ZGameEditor forum

Hi Woowoo, I read all the tutorials on the main site, and messed with the demo projects, but i'm still struggling. Can you explain what you're struggling with and also what you're trying to create? Does anyone have any good resources for zge, and how did you personally learn to use it? Resources are...

Hi rrTea, Is there a simple way to go about it? I'd probably go with a quadratic or cubic spline, but curves are generally a personal preference kind-of-deal ( some people might prefer a B-Spline for instance ) :wink: Anyway, here's a simple quadratic example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding=...

Hi rrTea, Right now I don't really understand how it works so I'll have to study it a bit before trying to (eventually) use it seriously. The way that it works is that the screen is divided up in blocks of 8x8 pixels ( using modulo ). Each color component of those pixels are compared against a value...

Hi rrTea, Basically yes .. but there quite a few different dithering algorithms ( each with their own specific look ). Attached are two simple examples; one that simply reduces the output to 256 colors / 8-bit ( red and green are 3-bit while blue is 2-bit ) and another one that dithers the output us...

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The file is still there .. but Dropbox changed the way public files / links work in 2017. Anyway, here the new link

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Hi rrTea,

It's a rounding error. You should use the following ( instead of your clamp functions ) in your BitmapExpression ..


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Hi jinxtengu, You should get the view matrix of the camera, reset the translation components and multiply it with your desired offset vector. Here's a ( simple ) example .. press left-mouse-button to spawn a model. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <ZApplication Name=&...

Hi rrTea,

That's because int / float / string and even model ( a pointer to a Model instance ) are built-in data types, while Bitmap / File / Sound are component types.

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Hi guys, Another way to circumvent the problem is to run ZGameEditor as administrator. You can do this by right-clicking on ZGameEditor.exe ( or a shortcut to it ) and selecting "Run as administrator", or enabling that for the executable / shortcut by selecting "Properties" inste...

Hi jinxtengu, Shaders aren't necessary for what I'm trying to do, I'd be happy if it were a single color. I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but I'd describe the effect as looking like a projectile that spawns a continuous trail of shrinking objects in it's wake(without viable gap...

Hi jinxtengu,

With or without shaders? Also .. in case you have a clip from a game / movie / animation that has a similar effect, that would help too

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Hi jinxtengu, Usually you want to do it the other way around by calculating the velocity from the rotation values. Here's another quick demo .. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <ZApplication Name="App" Caption="ZGameEditor application" LightPositio...

Hi jinxtengu, One other thing, how can we adjust the rotational direction (adjust heading) so the bullet model is moving in relation to it's x,y,z velocity, and also (separately) in relation to the direction the camera is facing? It already does that .. but your cone mesh is pointing into the wrong*...

Hi jinxtengu, You made a couple of mistakes ... - Always use local variables when possible .. and otherwise never give components names that collide with properties ( in any scope ). So instead of putting 3 Variable components named "x", "y" and "t" in bulletmodel.Defin...

Hi jinxtengu, what I'm trying to do is project a newly spawned model in the direction that the camera is facing, but I can't quite work out the correct formula to do this. Here's a example for a FPS-esque setup ( mouse + WASD ) that uses camera rotation over the X and Y axes. The thing you want to t...