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Reason for using RakNet?

Wed, 16 May 2012 03:40:21 +0000

Is there a reason for using RakNet with Esenthel engine?

For example, some devs are using it instead of the default network comms...

"File" and "File.get<...>"

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:35:46 +0000

Hi to all!

Please can you help me with the following:

If i create File (to send it for example from server to client) and want to write into it Int, i use f.writeMem().putInt() or f.writeMem().putUInt(), but if i need something more than 2^32 as unsigned long long int how can i put 8-Byte integer and read it from file correctly?

Char sliding when trying to stop

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:09:20 +0000

Hi to all!

I understand, that this theme was discussed many times, but in all those topics there were no answer. When player moves to the dot (for example as in pathfind tutorial) after he reaches destination he slides a llitle. If we increase speed he slides a looot! and sometimes starts to roll (because he skips dest dot and he wants to return to it). There are some settings in PhysicsClass, as CONTROLLER_SLOPE_SLIDING_MODE, PHYS_MATERIAL with its friction, gravity, Actor damping, but all these settings DO NOT affect on the result.

Please, help me to prevent chars from sliding, i don't know what else to change(((

Edit on Windows... works on iOS and Android?

Tue, 15 May 2012 03:45:55 +0000

Hi,

Beginner question.

If I edit the worldspace on Windows. will the game show the worldspace on iOS and Android?

Bullet Physics on Windows

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:15:34 +0000

Hi!

Is there a way to user Bullet with Esenthel on Windows? Or is it supported for the other platforms only?

If it's not supported, are there any specific reasons or has it just never been implemented? I'd like to use Bullet, because AFAIK it can be calculated on ATi GPUs as well.

riggnix

STRUCTS

Sat, 12 May 2012 22:04:13 +0000

Let's say we have 2 STRUCTS, each one referencing the other. VS displays error C2065.

Code:

STRUCT (ExClass1, GuiObjs)

       static void someFunction()

       {

               ExWindow2.show(); <<<<<<<< error C2065: 'ExWindow2' : undeclared identifier

       }

}ExWindow1;

STRUCT (ExClass2, GuiObjs)

       static void foo()

       {

               ExWindow1.show();

       }

}ExWindow2;

How can I solve it?

Animation by deformmesh

Sat, 12 May 2012 11:47:39 +0000

Hi

I have a simple question: Is it possible to use deform meshes in EE for Animations? My pals used a deformmesh to animate my latest character, but if no matter wheter I import it as .obj or .dae, There is no animation I could see.

Also, when imported as Dae, the deformmesh looks weird, and the character is in the T-Pose instead of the initial animation pose.

Is it me doing something wrong, or are deform meshes simply not working in EE?

6 Degree's of Freedom

Fri, 11 May 2012 05:21:15 +0000

I recently started rewriting my character class. Originally it extended a Kinematic object. Now I'm extending the Character one.

Oddly, the code for manipulating the matrix in the kinematic does not work the same.

PHP Code:

//Kinematic
void Player::RotatePlayer(float pitch, float yaw, float roll)
{
    Matrix mat = matrix();
    Quaternion quat = Quaternion(matrix());
    quat.setRotate(pitch + (Cos(Time.time()) / 1500), yaw + (Sin(Time.time()) / 1500), roll);

    mat.setRotate(quat.axis(), quat.angle());
    mat.rotate(matrix().axis(), matrix().angle());
    mat.pos = matrix().pos;

    kinematicMoveTo(mat);
} 

PHP Code:

//Character
void Player::addRotate(float pitch, float yaw, float roll)
{
    Matrix mat = matrix();
    Quaternion quat = Quaternion(matrix());
    quat.setRotate(pitch + (Cos(Time.time()) / 1500), yaw + (Sin(Time.time()) / 1500), roll);

    mat.setRotate(quat.axis(), quat.angle());
    mat.rotate(matrix().axis(), matrix().angle());
    mat.pos = matrix().pos;

    matrix(mat);
} 

This causes the player to rotate in all six degrees with the Kinematic codes but the Character code does nothing. It doesn't even flinch. This is not the only variation of rotational codes I used on the Character object, all had little effect.

