ctor typeMap guiObj={ {"loadCore",new luaMemberFunction<luaInterface,&luaInterface::loadCore>(this)}, {"loadLayout",new luaMemberFunction<luaInterface,&luaInterface::loadLayout>(this)}, {"findWidget",new luaMemberFunction<luaInterface,&luaInterface::findWidget>(this)}, {"findWidgets",new luaMemberFunction<luaInterface,&luaInterface::findWidgets>(this)}, {"removeWidget",new luaMemberFunction<luaInterface,&luaInterface::removeWidget>(this)}, {"showMouse",new luaMemberFunction<luaInterface,&luaInterface::showMouse>(this)}, }; luaTable *table=new luaTable(guiObj); table->push(); Leadwerks::Interpreter::SetGlobal("myGUI"); delete table; } This binds member functions to an lua table giving a faux object in lua Breakdown; new luaMemberFunction<luaInterface,&luaInterface::loadCore>(this) luaInterface - class name &luaInterface::loadCore - member function note the format, it's important this pointer to the actual instance you want the member function to be called on - in this case it's "this" because I wanted it to call it's own member functions but it could be any instance of the given class. I thougth about posting the actual functions I used above but they honestly do not make much sense so I cooked up a new one to show you the ropes; int luaInterface::findWidget(lua_State *L){ //I used a single macro for these lines as you need to write them often, I can post if if you like int argc=Leadwerks::Interpreter::GetStackSize(); if ( argc != 1 ) { std::cerr << "Wrong argument count for findWidget" << std::endl; Leadwerks::Interpreter::PushBool(false); //Put a the bool value false on the stack to let the user know he screwed up return 1; //This lets lua know that we returned 1 argument } std::string parameter1= Leadwerks::Interpreter::ToString(1); //or ToBool, etc depending on what parameter you expect. Leadwerks::Interpreter::PushBool(true); /*Look at the source for Leadwerks to figure out what types you can push - you can even return a complex lua table as outlined above */ return 1; /*once again tell lua that how many parameters we returned if you get this wrong you get crashes or memory leaks*/ } int luaInterface::hideMouse(lua_State *L){ assertArgc(!= 0, "hideMouse") //the first 6 lines of the other function rolled into a nice discrete macro //We dont expect any parameters gui->showMouse(false); //you can call any member function of the object even setting variables for later use return 0; //Nor do we return anything - tell lua the stack is empty } It may seem a little daunting at first but once you get the hang of it it's quite easy

It suggests that you either accidentally used uppercase for world (World) or that the variable "world" was not in scope.

& (ampersand if you want to google it ) has 2 functions in C++ When used during declaration of a variable it means said variable is a reference - that is any change made to it is made to the original also; When used infront of an existing variable it takes the address of the object ( effectively turning it into a pointer )

Not sure why but I'm getting a "serious sam" vibe from that screenshot

It appears that this is due to user error, specifically you apparently need more geometry between smooth shading and hard edges - more on this here http://www.svartberg.com/tutorials/article_normalmaps/normalmaps.html

You cannot have non ASCII characters in the path - this according to the developer is a feature

This is a non issue - you can expose C++ methods to lua, the engine does this each frame already - not at problem If you search the forums and blogs here at leadwerks.com you will find atleast 3 different methods of doing it. If you mean the server code then yeah properly better to keep that in C++, but gameplay logic as such is idealy suited for a high level language such as lua

Adding enemies to Leadwerks comunity project 3: [Work in Progress] Shown in cycles renderer as I'm having a bit of an issue getting it imported correctly into Leadwerks

Seems it *is* a normals thing as can be seen here; The normals in blender are correct how ever recalculating them in leadwerks produces well uhm.. Above: plain imported, even here the shadows are well buggy Above: After calculate normal: "Average normal", half the faces are flat shades the other half are smooth ( split at 180* ) If I use angular treshold the entire thing becomes smooth shaded and no amount of Average normal will change that - the shadow anormaly disappeares after this. after recalculating the normals the mdl file changes size from 10.5 to 6.4 kb Sadly while this seems to work on the very very sparse geometry - it does not work on the big one, not only does it completely screw up the surface normals giving the model a half smooth half flat shaded look the shadow anomaly is still there

I've been getting a bug where the scene tab crashes entirely and will just show the last tab used instead of it's contents - the bug survives changing projects. I have how ever been reluctant to report the bug because it cannot reliably reproduce it ( out side of use leadwerks for development/model testing while frequently switching projects and maps ) Is there any file that can I can provide that would help track down the bug, or any debug switch, etc ?

Test completed - getting the exact same thing on windows ( AMD e450 APU )

There are no extra vertices, all the normals are poiting outside ( the black triangle is another shadow artifact ) I decided to try and narrow the problem down - and slim my file down at the same time; my "robot" is now reduced to just the upper body = 64 faces ( 32 quads in a circle and a top triangle fan = 96 tris ) And I still get it those shadow artifacts; I then decided to remove the uncertainty of the used material and used the default blue developer material Attached is the both the mdl and blender file - I used blender 2.71 exported with blender exporter commit b75d03f1027b89e5adcffd0d9a41d283a5d03794 ( 20 Feb 2015 ) I'll update my blender version once I find a working PPA ( irie stopped updating last year ) but I kinda doubt that has any effect I'll install steam on the windows test comp and try there to see if i get the same results forum-thingy.zip

That the self shadows have blinds in them that look like z fighting. If you are not seeming this it may be a Linux/ATI issue

Figured out why your material didn't show the shadow artifact - your using shadow+animated shader which completely removes shadows from non animated objects. I've attached a new version for perusal - it's the same as above but sans the confusion of file formats and shaders, if anyone care to try and help me fix it. Spider turret.zip

Try filling a large kanvas with the texture in Photoshop and then scale it down -you will see a similar effect depending on scaling used

Ms ergonomic keyboard (4000/something or other) + razor something with way to many buttons.. But I got tired or replacing the Logitech MX ever 3 months. I just cannot use a n ergonomic/ split keyboard any more - hell I usually bring my own keyboard when doing consulting work

You are using different shaders than me, that must be it - thanks

And you have shadows turned on in the new material? Could you show me the settings?