What am I doing wrong or should I do in order to get my object to rotate correctly?

Small info on the progress

Fri, 11 May 2012 04:35:09 +0000

As you can see the roadmap the mobile Editor's are nearing completion, hopefully I'll be able to release it soon (planning this month, though it's not guaranteed).
I'd like to make simultaneous releases for Android and iOS, so still need to add keyboard support for iOS.
Also there will be big SDK update this month, with many tweaks, fixes, improvements.

ListColumn color entries

Thu, 10 May 2012 17:51:42 +0000

Hi!

Please, help me to find out, how can i color cell text (not full rows, only words) in ListColumn? I can set font to ListColumn as default font, but i need to make only few cells of different color.

Accountant Looking to get involved in an MMORPG

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:12:18 +0000

Hey Community,

Im a qualified public Accountant in Australia, I am an avid and longstanding fan and player of the MMORPG genre (dating back to the T2A ultima online days), I enjoy Beta testing the new MMORPGS. That being said I would like to offer my skillset to work, casually, for free on a fantasy MMORPG. I see my reward as being able to get an understanding of the industry and the enjoyment of pursuing a hobby that

My skills could assist in things like:

Basic Financial and Management Accounting skills:

- Dealing with investors, marketers, setting up a kickstarter program;

- Advising how to allocate funds, calculating budgets or various business ratios, for example - calculating how many subscriptions or show acquisitions are needed per month to break even;

- Calculating the possibility for f2p options and estimating how the revenue stream will be brought in.

In game skills:

- Calculating in game skill, damage, possibility tables, for example crafting success rates

- Assisting with determining what prices vendor items are in game.

- Assisting to determining how hard skills are raised.

I understand there are more things that require consideration but any comments of the community would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
DubZio
Chris

Lake vs Ocean

Wed, 09 May 2012 10:44:45 +0000

Hi.
What is the difference between Lake and Ocean in the EE?
For example:
I have a very big world where the sea takes only 1/4 part.
What is better to use in this case? Ocean(for the whole map) or lake (for the 1/4 part)
Which variant will have better perfomance?

gubbins

Mon, 07 May 2012 19:48:32 +0000

Is there any type of gubbins tools? SO when you client gets armor, it know where to place it, or does this all have to be done in code? with bone merging?

Extending gui objects

Mon, 07 May 2012 17:26:22 +0000

Tutorials 09 - Extending Gui Ojbects.cpp and 10 - Extending and Loading Gui Objects.cpp aren't working for me. It seems that updade and draw functions from Button2 are never called.

Should I change or add something to get it working?

Model with different materials: best practices?

Mon, 07 May 2012 15:53:55 +0000

I'm pondering at the moment if I should consider creating models with as much of clothing/equipment as part of the model, or use as many separate meshes as needed...

Point is, I'm worried about the amount of draw calls for characters which has each part of its clothing as a separate mesh.
But on the other hand, I would really like to assign different material values for different objects (no subsurface scattering for clothing for example)...

Are there ways in Esenthel to "combine" objects with different materials somehow, or will they always need separate draw calls anyway because of different material settings anyway?

Anyone having expierience with the performance difference for characters with multiple meshes / materials? Do they slow down the engine enough to consider welding the parts / putting everything into a single material?

[iOS] Slider bug

Mon, 07 May 2012 15:16:39 +0000

If slider value is at 1.0 you cannot move it again by tapping on the button. The user is forced to tap on the bar to unlock it.

Sometimes it happens when slider is at 0.0

World Editor - Zoom

Mon, 07 May 2012 13:31:13 +0000

Currently for some reason in the World Editor, I can not zoom in far enough to see the models... When I place on of your models, and ensure my own are same size, they are too small to zoom it to really see. I must me missing something with the settings...

I am sure it has something to do with the scale of the world, but I don't know how to adjust that. When I open maps you created, obj's are much larger than when I plac an object in the same map..

Reflection Alpha channels

Mon, 07 May 2012 07:11:39 +0000

I try to add some reflections to an object, but I don't want the reflection to kill off all the color of the object, even though it should be fairly reflective. Therefore, I try to work with an alpha channel in all the images to make part of the reflection cube mab transparent.

This doesn't seem to work... now, am I doing it wrong or is it just not working for reflection cube maps?

As far as I know, white for opaque, black for transparent.... I tried both ways, no change visible.

EDIT: also, while testing it I noticed that I don't see reflections at all in my built game. What do I do wrong?

SQL - Getting all tables

Sun, 06 May 2012 17:47:00 +0000

Hello, SQL class is missing function allowing to get all table names, smth like:

Code:

Memc& getTables(); //returns container with table names

Useful when user doesn't know table name but know what data it contains

Best regards, PsychoBoy

Base on Game::Chr doesn't work

Sun, 06 May 2012 17:40:56 +0000

Recently we got caused to trouble by esenthels new updates.. now i have no idea what went wrong,
what i'm trying to do is a base STRUCT, with Game::Chr, to base some simple mobs on, before it worked, the mobs were moving with actionMoveTo(Vec(0,0,0));, Now... Nothing interesting happens..

Is there something wrong with my code?

//Monster.h

Code:

STRUCT (Monsters, Game::Chr)

//{

    Bool guard1;

    Str name ;

    virtual void create(Game::ObjParams &monster);

    virtual Bool update();

    virtual void save(File &f);

    virtual Bool load(File &f);

    Monsters();

};

//Monster.cpp

Code:

Monsters::Monsters()

{

}

void Monsters::create(Game::ObjParams &monster)

{

    super::create(monster);

    Bool guard=false; // set base false

    guard1=false; 

    if(Param *par=guards.findParam("name" ))

         name =par->asText(); // Get name for visual testing

     for(Game::ObjParamsPtr cur=&monster; cur; cur=cur->base())

         if(CChar *monster1=Game::Objs.name(cur))

         {

            if(Contains(monster1, "Monster"))

            {

             guard=true; //monster is now found, so turn Guard to true,

             guard1=true; //Guard1 made true,

            }

         }

    if(guard)//Set animations for it

    {

        sac.run=&cskel.getSkelAnim("");

        sac.walk=&cskel.getSkelAnim("");

        sac.stand=&cskel.getSkelAnim("");

        speed=10;

    }

    move_walking=true;

}

Bool Monsters::update(){

   if(super::update())

   {

    if(!action) // if not performing any action

    {

        actionMoveTo(Plr->pos()); // Make it move to player position

        ragdollEnable();// Test if the base even works, if you can run through it, success.

    }

    return true;

   } 

   return false;

}

void Monsters::save(File &f)

{

   super::save(f); // default save

   f.putStr(name); // save custom parameters

}

Bool Monsters::load(File &f)

{

   if(super::load(f)) // if default load was successful

   {

      f.getStr(name); // load custom parameters

      return true;    // return success

   }

   return false; // return failure

}

//Game.cpp

Code:

Game::ObjMemx Chrs;

      Game::World.init()

          .setObjType(Chrs, OBJ_CHR)

//Draw the name

   FREPA(Chrs)

   {

    if(Dist(Plr->pos(),Chrs[i].pos())
    {

            TextDS NPCRED, NPCTITLE;

            NPCTITLE.color = YELLOW;

            NPCTITLE.scale /= 1.5;

                NPCRED.color = CYAN;

                NPCRED.scale /= 1.5;

                Monsters  &Mob=Chrs[i];         

              Vec2 screen;

        if(PosToScreen (Mob.pos()+Vec(-0.1,4,0), screen))

        {   

            D.text(NPCTITLE, screen, Mob.Title);

        }

    if(PosToScreen (Mob.pos()+Vec(-0.1,3.5,0), screen))

    {

            D.text(NPCRED, screen, Mob.name);

    }

      }

   }

I appreciate that you read through this, and i hope you have an answer with me.. The code is 100% working, i just don't know why it doesn't move with actionMoveTo, and doesn't play stand animation either..

I tried enabling the ragdoll, and that seemed to work, then i could run through it.. i tried to change position of it manually and that worked..

Please help me!